The Department of the History of English has the pleasure to announce that the 25th meeting of the HEL Reading Club will take place on Tuesday, May the 22nd, at 4.45p.m. in 612C. The paper to be discussed is:
Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons, Naturalness and the life cycle of language change
The Department of the History of English has the pleasure to announce that the 21st meeting of the Anglo-Saxon Texts Study Group will take place on Tuesday, May the 8th, at 6.15p.m. in 612C. The text for this week:
W imieniu organizatorów serdecznie zapraszamy na konferencje YLMP. Proszę pamiętać, że zwolnienie z zajęć dydaktycznych jest możliwe tylko dla osób zarejestrowanych na konferencje.
Integration and (Non)Representation of Migrants in Polish Media and the Polish Public Sphere
What is the media role in shaping the image of migrants in Poland? Are migrants adequately engaged by journalists to partake in newsmaking and comment on their situation? Those as well as wider questions on the role of the media in discourse on diversity and integration of immigrants in Poland was discussed during the seminar organized by the Institute of Public Affairs and School o English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Warsaw on May 18, 2012.
During the first part of the seminar the results of research carried out within the MEDIVA project were presented (Media for Diversity and Migrant Integration - Consolidating Knowledge & Practices Assessing Media across the EU). The aim of the project is to improve the capacity of the media to reflect the diversity of European societies and the mechanisms and processes of immigrant integration. Presentation of the project objectives and results were given by representatives of A. Mickiewicz University: dr. hab. Michał Krzyżanowski, dr. Artur Lipinski, prof. Małgorzata Fabiszak and Samuel Bennett, MA. Panelists focused their presentations mainly on the results of content analysis of Polish and foreign media and on indicators assessing the ability of Polish and other media to reflect diversity and promote integration. They also presented the scope of MEDIVA thematic reports (see below).
The second part of the seminar was devoted to the panel discussion, moderated by dr. hab. Michał Krzyżanowski from IFA, A. Mickiewicz University, with participation of prof. Michał Buchowski (A. Mickiewicz University), Justyna Seges Frelak (ISP), Jakub Janiszewski (Tok FM), dr. Joanna Fomina (Stefan Batory Foundation) and Myroslava Keryk ("Our Choice" Foundation). Experts pointed out various aspects of media impact on shaping the image of migrants in Poland, and thus on the course and dynamics of integration processes. They also emphasized the fact that interest in the situation of migrants among Polish journalists is relatively small. This situation is connected with the fact that “migration issues" in Poland are not a part of political agenda, and therefore do not attract much interest of public opinion and decision makers.
Furthermore, panelists repeatedly underlined the need to promote migrant success stories in the media and the positive aspects of their integration, for example with the local community. According to the current trend, Polish media either report on topics related to migration mostly in cases when the violation of their rights takes place or show migrants as individuals with a complicated legal situation and low financial status. That is why migrants are very often presented, and thus perceived, as victims. An important issue that emerged in the discussion was also the fact that media reports have impact not only on the perception of migrants by the Poles, but also on the self-perceptions of migrants by themselves, which is of profound influence on the process of integration. The discussion was.
• media content (what and how is presented in the news)
• media newsmaking/programme production practices (news filters for instance)
• media recruitment and employment practices (provisions for recruiting minority/migrant staff, careers of this staff, existence of glass ceiling)
• media training practices (on migrant reporting, diversity management)
The MEDIVA Project (Media for Diversity an Migrant Integration – Consolidating Knowledge and Assessing Media Practices across the EU) seeks to strengthen the capacity of the media to reflect the increasing diversity of European societies and thus foster a better understanding of immigrant integration processes at a time when social cohesion and integration policies are put to the test by an acute economic crisis. The project, financed by the European Commission from the European Fund for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals, is coordinated by EUI Florence (Coordinator: Prof. Anna Triandafyllidou) with Adam Mickiewicz University (School of English, PI: dr hab. Michał Krzyżanowski) acting as Polish partner institution and the Institute for Public Affairs as Polish collaborating NGO. For further info and project results, visit: http://www.eui.eu/Projects/MEDIVA/Home.aspx
On May 17th, 2012, dr hab. Michal Krzyzanowski (IFA UAM) presented and discussed the results of MEDIVA project in a very popular broadcast ‘Nisza’ hosted by Jakub Janiszewski on the nationwide radio station “TOK FM”. On May 18th, dr. Krzyzanowski was also interviewed about the project and wider issues related to media, migration and integration by the international Polish Radio’s External Service (Polskie Radio dla Zagranicy). Podcasts from the above broadcasts will be available on the websites of respective stations/broadcasts soon.
