Malgorzata Fabiszak

List of John Benjamins publications for which Malgorzata Fabiszak plays a role.

Numerous studies on political discourse claim that metaphors help politicians to construct coherent arguments to convince their voters. Yet, most of them, with a few notable exceptions, do not adhere to any theory of argumentation. In this paper, we integrate Discourse Dynamic Approach to… read more
Fabiszak, Malgorzata, Marta Gruszecka and Anna Weronika Brzezińska 2019 Historical politics in newspaper reporting: Media representations of football supporters’ commemoration activismJournal of Language and Politics 18:1, pp. 61–82 | Article
Historical politics is usually an institutionalised top-down phenomenon, in which the government or the cultural elites selectively formulate a historical narrative to unify and homogenize the imagined nation-state. Yet, there are also grassroots movements in the public sphere, which participate… read more
Fabiszak, Malgorzata 2016 Multimodal discourses of collective memoryExploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction: Multimodal and cross-linguistic perspectives, Romano, Manuela and M. Dolores Porto (eds.), pp. 159–183 | Article
The aim of this paper is to analyze the interaction of the visual and the verbal layers of the memorials in the former extermination sites in Poland (cf. Young 1993). Two of the selected memorials were designed and erected in the 1960s (Chełmno nad Nerem and Majdanek) while the other two (Bełżec… read more
Fabiszak, Malgorzata, Anna Hebda, Iwona Kokorniak and Karolina Krawczak 2014 The semasiological structure of Polish myśleć ‘to think’: A study in verb-prefix semanticsCorpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy, Glynn, Dylan and Justyna A. Robinson (eds.), pp. 223–251 | Article
The aim of the present chapter is to investigate the semasiological structure of the Polish verb myśleć ‘to think’ relative to the construal imposed by its prefixes. It juxtaposes the results of cognitive linguistic corpus-based introspective analysis with the results of a series of statistical… read more
Kokorniak, Iwona and Malgorzata Fabiszak 2014 Grammaticalization of Polish mental predicate prefixesGrammaticalization – Theory and Data, Hancil, Sylvie and Ekkehard König (eds.), pp. 109–128 | Article
This article presents insights into grammaticalization mechanisms in an attempt to elucidate the status of the aspectual prefixes in Polish as semantically ‘heavy’ or semantically ‘light’. The verb myśleć ‘to think’ and its ten prefixes constitute the subject of investigation. The study employs… read more