Studia Anglica Resoviensia T. 22 (2025)

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Algerian Students’ Perceptions of Common Ground in Building Intercultural Communication: A Case Study in Hungarian Universities
(Rzeszów University Press, 2025-12) Zerouali, Hiba
In the context of the increasing cultural diversity in Hungary, common ground remains largely unidentified, thereby hindering the development of strategies that create a meaningful intercultural communication between Algerians and Hungarians. The current research investigated how shared experiences, values, and cultural practices are perceived to shape interactions. Drawing on the results of a questionnaire distributed to 40 Algerian individuals studying in Hungary, and through a mixed-method approach, the collected data were treated using SPSS and MAXQDA software. Additionally, via thematic analysis, the study examines instances of cultural convergence and divergence, stereotypes, and practices for overcoming communicative challenges. The findings accentuated the significance of identifying and leveraging shared understanding as a foundation for fostering empathy and mutual respect. However, they ascertained that language barriers are not the main factor affecting intercultural communication virtuosity. Eventually, this research elaborates on the complex interplay between identity and strategy where embracing diversity is a proof of existence of both core and emergent common ground conceptions. To sum up, it provides valuable insights into the cultivation of cross-cultural comprehension across diverse contexts for further discussion.
Migration and Conceptualization: Love and Family among Turkish Residents in Hungary and Türkiye
(Rzeszów University Press, 2025-12) Taşdemir, Nilay Nur
This study examines the conceptual categories of love and family among Turkish residents in Türkiye and Turkish migrants in Hungary in order to explore how migration shapes core cultural concepts. Using a free-listing task with 219 participants, the research identifies both shared cultural foundations and context-specific variations. Contrary to earlier literature that often emphasizes negative or conflictual aspects in Turkish conceptualizations, both groups primarily described love and family in positive terms. Nevertheless, notable differences emerged in the salience of traditional and collectivist elements. These findings indicate that conceptual categories are flexible and responsive to new social and cultural environments, supporting the view of culture as dynamic rather than fixed. The study concludes that migration functions not only as a social and political phenomenon but also as a cognitive process that reorganizes central human concepts.
Life, Death and the Pastoral: Metamodern Sensibilities in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones
(Rzeszów University Press, 2025-12) Šnircová, Soňa; Sýkorová, Mária Lujza
Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones (2016) is an award-winning Irish novel that highlights the ongoing engagement of contemporary Irish fiction with its rich literary heritage. While its single-sentence, stream-of-consciousness form recalls Joyce, the novel’s thematic rejection of urban modernism aligns it with Oona Frawley’s concept of the Irish pastoral. Marcus, the posthumous narrator, returns as a ghost on All Souls’ Day to reflect on his life through a series of nature-infused memories that draw on both classical and Romantic pastoral traditions. This article argues that Solar Bones participates not only in a “metamodernist” aesthetics (James and Seshagiri, 2010)—through its revival of Joycean formal experiment, but also in “a metamodern structure of feeling,” characterised by the re-emergence of Romantic sensibilities (Vermeulen and van den Akker, 2010). By mapping neoromantic sensibilities in McCormack’s representations of the protagonist’s personal growth—mediated through his reflections on the natural world and his portrayal as a modern-age shepherd—the article posits Solar Bones as a work in which the new structure of feeling manifests primarily as an oscillation between the ordinary and the sublime, order and disorder, life and death, and the finite and infinite.
