The Festschrift is a collection of papers written in honour of Professor
Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld to mark the occasion of her 70th birthday.
Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld is one of the leading authorities in
the field of language contact, and has pursued research on the influence
of English on Polish and other European languages, Polish-English
contrastive studies, as well as various aspects of English grammar. She
has authored more than 160 publications, including four books, as well
as course books and academic papers. She has also edited and co-edited
dictionaries of English borrowings in Polish.
The Festschrift volume comprises papers from the world of linguistics
which have been authored by eminent scholars from Poland and abroad. The
chapters included in the volume focus on various issues, including those
from the area of contact linguistics. The topics covered in the research
papers comprise, for instance, the influence of English on different
languages, such as Polish, Danish, Afrikaans, Swedish, Spanish, German
and Japanese, as well as on Asian languages and cultures. The authors
investigate Celtic borrowings in Polish, anglicisms in Serbian, or
Yiddish borrowings in contemporary American English. The contributions
also discuss the phenomenon of Ponglish, i.e., the communication code
used by Poles living in the UK, the presence of foreign languages in the
linguistic landscape of Kraków, as well as the problem of
multilingualism in Europe, the relation between language, culture and
identity, and the influence of globalisation on both Polish language and
culture. Finally, selected chapters address a range of phenomena related
to Karaim, Russenorsk, and Turkish.
