Wypromowane prace licencjackie

2010/2011

1. Categorization of real objects by young children in the view of cognitive linguistics
2. A cognitive approach to the analysis and interpretation of poetic texts based on the selected examples
3. Metaphors in advertisements of cosmetics in official cosmetic websides and women's magazines: A cognitive linguistic analysis
4. Comparison of the English senses of the preposition to and the Polish preposition do 'to'. A cognitive linguistic study
5. Metaphors of love, sex and relationships in men's magazines
6. Body parts. The English noun head and the Polish noun głowa 'head' as the polysemous words: A cognitive linguistic analysis
7. Cognitive analysis of selected metaphors in the Bible
8. Teaching phrasal verbs in junior high school by means of image schemas
9. Metaphors in the Bible. A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis
10. Metaphors in politics. A cognitive view

2011/2012

1. Natural disasters as a target domain
2. Metaphors of men, women and their relationships in the series Sex and the City
3. A cognitive linguistic investigation into the use of metaphors in political speeches
4. Acquisition of English interrogative structures in the view of Cognitive Linguistics
5. Cognitive view on the age factor in Second Language Acquisition
6. Language of a murderer. Metaphors of a crime scene, a murderer, a victim and a homicide in the American TV series "Dexter"
7. A cognitive study of the temporal relativity in nature vs. nurture
8. A cognitive analysis of love poems
9. Metaphors and metonymies in Jamie Oliver's food-focused television shows. A cognitive analysis
10. Metaphors of politics in the autobiography of Tony Blair - cognitive approach
11. Semantic network of the English verb to put: A cognitive linguistic analysis

2012/ 2013

1. Metaphors of relationship in psychological articles. A cognitive linguistic analysis
2. Metaphors in the novel Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh and its film adaptation
3. First language acquisition from the perspective of generative and cognitive linguistics
4. Metaphors of nature in National Geographic magazine articles. A cognitive approach
5. Depression and aspects of the illness in Darkness Visible by William Styron. A cognitive view
6. Metaphors of rape and aspects of rape encounter in the book After Silence. Rape and My Journey back by Nancy Venable Raine
7. Metaphors and metonymies of prisoners' language in selected British and American films.
8. Cognitive analysis of metaphors of medicine in Grey's Anatomy TV series
9. A bibliography as a key to understanding metaphors and metonymies in works of art

2013/2014

1. Differences in categorization based on age. A cognitive linguistic study
2. Analysis of metaphors in Polish and English proverbs about troubles, misfortunes and loss
3. Metaphors in Inception by Christopher Nolan
4. Metaphors of life in Paulo Cohelo's The Alchemist
5. Human being and the body parts as source and target domains in The Little White Bird and Peter Pan by J.M Barrie. A cognitive analysis
6. Metaphors in the novel Forrest Gump by Winston Groom and its film adaptation
7. Music as a source and target domain in Chronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan
8. Tennis metaphors in Open by Andre Agassi
9. Cognitive analysis of metaphors and metonymies in the metalcore lyrics
10. Overextension of word meaning in first language acquisition
11. Metaphorical conceptualizations in Keith Richards' autobiography Life

2016/2017

1. Metaphors of life and love in Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. A cognitive linguistic study
2. Fictive motion in the descriptions of the method of loci. A cognitive analysis of the lexicalization patterns of path and manner
3. Metaphors of crime in Breaking Bad. A cognitive linguistic study
4. Metaphors of emotions evoked by dance. A cognitive analysis of blogs' language
5. Characters' personalities reflected in metaphors used by them in House of Cards. A cognitive linguistic study
6. Multimodal metaphors in pictorial advertising and TV commercials. A cognitive linguistic study
7. Horizontal vs. vertical motion in English and Polish. Cognitive analysis of elicited data
8. Lexicalization of motion events by Polish and English speakers. A cognive comparative study
9. Lexicalization of motion events in English and Polish adventure books. A cognitive comparative study
10. Metaphors before and after the American elections. A comparative cognitive study of linguistic data from press articles

