The book presents an application of inductive and deductive research modes in an analysis of political discourse. The discussion is illustrated with text samples from inaugural addresses of US presidents and various speeches given by prominent NATO politicians. It is argued that both analytic approaches have their inherent inadequacies, which poses a need for an integrated research mode. Also, numerous observations are made about the rhetoric of the analyzed text types.

The volume brings togrether contributions form scholars ctiveint eh field of pronunciation teaching and those more concerned with theoretical phonetics and phonology. The foucs of the book is on English phonetics and phonology viewed and studied fromteh perspective of foreign learners, teachers and teacher trainersl. Contributiosn are divided into three sections: accents, speech and applications. The first section discusses a variety of issues related to accents: description of accents in Britain today, theoretical perspectives on accent study and the problem of reference accent in teaching. The main concern of the contributions in the second section is the context for phonetics and phonology teaching atthe university level and in teacher training with emphasis on awareness raising. The third section presents studies in interlanguage phonetics and phonology, speech processing and pronunciation teaching. Contents: John Wells: Accents in Britain todya--Joanna Przedlacka: Early New Estuary English? Its contemporary background--Dorota Glowacka: Yod-palatalisation in Englishin Natural Phonology--Przewmyslaw Ostalski: (Non) Rhoticity in optimality theory (categorical rules, free variation and fuzzy ranking of constrints)--Joanna Prezdlacka: Glottaling in the teenage sppech of the Home Counties--Janina Ozga/Anna Mankowska: Students' awarenss of the socio-symbolic values of RP-Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk: Conscious competence of performance as a key to teaching English--Jan Majer: 'In French is six millions docks.' Wher error, please?--Jp; amta Szpyra: In defence of 'practical' phonology--Ewa Waniek-Klimczak: Context for Teaching English Phonetics and Phonology--Jan Majer: Sick or seek?Pedagogical phonology in teacher training--Wlodzimierz Sobowiak: English speech in Polish eyes: What university students think about English pronunciation teaching and learning--Peter Roach: Studying rhythm and timimg in English speech: Scientific curosity, or a classroom necessity?-0-Visnja Josipovic: The Prosody of english spoken with a Croatian accent--Anna Baczkowsa: Intonation patterns and turn-taking--Eva Waniek-Klimczak: How to predict the unpredicatable-English word stress from a Polish prespective-Robert Lew: Differences in the scope of obstruent voicing assimilation in learners' English as a consequence of regional variation in Polish--Klementina Jurancic Petek: How to do ti to do it right(?) Is near native-like pronunciation teachable/learnable?--Cjros Defty/Barbara Nowak/Agnieszka Pietrzak: Teaching pronunciation to Polich primary and secondary school learniers of English--Natalia Mamul: Micro-narrativers in face-to-face interaction--Magdalena Deska: The perception fo English sounds by Polish speakers--Anna Baczkowska: Some issues concerning modular and connecttionist approaches to speech processing and production--Malgorzata Baran: The advantage of auditory perceivers and sharpeners in learning foreign language pronunciation--Kamila Ciepiela: Acquisition of the phonological system in childhood development aphasia.

This volume contains papers presented at the first international cognitive linguistics conference in Poland "Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2001, organized by the Faculty of Philology of the University of Lodz on 19-23 April 2001. A number of invited papers are also included. With this publication we intend to offer a survey of the problems taken up by Cognitive Linguistics today as well as some solutions. The leading themes are "interdisciplinarity, applicability and "research methodology in Cognitive Linguistics. The issue of interdisciplinarity has always been part and parcel of cognitive linguistic studies, in which different fields of science and humanities converge. This context creates a certain tension within the research methods used in CL analysis, some of which are dealt with in this volume. The applicability of CL research findings to diverse fields such as literature, culture studies, language education and others, involving a number of leading projects on the CL agenda, are also represented in the volume.