RSDS Top Twenty

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
PREFACE
RSDS BIOGRAMS
PAPERS LANGUAGE CHANGE
Bożena Duda, On (the inevitability of) language change
Grzegorz A. Kleparski, Some remarks on language-internal causes of evolution of word meaning
ZOOSEMY AND FOODSEMY
Jolanta Wesół, New highlights in diachronic semantics: Zoosemy and foodsemy as two novel categories of semantic change
ZOOSEMY
Małgorzata Górecka-Smolińska, Feathered artists, professional musicians, efficient policemen of the air: An introduction to bird symbolism
Robert Kiełtyka, Zoosemy as a ubiquitous cognitive mechanism
Robert Kiełtyka, Towards cognitive and morphological conditioning of zoosemic developments
Robert Kiełtyka, Lucky pigs and (un)wise owls: On the polarisation of the conceptual dimension
BEHAVIOUR/CHARACTER
Grzegorz A. Kleparski, Lusta, mint a disznó: A hunt for ‘correlative’ zoosemy in Hungarian and English
FOODSEMY
Piotr Cymbalista, Foodsemy: The phenomenon of food methaphor
Grzegorz A. Kleparski, Romance foodsemy with the Italian leading note
Marcin Kudła, Eating the foreigner (with a pinch of salt) – more on foodsemic ethnonyms
METONYMY
Piotr Cymbalista, Eponymy and metonomy – the phenomenon of eponymous semantic modification
Beata Kopecka, Mini-skirt, light skirt and super skirt: Clothing lexicon and cognitive axiology
Beata Kopecka, On gallant Johns and plain Janes – names and their axiological potential
VARIA
Agnieszka Grząśko, The historical synonyms of skinny/fatty in the field structure
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
Grzegorz A. Kleparski, On the metaphorics of English temperature terms
Grzegorz A. Kleparski, Anna Dziama, Yiddish element in American English: The case of female/male specific terms
Bożena Kochman-Haładyj, On how proverbs and quotations aid in stereotyping (a woman)
Marcin Kudła, The shades of otherness – on body-oriented attributive racial (and racist) terms in English
Dorota Osuchowska, Context-induced creativity and the figurative use of taste terms