Motherhood, Disability, and Rebellion: Constructing the Mother in Hobb’s Liveship Traders Trilogy
(Rzeszów University Press, 2025-12) Sršić, Petra
Like many fantasy works, Robin Hobb’s Liveship Traders trilogy is set in a patriarchal society, and the author, among other topics, portrays a variety of women characters and different ways they deal with it. There is limited research on Hobb’s literary opus and feminist readings of the Liveship Traders trilogy are confined to student theses. Therefore, this paper aims to expand and add to the existing corpus of feminist and feminist disability readings by focusing on a character whose portrayal serves as a critique of the patriarchal system and the subordination of women through the intersectionality of gender and disability. The paper portrays how Mother’s disability and gender role intersect to create specific conditions of othering and subordination that lead to her internalization of the role and attempts at rebellion against imposed constraints. Firstly, based on the research of Nancy J. Chodorow, Andrea O’Reilly, Catherine Rottenberg, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, a short overview of feminist approaches to motherhood and feminist disability theory is provided. The paper then examines the role of violence, trauma, and naming as elements of identity construction. The chapter dealing with the mother–son relationship shows how Kennit others Mother, and the final chapter talks about Mother’s internalization of motherhood and rebellion against Kennit. The paper concludes that Mother is othered by Kennit due to his perception of her failure as a mother and her disability that allows him to ascertain his power over her and serves as a cautionary tale of the effects patriarchal motherhood and disability can have on women.
When next Wednesday’s meeting is a red-letter day: The effect of red on temporal reasoning
(Rzeszów University Press, 2025-12) Qin, Yutian
Interpretation of the ambiguous statement “Next Wednesday’s meeting has been moved two days” depends on dichotomous metaphorical perspectives on time. The ego-moving perspective, which implies a future-bound movement, renders the meeting postponed to next Friday. Alternatively, the time-moving perspective, which implies a past-bound movement, translates the situation into an earlier occurrence to next Monday. Motor experiences in space and those grounded as such can influence the preferred perspectives on time. Emerging evidence suggests that sensory experiences can likewise exert an impact. Along these lines and focusing on visual perception, this research examined the unexplored effect of color on temporal reasoning. We found that exposure to the word “meeting” styled in red (versus black) font heightened arousal, which in turn reduced perceived temporal distance that maps onto the time-moving perspective, resulting in a Monday interpretation (Experiment 1). We further demonstrated that the strength of the association between red and the time-moving perspective was conditional on levels of arousal (Experiment 2). By documenting the novel contributor of color to the malleability of temporal perspective preferences and the underlying psychological mechanism thereof, our work adds to the literature on color and psychological functioning and underscores the significance of sensory perception in temporal cognition.
Unboxing the idea of “thinking outside the box”: on the role of creativity in translation training
(Rzeszów University Press, 2025-12) Puchała-Ladzińska, Karolina
Creativity and innovation involve finding new ways of thinking and organizing ideas. A creative individual is someone who can identify problems and come up with effective solutions. Creative thinking helps adapt to changes in today’s fast-evolving world and it should be applied across all areas of life, including education. By fostering creative thinking, teachers can better prepare students for jobs that currently exist but may be transformed by automation in the future. This is not only relevant for fields like translation, but also areas such as medicine and law, where automation is becoming more prevalent. While certain tasks can be automated, the nature of creativity remains irreplicable. Therefore, those who can creatively develop methods of automating processes will be highly sought after, as will those whose creative abilities enable them to thrive in professions that have not yet emerged. The aim of this paper is to delve deeper into the concept of creativity and its key elements, explore ways it can be stimulated, outline strategies for incorporating creativity-focused tasks in the translation classroom, as well as provide methods for encouraging creative thinking among translation students.
On the Natural Environment as a Conceptual Source and Target in Tok Pisin
(Rzeszów University Press, 2025-12) Kosecki, Krzysztof
The study of the relation between language and the natural environment in non-European languages is one of the foci of contemporary ecolinguistics (Penz & Fill, 2022, pp. 247–248). It remains in line with the anthropological proposition to investigate the semantic systems of non-Western languages, whose number is decreasing as a result of fast modernization and the spread of Western culture across the world (Keesing, 1985, p. 214; Mühlhäusler, 1995, p. 282; Mallett, 2003, p. 131). Subscribing to this perspective, the present paper discusses nature-related concepts in the lexicon of Tok Pisin, a creole of Papua New Guinea, lexified by English and the indigenous languages. It employs the methodological framework of cognitive and cultural linguistics (Dancygier & Sweetser, 2015; Langacker, 1994, p. 31; Palmer, 1996; Sharifian, 2017) to present the use of a broad range of natural terms as conceptual sources and targets of both metaphors and metonymies. It is argued that the Oceanic cognitive schema of integrity of humans and the natural world (Flassy, 2018, p. 73; Singh, 2022, p. 4), together with concepts related to the local fauna, flora, climate, and topography, produce an emic and culture-specific view of the natural environment of Melanesia, which gives Tok Pisin semantics a strongly relativist character.