The MEDIVA Project (Media for Diversity an Migrant Integration – Consolidating Knowledge and Assessing Media Practices across the EU) seeks to strengthen the capacity of the media to reflect the increasing diversity of European societies and thus foster a better understanding of immigrant integration processes at a time when social cohesion and integration policies are put to the test by an acute economic crisis. The project, financed by the European Commission from the European Fund for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals, takes place between 2010 and 2012 and is coordinated by EUI Florence (Coordinator: Prof. Anna Triandafyllidou) with Adam Mickiewicz University (School of English, PI: dr hab. Michał Krzyżanowski) acting as Polish partner institution. For further info and project results, visit: http://www.eui.eu/Projects/MEDIVA/Home.aspx
Prof. Dr. Jonathan Culpeper
Lancaster University, UK
Schema theory and activity types: A holistic approach to analysing dialogue of plays and their effects
(Tuesday, 29 May, 11:30, Room 601 A)
Interpersonal conflict in real life and fiction in 'Scent of a woman'
(Wednesday 30 May, 17:00, Sala Senatu UAM)
Historical corpus linguistics meets historical pragmatics: Trials and tribulations
(Thursday, 31 May, 11:30, Room C1)
We would like to inform you that YLMP 2012, the student congress organized by WA, takes place on 25-27 May 2012. Participation for WA students and staff is free of charge. Please spread the news among your students.
The registration deadline has been extended until 9 May 2012 for WA participants only.
Also, please inform your students that we are recruiting members for the YLMP Helpers Team. The organizational meeting takes place on Friday, 27 April. As we need additional help, could you please encourage your students to attend?
We would like to inform you that YLMP 2012, the student congress organized by WA, takes place on 25-27 May 2012. Participation for WA students and staff is free of charge. Please spread the news among your students.
The registration deadline has been extended until 9 May 2012 for WA participants only.
Also, please inform your students that we are recruiting members for the YLMP Helpers Team. The organizational meeting takes place on Friday, 27 April. As we need additional help, could you please encourage your students to attend?
We would like to inform you that YLMP 2012, the student congress organized by WA, takes place on 25-27 May 2012. Participation for WA students and staff is free of charge. Please spread the news among your students.
The registration deadline has been extended until 9 May 2012 for WA participants only.
Also, please inform your students that we are recruiting members for the YLMP Helpers Team. The organizational meeting takes place on Friday, 27 April. As we need additional help, could you please encourage your students to attend?
The Department of the History of English has the pleasure to announce that the 26th meeting of the HEL Reading Club will take place on Tuesday, May the 29th, at 4.45p.m. in 612C. The paper to be discussed is: Luisa García García, Morphological causatives in Old English: The quest for a vanishing formation.
Modified idioms with HAND: A corpus-based study of the metaphor-metonymy interplay
This presentation deals with idiomatic expressions with the lexical component HAND whose motivation consists in metonymy intertwined with metaphor. The project brings out the decomposable nature of body part idioms, and contributes to the recent trend in cognitive linguistics towards explicating metaphorical and metonymic motivation of multiword units (Boers – Lindstromberg 2006).
The aims of this project are: 1) to specify the metaphor-metonymy interaction in the selected expressions; 2) to identify the most frequent creative modifications that the target items undergo; 3) to establish how modification types affect the motivation of idioms; 4) to investigate whether the most typical formal alternations are reflected in the entries of three paper dictionaries of idioms: Collins Cobuild Idioms Dictionary, Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, Oxford Idioms Dictionary for Learners of English; 5) to discover potential new meaning developments of the target items. The four idioms under analysis have been extracted from the EnTenTen corpus of the English language, accessed via the Sketch Engine.
It is shown that the types of ‘metaphtonymy’ distinguished by Goossens (2002) frequently demonstrate more intricate patterns where cumulative and integrated metaphtonymies are combined. Secondly, the creative occurrences of the HAND idioms in the corpus are grouped into five modification types presented by Stathi (2007). In this project, the scope of analysis is extended in order to take into account other modifiers (e.g. adverbials, genitive forms), apart from adjectives. It turns out that, although contextual modifications do not drastically change the idiom’s motivation type, they do affect the degree of metaphoricity. Last but not least, the occurrences of idioms in the corpus are compared with the definitions and examples in the dictionaries. On the whole, the lexicographic treatment of formal idiom variation tends to reflect the traditional view of idioms as stable multiword units. Some examples of semantic transformations observed in the corpus might become candidates for inclusion in the dictionaries in the form of new senses or subsenses, however, a larger sample of data should confirm the preliminary results of this study.
The Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures is pleased to announce that on Wednesday evening, our Film Club will be showing 'Dancing at Lughnasa' in Room 6:15A, starting at 6:30 pm.
Instytut Lingwistyki Stosowanej UAM we współpracy z Fundacją Alexandra von Humboldta zaprasza na wykład
Prof. dr dr h.c. Jürgena Meisela
(Universität Hamburg & University of Calgary).
