Migration, Narration, Communication

Alicja Witalisz teaches English linguistics at the Pedagogical University of Cracow and at Krosno State College (Poland). She has authored a monograph on English semantic loans in Polish and published articles on language contacts and linguistic borrowing.

Contents: Christoph Houswitschka: Literary views on cosmopolitanism in Europe - Pilar Cuder-Domínguez: Masculinities and intergenerational strife in recent Black British fiction - Dorota Milhulka: «I am a woman cracked by multiple migrations» - the search for self through space in the works by South Asian American women writers - Monika Wojdan: Latino identity in the poetry of Emanuel Xavier - Beata Piatek: Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn: emigration as double life - Dorota Rygiel: When the West becomes the Home: the portrayal of Bangladeshi immigrants in Monica Ali's Brick Lane - Simona Hevesiová: Unaccustomed Earth: generation at the crossroads - Patrycja Austin: Multilingual India in Amit Chaudhuri's Afternoon Raag and Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy - Christie Davies: How jokes migrate and how they change as they migrate - Joanne Paisana: Anglo-Portuguese colonial rivalry in late nineteenth-century Africa: visual commentary in contemporary satirical journals - Anna T. Litovkina/Dóra Boronkai: Appreciation of humor in Anglo-American and Hungarian anti-proverbs - Megan Case: Experiences of idiolect change among English speakers in Sweden - Alicja Witalisz: Linguistic globalisation - a contribution to linguistic homogenisation or the creation of linguistic difference? - Marcin Zabawa: The influence of English on international Internet slang - Clare Vassallo: Roses by different names - do they smell as sweet?: style, status and invisibility in literary translation - Colin Swatridge: Does the Erasmus Programme foster a European identity?