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PREFACE J.FISIAK, P.CHRUSZCZEWSKI

FACES OF LANGUAGE ..... 11

• Action Implicative Discourse Analysis Method as a New Approach to American Political Discourse M.BIENIEK ..... 13
• Cognitive-Pragmatic Aspects of Legitimization of the War-on-Terror P.CAP ..... 24
• President Bush’s Address to the Nation on U.S. Policy in Iraq: A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach I.A.EL-HUSSARI..... 35
• American English Dialectology. A Historical Survey R.KIM ........... 48
• Sport Announcers Talk. A Linguistic Analysis of Basketball Broadcast D.KSIĘŻARCZYK ........... 59
• On Universality of Slang Usage: Motives for Using Slang in English and Polish  M.WIDAWSKI ........... 80
• Proximisation Patterns for Linguistic Legitimisation A.E.WIECZOREK ........... 93

FACES OF CULTURE ........... 107

We Own the World N.CHOMSKY ........... 109

“We – the American …” Speech Communities P.CHRUSZCZEWSKI ........... 123

Reference to Normality as a Way of Asserting Ingroup Membership. The Woodward Case in the Media  J.CHOVANEC ........... 131

“Spinning the thread/(t)s” around Images of Time C.CMECIU ........... 151

Seneca-Cayuga Tribal Dynamism and its Impact on Identity  (Selected Issues Based Mostly on the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma) M.R.ODELSKI ........... 167

FACES OF LITERATURE ........... 174

Vladimir Nabokov’s American Adventure M.GÓRSKA ........... 177

Ineffable Socialities in American Literature. A Preliminary Perspective J.SEMRAU ........... 189

Rediscovering America. Native American Spirituality in William Carlos Williams' and Gary Snyder's Poems  P.ZAZULA ........... 203

FACES OF POLITICS ........... 224

Warming up the Cold War. The United States through the Prism of a Polish 1952 Daily Newspaper - an Outline Proposal  A.KNAPIK ........... 227

The Policy of U.S. Presidents toward Poland 1956-1970 J.TYSZKIEWICZ ........... 237