Whispers of the Psyche: Decoding John Donne's Dance between Pain and Pleasure
(Rzeszów University Press, 2025-12) Najjar, Faten
This paper examines the paradoxical interdependence of pain and pleasure in John Donne’s poetry through a sustained psychoanalytic reading of three representative texts: “The Ecstasy”, “The Canonization”, and “Holy Sonnet XIV” (“Batter my heart, three-person’d God”). Drawing principally on Freud’s pleasure principle and his notions of repetition compulsion and the death drive, and supplementing these with Lacanian jouissance, Kristeva’s theory of abjection, and Scarry’s account of pain and representation, the study argues that Donne’s metaphysical conceits stage an early modern dramatization of psychic ambivalence. The article advances a specific contribution beyond existing Freudian readings by (a) demonstrating how Donne repeatedly thematizes repetition and prolongation as the aesthetic logic through which desire attains intensity, (b) articulating how erotic suffering is ritualized into sanctity, and (c) connecting Donne’s formal strategies to contemporary conversations on affect and trauma. Close readings of the selected poems show that pleasure in Donne is not simply opposed to pain but produced with, and through, it; thus Donne can be read as a proto-psychoanalytic poet whose poetics anticipate modern accounts of ambivalent desire.
From Awareness to Action: Eye-Tracking Metacognitive Reading Strategies
(Rzeszów University Press, 2025-12) Alturjman, Mhd Ghaith
Metacognitive reading strategies are central to improving reading behaviour and comprehension, particularly for students reading in a second language (Grabe, 2009; Haukås et al., 2018). However, students’ self-reported awareness of these strategies does not always translate into effective use during reading tasks (Veenman & van Cleef, 2019). This study is an attempt to shift from awareness to action by implementing explicit metacognitive reading instruction. A group of first-year international students (N = 32) at a Hungarian university participated in a metacognitive reading intervention supported by eye-tracking technology. Participants completed the Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory–Revised (MARSI-R; Mokhtari et al., 2018) and took part in pre- and post-instruction eye-tracking experiments and a reading comprehension exam (Cambridge Reading Test, B1). The instruction comprised 10 × 90-minute sessions, during which metacognitive reading strategies were introduced and practised. The initial eye-tracking experiment revealed a clear gap between students’ perceived strategy awareness and their observable reading behaviours. Following instruction, heatmaps and fixation data showed more purposeful, structured reading patterns, reduced fixation durations, and increased attention to task-relevant features. The findings show the potential of explicit metacognitive reading instruction in transforming reading behaviours, highlighting its essential role in second-language academic reading development.
Metaphorical projections in shooting instructions
(Rzeszów University Press, 2025-12) Drogosz, Anna
Extensive research has been conducted within the cognitive semantics theoretical framework to investigate the metaphorical conceptualisation of abstract domains in terms of concrete ones. This body of research lends support to the embodiment paradigm adopted in cognitive science, which emphasises the role of sensorimotor experience in shaping cognition. Meanwhile, the potential application of cross-domain mappings in the conceptualisation and expression of sensorimotor experience has received little attention. This paper attempts to address this issue through an analysis of the linguistic data contained in tips for inexperienced amateur shooters that have been shared by expert shooters on internet blogs and YouTube videos. The study revealed that instructors intentionally and creatively prompt their listeners to activate familiar domains of physical activity and to make projections onto the physical activity of trigger pull, i.e. the skill they are learning. The paper argues that, in the analysed discourse, metaphorical cross-domain mappings can help instructors overcome the challenge of communicating concrete, physical information that cannot be demonstrated and is largely instructors’ internal, private sensorimotor sensation. The paper also compares the cross-domain mappings between concrete domains identified in the data with typical conceptual metaphors, and briefly addresses the question of how such mappings relate to the embodiment paradigm.