2022/2023
1.     Conceptual metaphors in the book "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" by Otessa Moshfegh. A cognitive linguistic study
2.     Metaphors in the „Bojack Horseman" series. A cognitive linguistic study
3.     Metaphors and metonymies of evil depicted in selected horror movies. A cognitive linguistic study
4.     Metaphors and metonymies in the movie "The Platform". A cognitive study
5.     Conceptual metaphors in the book "The House in The Cerulean Sea" by TJ Klune. A cognitive linguistic study
6.     Metaphors in the film „Stutz". A cognitive linguistic study
7.     Conceptual metaphors in the novel "I'll give you the sun" by Jandy Nelson. A cognitive linguistic study
8.     Conceptual metaphors in law court. A cognitive analysis of the game "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney"
9.     Motion and space as source domains of metaphors in the Harry Potter book series by J.K. Rowling. A cognitive linguistic study
10.  Metaphors and metonymies of dating in the American TV series "How I met your mother". A cognitive study
11.  Metaphors of emotions in selected Ted Talks. A cognitive linguistic study
12.  Metaphors in selected neuro-linguistic programming handbooks. A cognitive linguistic study
13.  Conceptual metaphors in the book "Destiny, Freedom and the Soul: What Is the Meaning of Life?" by Osho. A cognitive linguistic study
14.  Conceptual metaphors and metonymies in the book "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" by Joseph Murphy. A cognitive linguistic study

 Wypromowane prace magisterskie

2017/2018

1. Vertical and horizontal motion in Polish and English novels. A cognitive linguistic analysis / Ruch wertykalny i horyzontalny w polskich i angielskich powieściach. Analiza w perspektywie językoznawstawa kognitywnego.
2. Factive, fictive and metaphorical motion in Victorian Gothic novels. A cognitive linguistic study / Ruch rzeczywisty, fikcyjny i metaforyczny w powieściach epoki wiktoriańskiej. Analiza w perspektywie językoznawstwa kognitywnego.
3. Metaphors of murderers. Cognitive analysis of multimodal metaphors based on selected films /Metafory morderców. Analiza kognitywna metafor multimodalnych oparta na wybranych filmach.
4. Functions of metaphors in selected animated films - a cognitive linguistic study /Funkcje metafor w wybranych filmach animowanych - analiza w perspektywie językoznawstwa kognitywnego.
5. Multimodality of anti-drug campaigns. A cognitive linguistic study /Multimodalność w kampaniach antynarkotykowych. Analiza w perspektywie językoznawstwa kognitywnego.
6. Metaphors of TEACHING used by tutors, teachers and students. A cognitive linguistic study /Metafory nauczania używane przez metodyków, nauczycieli i uczniów w ujęciu językoznawstwa kognitywnego.
7. Why is the metaphor HUMAN BEING IS AN ANIMAL so pervasive in films of various decades? A cognitive study of multimodal metaphor /Dlaczego metafora CZŁOWIEK TO ZWIERZĘ jest wszechobecna w filmach z róznych dekad? Analiza kognitwna metafor multimodalnych.
8. Waking sleeping metaphors. A cognitive analysis of multimodal metaphors of illness in TED-Ed videos. /Budzenie śpiących metafor. Analiza kognitywna metafor multimodalnych chorób w filmikach TED-Ed.
9. Manipulative power of multimodal metaphors in shoe advertisments and commercials - a cognitive linguistic study. /Siła manipulacji metafor multimodalnych w reklamach butów - analiza językoznawczo-kognitywna.
10. Fictive motion in Polish in comparison with English. An experimental and corpus-driven study. /Ruch fikcyjny w języku polskim w porównaniu z językiem angielskim. Analiza w oparciu o eksperymenty i korpus językowy.
11. Conceptualisation of MAN as a source and target domain in science-fiction films. A cognitive analysis of multimodal metaphors. /Człowiek jako domena źródłowa i docelowa w filmach science-fiction. Kognitywna analiza metafor multimodalnych.
12. Axiological value of multimodal metaphors of fire in selected films. A cognitive study. /Aksjologia metafor multimodalnych ognia w wybranych filmach. Studium kognitywne.
13. Conceptualization of GOOD and BAD in selected films. A cognitive study. /Konceptualizacja dobra i zła w wybranych filmach. Studium kognitywne.
14. Metaphors in the graphic novel Blankets. A cognitive analysis /Metafory w powieści graficznej Blankets. Analiza kognitywna.
15. Drug commercials and anti-cancer camapigns. Manipulative power of multomodal metaphors. / Reklamy leków i kampanie antyrakowe. Siła manipulacji metafor multimodalnych.
16. Analysis of car commercials in cognitive linguistic perspective. /Analiza reklam samochodów w perspektywie lingwistyki kognitywnej.