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Participants and Abstracts
The list of prospective participants accepted and invited to take part in the "Unity in Diversity” Conference 2010 Szczecin.
- Adriana Goldman, Blending in Public Awareness Camapaign - a Case Study.
- Agnieszka Kotula, Native-like selection in SLA: Investigating the Effects of Age, Aptitude and Socialisation.
- Anna Gonerko-Frej, Global English in Polish education – against hierarchies of languages and cultures.
- Anna Łakowicz-Dopiera, Nonconformity in Portraying Polish and American societies by Aleksander Hertz, as a result of uprootedness and social dislocation.
- Anna Maria Wcisło, I HATE BEING FEMALE – on metonymy – based euphemism used by women to describe femalehood.
- Barbara Braid, 'The Crimson Petal and the White' female insanity in the light of Feminist Disability Studies.
- Barbara Kijek, Who devours whom? - oppression and eating disorders in Margaret Atwood's "The Edible Woman".
- Cormac Anderson, Talking over the Atlantic - the Lebor Gabála and questions of identity in contemporary Ireland and Spain.
- Diana Ismail, Gender identity in Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass- a matter of unity or diversity?
- Edward Gillian and Sylwester Jaworski, Production of voiced and devoiced stops by Warlpiri speakers.
- Ewelina Matwiej, The treatment of racism and identification in Andrea Levy’s Never Far From Nowhere.
- Ferne Louanne Regis, Douglas in Trinidad’s History: Omitted and Denied?
- Hui-lien Yeh (Rita Yeh), The Haunted China: the Ghost Image in Chinese American Novels.
- Iwona Rospędek, Treating the Excluded - on Death and Dying in Updike's Fiction.
- Joanna Duda, Escapism or the road to the inner self? Criticism of fantasy and horror stories.
- Joanna Mstowska, Powerful female characters at sea in Frederick Marryat’s 'The Phantom Ship' and Joseph Conrad’s 'Freya of the Seven Isles'.
- Joanna Witkowska, The importance of inclusion. Polish pilots in wartime Britain.
- Kamil Majerski, The voice of the Fringes – the history and significance of Irish Christian missions in Early Medieval Britain.
- Karen Sanderson Cole, The Creolization of Form : Popular Romance and Cultural Identity in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day.
- Katarzyna Bronk, Wilmotian Wasteland: Libertine porndystopia in Rochester’s (?) Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery.
- Katarzyna Owsińska, Not monsters anymore – vampires in modern teen fiction.
- Lakshmi Aiyar, Unity in diversity in the lyrics of Subrahmanya Bharathi - the national poet of India.
- Louis Regis, From Camboulay to Carnival.
- Magdalena Zyga, Language of the excluded: men-soldiers in the plays Unprotected Sex by Patrick Jones and Draußen vor der Tür [Outside, at the door] by Wolfgang Borchert.
- Małgorzata Filipkowska, How (NOT?) to Translate. Translators and Their Target Audience - Are We One, or Are We Different?.
- Małgorzata Sokół, In the pursuit of inclusion: constructing voices of the elderly in the blogospehere.
- Małgorzata Wesołowska, The Comic and the Terrifying –the Grotesque Deformations of Reality in Popular Cinema.
- Malwina Degórska, Queer Heterosexuality in The Connemara Five.
- Marika Durkiewicz- Jóźwik, TIME IS MONEY conceptual metaphor in English, Polish and Hungarian – a matter of unity or diversity?
- Marlena Benita Gawlik, Polish Sex Language and the Translation of Sarah Water’s Tipping the Velvet.
- Marta Górecka, The Dangers of Mixing Colours: A critical assessment of the attempts to translate Dorota Masłowska’s first novel into English.
- Miguel Nenevé, Caribbean in the Brazilian Amazon: A reading of Marcio Souza´s Mad Maria.
- Monika Skorasińska, Indeterminancy and merging of modal categories.Problem cases of 'shall' and 'will' in Shakespeare and Marlowe.
- Muhammad Qasim Bughio, Shah Latif and Shai Ayaz: A Comparative Study of the Poetic Thought.
- Piotr Kędziora, Studies on intertwining metaphor and metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics.
- Berry Crickmar Rohan, The Powers of Isolation: How the 'ISLAND' Shapes Character in Modern Scottish Fiction.
- Ryan Dorr, Race and the Pseudo-Documentary Format in Cloverfield and District 9.
- Simon Bacon,The Vampiric Diaspora: The Complications of Victim Hood and Post-Memory as Configured in the Jewish Migrant Vampire.
- Sylwester Jaworski and Edward Gillian, The spread and maintenance of Australian Aboriginal kinship terms.
- Tomasz Obiała, Translating taboo words in the film. Are vulgarisms ever excluded? A case study of ‘fuck’ based on Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction.
- Uwe Zagratzki, Scottish Whisky Revisited.
- Wirginia Witkowska, Changes in the political attitudes towards Aboriginal people and their impact on language policy of Australia.