Section 1. THE USES OF MULTIMODALITY

Chair:

MONIKA CICHMIŃSKA (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn)
Not All Metaphors Are Created Equal: On the Structuring Power of Multimodal Metaphors in Quality Television Series

ANNA DROGOSZ (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn)
Multimodality in Shooting Instructions for Novice Amateur Shooters

TOMASZ DYRMO (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Multimodality Meets Coming Out: A Verbo-gestural Account

Section 2. POETIC MODES AND MODALITIES

Chair:

HENRYK KARDELA (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University)
Roman Ingarden’s Conception of Places of Indeterminacy Revisited: A Cognitive Grammar Analysis of Rudyard Kipling’s Poem “IF”

ANNA GÓRNIAK (University of Gdansk)
Verse by Verse, Choice by Choice: Problems and Challenges of Translating the Poetry of Wisława Szymborska

DOROTA GŁADKOWSKA (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn)
Multi-modalities in the Verse of the Early Modern Period - John Donne's Elegies

Section 3. SEMIOTICS OF VISUAL MODALITIES

Chair:

HALSZKA LELEŃ (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn)
Narrative Multimodalities as Overcoming Communicative Anosmia in Perfume Commercials

REINHOLD UTRI (University of Warsaw)
Do Images Speak Louder Than Words? On Creativity in Advertising: The Case of Visual Metaphors

PRZEMYSŁAW UŚCIŃSKI (University of Warsaw)
The Picturesque across Media: from Gilpin’s Notebooks to Cinematic Intermediality

BARBARA CHMIELEWSKA (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn)
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72: Hunter S. Thompson’s account of the presidential campaign Nixon - McGovern

Section 4. ENVIRONMENTALISM/MATERIALISM

Chair:

AGNIESZKA PANTUCHOWICZ (SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities)
Told by Water. Alice Oswald’s Mutterings of the World

PAULINA SAWICKA (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Global Environmentalism and Ambient Poetics in Robbery Under Arms as an Example of Ecology in the Early Australian Novel

EWA WIŚNIEWSKA (Independent Scholar)
Post-Convulsion Iphigenia. Revisiting Classical Myths in Sheri Tepper’s The Gate to Women’s Country

MARCIN TERESZEWSKI (University of Wrocław)
“A Random Assembly of Geometric Forms”: Thing Theory in J.G. Ballard’s and Ray Bradbury’s Short Stories

09.00-10.30

Section 5. TEACHING MODES

Chair:

MIROSŁAW PAWLAK (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Investigating Emotions in L2 Learning in Polish Secondary School: A Research Proposal

ANNA SANCZYK-CRUZ (University in Białystok)
Exploring Undergraduate Students’ Development of Intercultural Competence through Intentional Critical Reflection

MARTIN BLASZK (University of Gdansk)
Dialogic Teaching Beyond Talk and Text: Instances of Visual and Kinaesthetic Dialogical Interaction in a Higher Education Elective Course

Section 6. MEDIUMS OF LIFE-WRITING

Chair:

WOJCIECH DRĄG (University of Wrocław)
Autobiography in the Alphabetical Mode: The Glossary, the Encyclopaedia, the Index and the Bibliography as Vehicles for Life-Writing

SYLWIA JANINA WOJCIECHOWSKA (Jesuit University Ignatianum in Kraków)
Nostalgia as a Mode of Reflection in Joseph Conrad's Non-Fiction

BOŻENA KUCAŁA (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)
Spectral and Textual Communications in John Harwood’s The Ghost Writer

11.00-12.30

Section 7. WORD MODALITIES

Chair:

AGNIESZKA SOLSKA (University of Silesia in Katowice)
The interplay of E-creativity and F-creativity in multimodal puns: a relevance-theoretic perspective

BARTOSZ PTASZNIK (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn)
Using Example Sentences in Language Production: Lexicographic and Pedagogical Implications

ADRIANNA WACEWICZ-CHOROSZ (University of Gdansk)
Taboo Zoonyms – What Do ‘bear’, ‘lynx’ and ‘wolf’ Have in Common?

Section 8. ADAPTATIONS

Chair:

JACEK FABISZAK (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Modal Hybridity of Joel Coen’s Macbeth (2021)

KRZYSZTOF FORDOŃSKI (University of Warsaw)
E. M. Forster and the Contemporary Opera

EWA KUJAWSKA-LIS (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn)
Multimedia Adaptation: Tarik O'Regan's Opera "Heart of Darkness" (2015 US Staging)

13.00-14.30

Section 9. WEB-ENABLED MODALITIES

Chair:

BARTOSZ LUTOSTAŃSKI (University of Warsaw)
Politics, Celebrities and Cute Cats: A Quantitative Analysis of a Popular Social Media Profile

NIKOLA ZDUŃCZYK, MARTA ROGULSKA, DANIEL SOKULSKI (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Welsh Language Fanfiction in the Light of Welsh Cultural and National Identity and Language Revitalisation

DAGMARA SOLSKA (University of Gdansk)
Translating Suicidal Ideation: Multimodality and digital Textualities in the Context of Web Localization

Section 10. THE MANY MODES OF STORYTELLING

Chair:

ANNA KWIATKOWSKA (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn)
Playing with Perspective: Multi-modality of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories

ELŻBIETA PERKOWSKA-GAWLIK (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin)
The Unreliable Narrator and the Reader in My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

MAREK PAWLICKI (University of Silesia in Katowice)
“Many voices pushing together to be heard”: Analyzing the Narrative Perspective of Damon Galgut’s The Promise

Section 11. SPECTACULAR VISUALITIES

Chair:

TOMASZ FISIAK (University of Łódź)
Gothic Intertextuality in Selected Music Videos by Eurythmics

SŁAWOMIR STUDNIARZ (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn)
American Gothic Cinema

TREVOR HILL (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn)
From Canterbury to Węgajty via Glasgow

Section 12. GENRES AND GENDER

Chair:

BARBARA KLONOWSKA (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
Inherent Hybridity: Contemporary British Historical Romances

Wojciech GRUSZKIEWICZ (University of Gdansk)
Magic Realism in Victory City by Salman Rushdie

PATRYCJA PODGAJNA ((Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin)
The Posthuman Body and Gender Dynamics in Ros Anderson’s The Hierarchies (2020)

11.30-13.00

Section 13. TELEVISUAL GILT AND GOLD

Chair:

ELŻBIETA ROKOSZ (University of Rzeszów)
Intertextuality of Julian Fellowes' The Gilded Age (2022)

ANNA KRAWCZYK-ŁASKARZEWSKA (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn)
On Alchemy and Storytelling: The Semiotic Modalities of Alex Garland’s Devs (2020)

DOMINIKA KOTUŁA (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn)
Generic hybridization in the TV series Atlanta

Section 14. READING AS/AND COGNITION

Chair:

ANNA KĘDRA-KARDELA, ANDRZEJ S. KOWALCZYK (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University)
Iconicity and Iconization in the Reading of James Joyce’s Dubliners

PIOTR KALLAS (University of Gdańsk)
The Book of London: The Art of Reading the City from Latin Scrolls to MLE Hypertexts

IZABELA CURYŁŁO-KLAG (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)
Modalities of Existence and Expression in Naomi Mitchison's Beyond This Limit (1934), Illustrated by Wyndham Lewis