Magdalena Adamczyk
List of John Benjamins publications in which Magdalena Adamczyk is involved.
Articles
2017 Chapter 13. On the pragmatic expansion of Polish gdzieś tam ‘somewhere (there)/about’ Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: New perspectives, Fedriani, Chiara and Andrea Sansó (eds.), pp. 369–397 | Chapter
In standard usage gdzieś tam functions as an adverbial adding approximation/indeterminacy to expressions of place, time and number/amount/measure, and as such it is semantically equivalent to English ‘somewhere (there) in some contexts and ‘about’ in others. In conversational speech, however,… read more
2015 Do hedges always hedge? On non-canonical multifunctionality of jakby in polish Pragmatics 25:3, pp. 321–344 | Article
One of the canonical uses of jakby in Polish is that of the Lakoffian hedge, which modifies the propositional content of an utterance by pointing to its fuzziness, inexactitude or approximation. In conversational speech the word is frequently put to excessive use, which appears to significantly… read more
2011 Context-sensitive aspects of Shakespeare’s use of puns in comedies: An enquiry into clowns’ and pages’ punning practices The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 105–124 | Article
This paper is a data-driven analysis of Shakespeare’s punning discourse carried out on a collection of puns culled from two comedies, viz. “Love’s Labour’s Lost” (LLL) and “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” (TGV). A pun is defined here as a phenomenon which depends on the juxtaposition of… read more