The State-of-the-nation Novel as Life Writing: Jonathan Coe’s Bournville
(Rzeszów University Press, 2025-12) del Pino Montesdeoca Cubas, María
Jonathan Coe is a renown English author of fifteen novels, three biographies, two books for children and a regular contributor to various publications. He has been critically acclaimed and awarded particularly for his state-of-the-nation novels, a category currently being closely examined in academia (Borrego, 2021; 2025). Bournville (2022) is his last piece in this line to date. The narrative combines the fictional story of Mary Lamb, a character partly modelled on Coe’s mother, and her family over seventy years. The main events in British history from 1945 to 2020 are unfolded in seven chapters, including two VE Days, a World Cup Final and four ceremonies in the Royal Family. In portraying such a varied array of factual events and fictional plotlines, the novel works as clear form of Life Writing (Hann, 2014; Kadar, 2014) and of the liminal space it shares with literary biographies as conceptualised by Michael Benton (2011). In this paper, I will explore Jonathan Coe’s authorial strategies in building a solid state-of-the-nation novel evincing a post-pandemic zeitgeist of sadness, confusion and frustration, working as a consoling and stimulating book for his contemporary reading audience, and as an informative cultural text for future reference.
Social media and the 21st century narcissistic culture
(Rzeszów University Press, 2025-12) Coombs-Hoar, Katarzyna
This paper delves into the influence social media exerts in fulfilling individuals’ need for recognition and individuality in the 21st-century. The study focuses on the growing concern with narcissism, a term often defined as an excessive preoccupation with oneself, including one’s appearance and public image. The paper argues that this phenomenon may have stemmed from a shift away from collective social needs in earlier societies toward a stronger emphasis on the individual’s desire for recognition. Such a shift appears to have contributed to the development of narcissistic values and standards that shape contemporary social behaviour. Additionally, the paper discusses how individuals, increasingly aware of their roles within society, have become active participants in negotiating and redefining societal norms. Social media platforms provide an unprecedented avenue for self-presentation, offering tools to create an idealised version of oneself. The paper examines existing research and reported statistics to illustrate the increasing reliance on social media platforms. than presenting new empirical data, it synthesises findings from prior studies to explore how the growth of these platforms has been discussed in relation to narcissistic tendencies. Therefore, this is not a meta-analysis but a conceptual synthesis of existing literature. The paper examines the complex interplay between digital technologies and modern identity formation, as well as the broader implications of these patterns for societal dynamics and values.
Millions and millions of people pouring in: a multimodal analysis of migrants’ representation and the anti-migrant posture in Trump’s speech
(Rzeszów University Press, 2025-12) Cataldo, Laure
This study offers a critical and multimodal discourse analysis of Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric during the final weeks of the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign. Drawing on a corpus of 135 annotated video clips totalling 180 minutes and primarily sourced from the X platforms TheWarRoom and The Blazen – the analysis investigates how discursive, rhetorical, and gestural strategies construct a consistent anti-migrant posture. The study reveals that Trump deploys a combination of dehumanizing metaphors, militarized language, and emotionally charged narrative elements to frame migrants as existential threats. Through repetition, hyperbole, and generalization, his discourse reinforces ideological polarization and normalizes extreme political responses. Migrants are systematically portrayed as criminals, invaders, and carriers of disease, while Trump’s use of gesture – particularly beats, deictic pointing, and eyebrow raises—further intensifies the rhetorical impact of his claims. The conflation of terms such as “asylum seekers”, “illegal immigrants”, and “criminals” adds to a climate of confusion and fear, amplified by selective references to statistical data. The study concludes that Trump’s multimodal discourse contributes not only to legitimizing harsh immigration policies but also to shaping public affect and political identity through the strategic mobilization of fear. This research thus illustrates the rhetorical power of populist discourse in constructing socially divisive narratives under the guise of national defense.

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