Introduction: Languages, Cultures and Media in Contact and in Contrast

Note on editors and contributors

Part I. Languages and Cultures in Contact

Piotr Stalmaszczyk – Dialect Continua and Language Contact in Ireland: Historical and Terminological Considerations;
Jerzy Tomaszczyk – Linguistic and cultural response to globalisation - English lexical influences in the Polish press 1972-2005;
Deniz Maden – Culture, Brands and the Concept of Brand Culture;
Malgorzata Król – Legal paremias and legal culture.

Part II. Languages and the Media

Susanne Wagner, Josef Schmied – Culture in Newspaper Writing? Comparing journalistic text-types in Englishes around the world;
Matthias Hofmann – Dialect authenticity in film text: The case of Sweet Home Alabama;
Konca Yumlu – Political news frames as a reflection of political culture in Turkey;
Josef Schmied – Data from the internet for language and culture studies: A corpus-linguistic appraisal;
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk – English and Polish self-projection in the internet comments on sports events: communal and confrontational practices;
Cornelia Neubert – Online questionnaires and online corpora as research tools: the case of themself;
Mikolaj Deckert, Piotr Pezik, Lukasz Drózdz – Formulaic sentiment markers in online political discourse.

Part III. Languages and Cultures in Foreign Language Education

John Osborne – Language proficiency and the comparative fallacy: fluency and precision in speech;
Przemyslaw Krakowian – Managing Rater Cultural Bias in Intercultural Contexts;
Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka – The interface of language and culture in the legal context – some teaching implications;
Jacek Walinski – Media Creation and Sharing for Intercultural Competence Development: Implementation of M-learning with Linguistic Landscape