No 2 (2017)

Table of Contents

Language and Didactics

Why Money Cannot Buy Happiness. The Painful Truth about Traditional Proverbs and Their Modifications
Justyna Mandziuk
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Formulaic Sequences in First Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Learning
Marta Orlik
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17
On Reduction in English: What the English Don’t Say
Maciej Tomaka
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25

Literature

Beyond the Convention? Representation of Female Characters in Middle English Romances
Justyna Kiełkowicz
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39
“May the Odds be Ever in Your Favor” Dystopian Reality in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games Trilogy
Julia Kula
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49
The Crying of Lot 49 and the Parody of Detective Fiction
Borys Róg
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59
The Translation Minefield On Specific Translation Challenges Posed by the Graphic Novel Form
Jerzy Skwarzyński
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68
The Labyrinth as an Anti-Home in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves
Magdalena Solarz
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89

Culture and Media

From “Paddies” to “Spics”: The Comparison between the Contemporary Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric in American Media and the Anti-Irish one in the 19th Century
Małgorzata Furgacz
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100
My City, My ‘Hood, My Street: Ghetto Spaces in American Hip-Hop Music
Lidia Kniaź
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114
Sad and Rabid Puppies: Politicization of the Hugo Award Nomination Procedure
Anna Oleszczuk
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127

Reviews

Getting Your Porridge Right is Difficult: Social Media as the Key to Understand the English
Klaudia Gąsior
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136