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The articles collected in this volume encompass the outcomes of the
conference "Media Convergence - Konwergencja Mediow -
Medienkonvergenz", held at the Jesuit University "Ignatianum" in
Cracow in March 2011. The Conference was organized by the Chair of
Media and Social Communication of the Institute of Cultural
Studies, founded in 2005. The aim of this interdisciplinary meeting
of scholars from European academic centers was an attempt to answer
the question what the phenomenon of convergence really is with
regard to media, and how the permeation of media phenomena
influences contemporary culture. The two-day debate included
thematic blocks on literature and art, film, education, theater
communication, and media communication. The interdisciplinary
character of research is also the "guiding idea" of cultural
studies at the Jesuit University "Ignatianum" in Cracow.
This is the first volume concerned with the phonological typology
of syllable and word languages, based on the model of a complex,
multi-layered and hierarchically structured phonological system.
The main typological claim is that the phonetic and phonological
make-up of a language depends on the relevance of the prosodic
categories. In previous research, the syllable and the phonological
word have already proved to be typologically important. The
contributions in this volume discuss theoretical questions and
address issues such as the variable structure of the phonological
word, the interplay between phonetics and phonology as well as the
effect of a language's phonological make-up on its morphology or
lexicon. The volume provides detailed synchronic and diachronic
analyses of (Non-)Indo-European languages which will serve as a
basis for further typological research.
The book takes up the subject of dictionary use from the
perspective of advanced learners. The study aims to explore the
effects of the use of a monolingual learner's dictionary on
students' performance in a complex comprehension task, i.e. the
task of interpreting fragments with modified idioms, which often
disrupt the fluent reading process. The theoretical part summarises
the results of lexicographic research in the field of receptive
dictionary use and discusses its methodological aspects. Moreover,
it introduces relevant elements of the reading theory and analyses
the nature of idiomatic expressions, their transformations in
particular, from a psycholinguistic point of view. Finally,
problems connected with the presentation of idioms in monolingual
learner's dictionaries are highlighted. The major, empirical part
reports on an experiment, whose aim was to find connections between
the consultation process, the way of presenting lexicographic
information on idioms, and comprehension scores. The results reveal
a mildly positive influence of the monolingual learner's dictionary
on reading comprehension performance. Among the reasons for
underachievement were misinterpretation of entries and insufficient
processing of dictionary information in context.
The subject of this volume is the far-reaching phonological change
which the German language has gone through during its history and
which has led to a fundamental typological reorientation of the
language. Whereas Old High German was clearly assigned to the
typological pole of syllable languages, Modern German has developed
into a pronouncedword language that disregards the syllable. With
the help of this typological model, all phonological changes can be
described far more adequately than ever before. After introducing
the concepts of syllable andword language, the volume moves on to
describe the phonological-typological changes which have taken
place in the history of the German language. Distinguishing
features of this volume are its comprehensibility and numerous
examples.
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