Bilingualism in Early Childhood: The Acquisition of French Gender by German children
Wykład wygłoszony zostanie 4.06.2012 r. (poniedziałek) o godz. 11:30, w sali 114 Collegium im. Hipolita Cegielskiego (ul. 28 Czerwca 1956 r nr 198) w Poznaniu.
Instytut Lingwistyki Stosowanej UAM we współpracy z Fundacją Alexandra von Humboldta zaprasza na wykład
Prof. dr dr h.c. Jürgena Meisela
(Universität Hamburg & University of Calgary).
Bilingualism in Early Childhood: The Acquisition of French Gender by German children
Wykład wygłoszony zostanie 4.06.2012 r. (poniedziałek) o godz. 11:30, w sali 114 Collegium im. Hipolita Cegielskiego (ul. 28 Czerwca 1956 r nr 198) w Poznaniu.
The Department of the History of English has the pleasure to announce that the 27th meeting of the HEL Reading Club will take place on Tuesday, June the 5th, at 4.45p.m. in 612C. The paper to be discussed is: Cristina Suárez, The consolidation of þat as an invariable relativizer in the history of English.
Studenci II roku MA (studia stacjonarne) którzy uzyskali zaliczenia ze wszystkich przedmiotów mogą zgłaszać się po widematy (najlepiej grupowo) w piątek 08.06 o godzinie 12.00 w pokoju 106A.
dr Anna Dziemianko
Lista alfabetyczna z podziałem na sale pojawi się na stronie na początku czerwca.
WAŻNE: Warunkiem podejścia do egzaminu z PNJA jest uzyskanie zaliczeń ze WSZYSTKICH komponentów.
I need to cancel my duty hours this coming Tuesday since I will be attending a doctoral defence away from Poznań. I will resume my duty hours as from Thursday, most of the time in C1, unless indicated otherwise.
Lista alfabetyczna z podziałem na sale pojawi się na stronie na początku czerwca.
WAŻNE: Warunkiem podejścia do egzaminu z PNJA jest uzyskanie zaliczeń ze WSZYSTKICH komponentów.
Due to the refurbishment of the A building I will hold my office hours in C1, unless indicated otherwise (information will be posted on a C1 door). Jacek Fabiszak
The MEDIVA project is organizing a Final European Workshop in Brussels on 15 June 2012 to present the MEDIVA Diversity Indicators which seek to assess the role of the Media in Reflecting Diversity and Promoting Migrant Integration. The workshop will present the overall findings of the MEDIVA Pilot Study Assessing 35 Media Outlets in 6 European Countries (Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland) and will organize two roundtables on the following topics:
What contributions can the media make in promoting migrant integration in European societies? and
How is the media profession changing in the 21st century? What is the impact of these changes for Migrants and Migration related news?
The organizers of the event are The School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, European University Institute Florence and European Journalism Centre.
For more information please contact the Primary Investigator of the Polish team Dr hab. Michał Krzyżanowski: mkrzyzanowski@wa.amu.edu.pl
Studenci, którzy uzyskali zaliczenia ze wszystkich przedmiotów mogą zgłaszać się po widematy (najlepiej grupowo) w piątek 15.06 o godzinie 12.00. Z uwagi na remont bloku A, będę do Państwa dyspozycji w okolicy C1.
Dyżury środowe są zawieszone, włącznie z 13.06. Kolejna możliwość uzyskania widematu w piątek 22.06 o godzinie 12.00.
Lista alfabetyczna z podziałem na sale pojawi się na stronie na początku czerwca.
WAŻNE: Warunkiem podejścia do egzaminu z PNJA jest uzyskanie zaliczeń ze WSZYSTKICH komponentów.
Lista alfabetyczna z podziałem na sale pojawi się na stronie na początku czerwca.
WAŻNE: Warunkiem podejścia do egzaminu z PNJA jest uzyskanie zaliczeń ze WSZYSTKICH komponentów.
Lista alfabetyczna z podziałem na sale pojawi się na stronie na początku czerwca.
WAŻNE: Warunkiem podejścia do egzaminu z PNJA jest uzyskanie zaliczeń ze WSZYSTKICH komponentów.
Dear Students, please be informed that due to the Faculty Council meeting tomorrow morning (Thursday, 21 June) I need to cancel my office hours at the usual time: 10.00-11.00; I will be briefly available from 8.20 till 8.50 in C1 tomorrow. Please note, too, another change - this coming Friday, 22 June, I will hold my office hours from 8.00 till 9.00, and from 12.00 till 1.00 also in C1. Jacek Fabiszak
Lista alfabetyczna z podziałem na sale pojawi się na stronie na początku czerwca.
WAŻNE: Warunkiem podejścia do egzaminu z PNJA jest uzyskanie zaliczeń ze WSZYSTKICH komponentów.
