Focus on events and narratives in language, psychology, social and medical practice

Preface 7
Janusz Badio, A fictional dialogue against selected linguistic outlooks on spoken language and conversation 9
Janusz Badio, Use of stereotypical social gender roles in an L2 narrative construal task by advanced, Polish learners of English 27
Tomasz Dobrogoszcz, “Beings of secondary order”: Framing and intertextuality as narrative tools in A.S. Byatt’s “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” 41
Hans Giessen, The first European Games – contrasting narratives 51
Aleksandr N. Kornev and Ingrida Balčiūnienė, Verbal explication of (intra-)inter-event causal relations in the story-telling: Comparative study of primary language-impaired and typically-developed pre-schoolers 61
Krzysztof Kosecki, Event structure as a metonymic target and vehicle in the languages of the deaf 77
James Moir, Career choice narratives: engineering personality types? 89
Bartosz Stopel, Double-scope blending of associative and causal event structures in narratives 103
Jacek Waliński, Route verbs in English and Polish expressions of fictive motion 115
Paul A. Wilson, Conflict scenario emotion events in reality television: a cross-cultural perspective 127
Magdalena Zabielska, The patient was admitted…, operated… and recovered quickly… – a narrative study of medical events in the abstract section of English case reports from otolaryngology 141