Opis
This monograph focuses on the ever topical issues of work, enterprise and career in the English language, literature and culture. Its first part is devoted to language studies and analyses the metaphors of work in the English translation of the Polish Kodeks pracy, the functioning of modal expressions in the UK's Employment Rights Acts of 1996, and the problems that legal terms and expressions pose for Polish translators; the fourth chapter examines manifold aspects involved in designing ESP courses that should substantially enhance students' career prospects. Literary studies deal with the issues of women's work in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley, and social and professional advancement in John Braine's Room at the Top, as well as the process of professionalisation of literary creation in 18th-century England. Texts under the heading "culture" examine modern factories in the Victorian Age and their vindication by Andrew Ure, labour market in 19th-century outcast London, servants and their work as presented by Mary Beeton, and the successful career of Florence Nightingale who transformed nursing into a modern profession available for women. Spis treściFrom the Editor 9Part One:Language1. Metaphors of WORK in legal text. A cognitive linguistics approach - Tomasz P. Górski 15Introduction 151.1. The classical view and its challenge 161.2. Cognitive metaphor 181.3. Using metaphors 241.4. The lexeme WORK 251.5. Conceptual metaphors of WORK 271.5.1. WORK IS A JOURNEY (example 1) 291.5.2. WORK IS A MARRIAGE (example 2) 291.5.3. WORK IS A (MOVEABLE) OBJECT (example 3) 301.5.4. WORK IS A LIVING ORGANISM (example 4) 301.5.5. WORK IS A CONTAINER (example 5) 311.5.6. WORK IS A PLANT (example 5) 32Conclusions and future prospects 32Works Cited 332. On the usage of linguistic modalities in legal texts on the basis of UK's Employment Rights Act of 1996 - Katarzyna Gęborys 35Introduction 362.1. The roles of modals and functions of their propositional attitudes 362.1.1. Epistemic modality 382.1.2. Deontic modality 392.1.3. Alethic modality 402.2. On the consequences of misinterpretation of legal texts in the context of modal verbs exponents 412.2.1. Shall as the exponent of obligations 422.2.2. Must as the exponent of internal obligation 432.2.3. Have to as a form of intrinsic obligation 442.2.4. May as an exponent of permission or possibility 442.2.5. Can as a manifestation of implied ability 45Final remarks 46Works Cited 473. Some problematic issues of legal terminology in English and Polish on the example of UK's Employment Rights Act of 1996 - Katarzyna Gęborys 49Introduction 493.1. On the concept of discourse and discursive communication in legal discourse 503.2. On the concept of employment relationship in the context of British legal system 503.3. The language of law defined 513.4. Translation of legal terms 523.5. Equivalence decoded 533.6. The analysis of problematic terms in the context of principles of British employment law 553.6.1. Contractual relations 553.6.2. Part I Employment particulars 563.6.3. Part II Protection of wages 573.6.4. Part 2A Zero hours workers 583.6.5. Part III Guarantee payments 583.6.6. Part IV Sunday working for shop and betting workers 583.6.7. Part V Protection from suffering detriment in employment 593.6.8. Part VII Suspension from work 593.6.9. Part X Unfair dismissal 603.6.10. Part X Insolvency of employers 60Concluding remarks 60Works Cited 614. Enhancing students' career prospects through up-to-date English for Specific Purposes (ESP) syllabi - Ewa Bułat 634.1. Demand for specialist English courses and study programmes 634.2. The demands of teaching ESP and the role of the ESP teacher 654.3. ESP course design 684.3.1. Needs analysis 684.3.2. Developing a syllabus 694.3.3. The ESP practitioner as materials provider 74Conclusions 75Works Cited 76Part Two:Literature5. "I never saw a more industrious girl": Representation of women's work in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley - Agnieszka Setecka 81Works Cited 906. A man of career, or the working-class hero Joe Lampton makes it to the top - Marek Błaszak 91Works Cited 1007. The representation of the professionalisation of authorship in eighteenth-century English literature - Joanna Maciulewicz 101Works Cited 108Part Three:Culture8. Man against the machine. Andrew Ure's visions of the factory and factory labour - Małgorzata Nitka 113Works Cited 1309. The labour market in outcast London of the 19th century - Bojana Bujwid-Sadowska 1339.1. Economic theories 1349.2. Labour market and its variability 1359.3. The ways of economising labour 1389.4. The diversity of London's labour market 139Conclusions 142Works Cited 14310. Servants and their work in Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861) - Wojciech Nowicki 145Works Cited 15511. Florence Nightingale as a Victorian career woman - Ilona Dobosiewicz 157Works Cited 164Notes on Contributors 167