Semiotik / semiologi

This book is an interdisciplinary guide to empirical research on nonverbal behaviour. It focuses on tools and procedures to investigate body movement and gesture and the relation to cognitive, emotional, and interactive processes. NEUROGES is an o...

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Literature happens in the mind. Literary texts are the product of an intentional mind addressing another mind, and language is the instrument in this cognitive mediation. This work emerges in the confluence of three different research areas: liter...

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Contents: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk: Translation studies: Cognitive linguistics and corpora Marcel Thelen: Translation studies: Terminology in theory and practice Jeanne Dancette: Understanding translators understanding Kinga Klaudy: Specific...

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The aim of this book is not to revisit work done on code-switching as a verbal strategy, but to discuss code-switching in electronic writing. Sociolinguistic approaches have focused mainly on the analysis of oral productions. What is the position ...

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The book offers a general and up-to-date overview of the wider discipline of Audiovisual Translation (AVT), including practices such as accessibility to the media. The innovative and exciting articles by well-known authors offer a comprehensive se...

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This book presents cutting-edge research into the complex interrelationships between linguistic diversity and ideology. It provides insight into how institutions and individual stakeholders carry ideologies forward into the discursive space throug...

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The main focus of this volume is on urbanity as a discursive way of human life in the city. Discourse is specified here in terms of semiotic codes and processes that link city dwellers as communicating selves into interpersonal and intersubjective...

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The articles in this volume investigate everyday textual material of sociolinguistic landscapes in the early 21st century. Sociolinguistic landscapes reflect societal change, and they enable observers to map what linguistic resources are used in v...

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Writing is unanimously regarded as a marker of civilization in the sense of 'civilization as high culture'. This insight has never been seriously questioned. What makes writing a marker of civilization is more than its mere function as an informat...

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This essay is an interdisciplinary study of what is cognitively going on when we interpret, represent, or evaluate cultural entities, works of art included. In addition, the role of interpretation in experience and in cultural objects is elucidate...

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Almost everything that one claims about meaning is likely to be questioned or disputed. Translation studies also abound in numerous controversies. However, there is no doubt that translations entail a transfer of meaning, even if the exact sense o...

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The book proposes a multi-perspective analytical model for the understanding of corporate identity meanings embedded in historical discourse for the web. The suggested theoretical framework conflates methodological perspectives derived from Discou...

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Traducir el horror investiga la relacion entre memoria y traduccion, para lo cual asume que la refraccion de los textos es una forma de hacer memoria. El termino (re)escritura, que incluye la traduccion y otras formas de recontextualizacion, sera ...

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Since translation cannot be approached in isolation from meaning, anything that is said about translation must necessarily be placed in the context of meaning. Accordingly, the first volume of the book concerns this necessary context, while the se...

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Culture and language provide two essential frameworks to deal with the concept of time. They view time as observer-determined and thus shed light on multiple and often conflicting temporalities we live in, think, and talk about. Relying on empiric...

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Textbezogene Forschungsfragen werden im Spannungsfeld von unterschiedlichen sprachwissenschaftlichen Teildisziplinen, wie z. B. Grammatik, Pragmalinguistik, kognitive Linguistik, Lexikologie, Sprachgeschichte, Kontrastive Linguistik, Kontrastive T...

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Probleme der Librettobersetzung setzt den Fokus auf eine in der Forschung lange Zeit vernachlssigte Gattung, das Libretto. Auch die Librettobersetzung nimmt wenig Raum ein in den Wissenschaften. Die Analyse dreier bersetzungen ins Deutsche zu Moza...

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Le livre presente une analyse semantique des predicats dits 'de communication' dans leurs emplois de communication non verbale: la communication avec soi-meme (penser, se dire), le langage du corps (dire, annoncer, avertir, etc.) et la communicati...

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Wir lieben unsere Sprache. Aber kennen wir diese scheinbar so selbstverstandliche Sache, mit der wir taglich umgehen? Wissen wir, welch vielschichtiges Gebilde sie in Wirklichkeit darstellt? Ahnen wir die Mannigfaltigkeit und die Feinheiten, die s...

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Audiovisual translation continues to be a dynamically developing genre, stimulated by interdisciplinary research and technological advances. This volume presents recent developments in the area. Renowned scholars in the field discuss aspects of ca...

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The book approaches law from the legal-linguistic perspective. Its aim is to clarify the processes in which the meaning of law emerges in legal discourses. In order to enable the understanding of law as a discursive practice, professional and non-...

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While multimodality is one of the most influential semiotic theories for analysing media artefacts, the concepts of this theory are heterogeneous and widespread. The book takes the differences between approaches in Germany and those in internation...

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The cultural discourse of theatrical performance defines the theatre sign interaction as an active semiosis. This, in turn, specifies the main objective of the study the formulation of the basic parameters of this architectonics as a fundament of ...

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The author applies Umberto Ecos literary theory of the open work to the perennial problem of the literary macrostructure of the Apocalypse. Revisiting the complexities of its genre, intertextuality, language and communication, he cumulatively trac...

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The book outlines a new approach to the study of motivation in language, which is firmly rooted in the paradigm of cognitive linguistics, but it is developed in critical (and constructive) dialogue with classical theories in semiotics: Ferdinand d...

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Despite the growing interest in various translation activities, there is still a potentially vast area of research. The statement may be true for opera surtitling, which was introduced in the nineteen eighties and has been used in opera companies ...

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Die Studien greifen den Widerspruch zwischen der bestandigen Prasenz von Schrifttexten im Alltag und deren mangelnder empirischer textlinguistisch-stilistischer Bearbeitung auf. Der Kommunikationsbereich Alltag ist uber seine soziokulturelle und h...

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Bilder spielen eine zentrale Rolle in der medialen Inszenierung und Vermittlung von Kriegen. Die Autorin zeigt, wie Comics, die sich realen Kriegen widmen, bekannte Bilder, Handlungsverlaufe und Argumentationen nutzen, umdeuten und vor allem auch ...

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Almost everything that one claims about meaning is likely to be questioned or disputed. Translation studies also abound in numerous controversies. However, there is no doubt that translations entail a transfer of meaning, even if the exact sense o...

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Despite the growing interest in various translation activities, there is still a potentially vast area of research. The statement may be true for opera surtitling, which was introduced in the nineteen eighties and has been used in opera companies ...

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