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17 produkter
From Conceptual Metaphor Theory to Cognitive Ethnolinguistics
Patterns of Imagery in Language
Av Marek Kuźniak, Agnieszka Libura m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
878 kr
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The origins of this volume lie in the international conference Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2012, convened by the Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association. The proceedings of the conference revolved around three major thematic areas: metaphorical and metonymic underpinnings of meaning in …
Claim-making and Claim-challenging in English and Polish Linguistic Discourses
Inbunden, 2014
1039 kr
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The book presents the results of multi-parameter corpus research on Polish and English scientific discourses in the field of Linguistics. Highlighting the relevance of contextual variables (including time, culture, L1 vs. L2 language) in research framework, the study develops a discourse model of …
Academic (Inter)genres: between Texts, Contexts and Identities
Av Anna Duszak, Grzegorz Kowalski
Inbunden, 2015
812 kr
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The volume takes a close look at discourse perspectives on academic genres. In the context of scientific communication and the evolution of postmodern culture and society, academic genres have undergone various changes. The study shows that cultural heterogeneity of academic genres, styles and …
Lost in the Eurofog: The Textual Fit of Translated Law
Av Lucja Biel
Inbunden, 2014
912 kr
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The book is one of the few in-depth investigations into the nature of EU legal translation and its impact on national legal languages. It is also the first attempt to characterise EU Polish, a language of supranational law and a hybrid variant of legal Polish emerging via translation. The book …
English Loan Translations in Polish
Word-formation Patterns, Lexicalization, Idiomaticity and Institutionalization
Inbunden, 2015
1021 kr
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This volume on language contact is a corpus-based descriptive and theoretical study of the Polish translations of English one- and multi-word polymorphemic expressions. The formation of loan translations is unique among strategies in lexical development as it involves three processes: borrowing, …
Rhetoric, Knowledge and the Public Sphere
Av Agnieszka Kampka, Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska
Inbunden, 2016
880 kr
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Public deliberation depends on how skillful communicators are in establishing their version of what is known to be publicly acceptable. This volume provides rhetorical analyses of institutional websites, political speeches, scientific presentations, journalistic accounts or visual entertainment. It …
Rhetoric, Discourse and Knowledge
Av Maria Załęska, Urszula Okulska
Inbunden, 2016
926 kr
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The authors of this volume explore rhetorical and discursive strategies used to negotiate and establish legitimate knowledge and its disciplinary boundaries, to make scientific knowledge interesting outside academic settings as well, and to manage (c)overt knowledge in different social and …
Interpreter-Mediated Interactions of the Courtroom
A Naturally Occurring Data Based Study
Av Agnieszka Biernacka, Lucja Biel
Inbunden, 2019
808 kr
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Court interpreting understood as services provided for court stakeholders and court’s private clients is a subdiscipline which has emerged as an area of investigation within Interpreting Studies. Although the research in court interpreting has been enjoying prominence at an international level, …
Lost in the Eurofog: The Textual Fit of Translated Law
Second Revised Edition
Av Łucja Biel
Inbunden, 2017
988 kr
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The book is one of the few in-depth investigations into the nature of EU legal translation and its impact on national legal languages. It is also the first attempt to characterise EU Polish, a language of supranational law and a hybrid variant of legal Polish emerging via translation. The book …
Discourse Studies – Ways and Crossroads
Insights into Cultural, Diachronic and Genre Issues in the Discipline
Av Karolina Bros, Grzegorz Kowalski
Inbunden, 2018
846 kr
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The volume brings together papers emerging from the GlobE conference (University of Warsaw). The authors explore major topics in Discourse Studies, offering insights into the field’s theoretical foundations and discussing the results of its empirical applications. The book integrates different …
Phonology Matters in Interpreting
Av Katarzyna Stachowiak, Lucja Biel
Inbunden, 2018
575 kr
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This book bridges the gap between phonological and Interpreting Studies. It first presents interdisciplinary studies on interpreters and interpreting receivers. The subsequent chapters discuss phonology, phonological transfer and bilingual processing. The author also touches upon expertise and …
Authorial Presence in English Academic Texts
A Comparative Study of Student Writing across Cultures and Disciplines
Av Iga Lehman, Lucja Biel
Häftad, 2018
725 kr
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This book presents a case study of student-writers from multiple cultural and academic backgrounds. It investigates how writing, as an act of identity, can be analyzed along an axis of individual and social influences. This continuum entails a number of related perspectives, including the ways in …
Traces of the Foreign
The Reception of Translations of Spanish American Prose in Poland in 1945-2005 from the Perspective of Intercultural Communication
Av Małgorzata Gaszyńska-Magiera, Lucja Biel
Inbunden, 2019
866 kr
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The aim of this monograph is to present the traces of intercultural encounters between Poland and Latin America realized by means of literary translations produced in the post-war period. It considers various aspects of the reception of Polish translations of Spanish American prose in 1945-2005 by …
Language of EU and Polish Judges
Investigating Textual Fit Through Corpus Methods
Av Dariusz Koźbiał, Lucja Biel
Inbunden, 2020
746 kr
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This book is an in-depth study of EU judicial language and its impact on the language of national judges. It is the first comprehensive study of the judicial variety of the Polish Eurolect. The book applies the intertextual relation of textual fit and corpora of EU and Polish judgments to …
Administrative Reports
A Corpus Study of the Genre in the EU and Polish National Settings
Av Katarzyna Wasilewska, Lucja Biel
Inbunden, 2021
617 kr
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This book is the first comprehensive study of administrative reports. It investigates the reports prepared in the EU and national settings using a multidimensional genre analysis model. The book provides an account of the context of production and use of the reports and a corpus analysis of the …
New Insights into Interpreting Studies.
Technology, Society and Access
Av Wojciech Figiel, AGNIESZKA BIERNACKA
Inbunden, 2023
676 kr
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This volume is a collective work of eighteen eminent researchers representing various sub-fields of Interpreting Studies who contribute with fourteen chapters. The topics include various areas and approaches: interpreting from a philosophical, sociological and historical perspective, ethics of …
On Ethics and Interpreters
Av Małgorzata Tryuk, Anna Duszak
Inbunden, 2015
593 kr
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The history of translation and interpreting is above all the history of men, women, and sometimes children, who became translators and interpreters. It is the history of why and how they chose that job, how it affected their lives and work, how they carried out the tasks of translating and …
