Programme
Section 1:
Computer, corpus-based, and multi-modal methods
10.30-11.00 Anna Cichosz
University of Łódź/Poland
Verb-initial declarative clauses in Old English and Old
High German translations: a corpus-based comparative
study
11.00-11.30 Jerzy Gaszewski
University of Łódź/Poland
Language corpora as sources of data in contrastive
analyses
Section 2:
Methods in the study of language acquisition, foreign language learning, and grammar
Hamad Aldosari
King Khalid University, Abha /Saudi Arabia
Saudi EFL teachers' perceptions of empirical research
applications to classroom practice
Valerie Bourdier
University of Paris/France
No problems or no problem? Special problems raised by the reference to absence in the sequences no+N-Ø and
no+N-s and their equivalents in French
11.00-11.30: coffee break.
Section 3:
Methods in the study of language varieties, communication, and discourse
Mirosław Bańko
University of Warsaw/Poland
Iconic effects in loanword adaptation
Michał Gołubiewski
University of Gdańsk/Poland
Airspeak: an example of a professiolect in uuse
11.30-12.00 Dylan Glynn
University of Paris VIII/France
The socio-cultural conceptualisation of feminity–corpus evidence for cognitive models
Dorota Lipowska
Adam Mickiewicz University/Poznań, Poland
Naming game as virtual experiment
12.00-12.30 Agnieszka Stępkowska
University of Social Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Second language acquisition in the canton of Zurich: the case study of English
Mahsn Majidy
University of London/UK
Social factors in variation of Arabic loanword
assimilation in Kurdish
Krzysztof Kosecki and Marcin Trojszczak
University of Łódź/Poland
Comprehension of non-literal aspects of signed communication by the hearing persons: a preliminary study based on empirical principles
Iryna Malynovska
National Academy of Sciences/Kiev, Ukraine
“Shuttle” methods in the analyses of metaphor in the
english philosophical discourse

12.30-13.00 Victoria Kamasa
Adam Mickiewicz Uinversity/Poznań, Poland
Corpus methods in critical discourse analysis
Elena Sarbash
Donetsk National University/Ukraine
Conceptualization of positive emotions in English and
Modern Greek
Jarosław Wiliński
University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, Siedlce/
Poland
A covarying collexeme analysis of the verb play and the
manner adjunct in the domain of soccer
15.00-15.30 Karolina Krawczak
Université de Neuchâtel/Switzerland and Adam
Mickiewicz University/Poznań, Poland
Shame, embarrassment, and guilt: corpus evidence for the cross-cultural structure of social emotions
15.30-16.00 Joanna Pawliczak
University of Łódź/Poland
Time metaphors in collocations of English–a corpus
based study and survey analysis
16.00-16.30 Jacek T. Waliński
University of Łódź/Poland
Instrumentality of fictive motion in coextension path expressions
13.00-15.00: lunch break.
Anna Sarzyńska
University of Wrocław/Poland
The influence of ambiguity tolerance and intolerance on success in listening comprehension in a foreign
language–a report on an experimental study
Małgorzata Serafin
University of Wrocław/Poland
The influence of direct and indirect feedback on accuracy in the production of selected grammar
structures in written compositions
Ida Stria
Adam Mickiewicz University/Poznań, Poland
The study of the linguistic worldview in constructed languages on the example of Esperanto
16.30-17.00: coffee break.
Inna Serbez
Mariupol State University/Ukraine
Gender cognitive metaphor in the English and Ukrainian
literary discourse of the 19th and 20th centuries
Katarzyna Stadnik
Maria-Curie Skłodowska University/Lublin, Poland
Language in the context of human experience
Piotr Twardzisz
University of Warsaw/Poland
Measuring the metaphoricity of the discourse of
international affairs
18.00-18.30 Adrian Ziółkowski
Daniel Karczewski Marcin Sztomberski
University of Warsaw/Poland
Between-subject design and within-subject design in experimental philosophy
University of Białystok/Poland
Factors determining genericity in the light of
experimental studies of generics
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University/ Lublin, Poland
Are gamers speaking slang?
18.30-19.00 Barbara Konat and Konrad Juszczyk
Adam Mickiewicz University/Poznań, Poland
Multi-modal is multi-methodological: practical and theoretical problems in empirical studies of human
communication
Laura Valentin-Rivera
Texas Technical University, Lubbock/USA
Exploring Spanish grammar and writing development through paired interactions: a linguistic need in the
United States of America
19.30-22.00: gala dinner
Eva Malkova
Masaryk University, Brno/Czech Republic
Ellipsis and sentence fragments in the text of Ian
McEwan’s ‘Amsterdam’: their effect on meaning

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9.00-9.30
9.30-10.00
Section 1:
Methods in the study of language varieties and grammar
Stanisław Góźdź-Roszkowski
University of Łódź/Poland
Corpus approaches to the study of evaluative language
in institutional discourse
Jerzy Gaszewski
University of Łódź, Poland
Empirical quest for the main meaning of the Polish
preposition "po"
Section 2:
Methods in the study of communication and discourse
Richard Todd
Regents University – London, UK
University of London, UK
Speaker interaction and identification: unpicking Real-
world and forensic outcomes
Janusz Badio
University of Łódź/Poland
An experimental study of sentences in English-foreign and Polish-native written narratives
10.00-10.30 Naoki Nakamata
Kyoto University of Education/Japan
What is “conditional expression”? Insights from a lexical
approach
10.30-11.00 Narinthorn S. Behr
Sripatum University/Thailand
An acoustic study of vowels in eight varieties of Mon:
implication for different language change in the future
Andrzej Cieśluk
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University/Lublin, Poland
Grammatical gender Identification in eBay titles
Kamila Ciepiela
University of Łódź/Poland
Positioning analysis as an empirical tool for the
investigation of discursive identity performance
11.00-11.10: conference closing.
11.10-11.40: coffee break.
11.40-14.00: a walk of Księży Młyn.
14.00-15.30: lunch.
Section 3:
Methods in the study of lexis and morphology
Natalya Savoiskaya
University of Santiago de Compostela/Spain
Specific universals: a contradictory issue
Luca Cilibrasi
University of Reading/UK
The use of reaction times in the study of language processing: evidence for different analysis of lexical and morpho-syntactic minimal pairs
Olga Berdina
Mariupol State University/Ukraine
Change of meaning of gradual verbs denoting colour in
English
Yuri Shin
Yonsei University/South Korea
When talk show hosts nod and bend: nodding and upper-body bending as discourse strategy on South
Korean television