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Turning Points in the Philosophy of Language and Linguistics
Inbunden, 2011
784 kr
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The papers in this collection discuss broadly understood cognitive turns in the philosophy of language, inspired by the Chomskyan revolution in linguistics, Langacker’s and Lakoff’s Cognitive Linguistics, but also phenomenology, Relevance Theory and Classical Indian Philosophy. The individual texts …
Explorations in Political Discourse
Methodological and Critical Perspectives
Av Piotr Cap
Häftad, 2002
802 kr
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The book presents an application of inductive and deductive research modes in an analysis of political discourse. The discussion is illustrated with text samples from inaugural addresses of US presidents and various speeches given by prominent NATO politicians. It is argued that both analytic …
Accents and Speech in Teaching English Phonetics and Phonology
EFL perspective
Av Ewa Waniek-Klimczak, Patrick James Melia
Häftad, 2002
799 kr
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The volume brings together contributions from scholars active in the field of pronunciation teaching and those more concerned with theoretical phonetics and phonology. The focus of the book is on English phonetics and phonology viewed and studied from the perspective of foreign learners, teachers …
Literal and Nonliteral in Language and Thought
Av Seana Coulson, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Häftad, 2005
1098 kr
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The distinction between literal and nonliteral meaning can be traced back to folk models about the relationship between language and the world. According to these models, sentences can be seen as building a representation of the world they describe, and understanding a sentence means knowing how …
Corpora and ICT in Language Studies
PALC 2005
Av Jacek Walinski, Krzysztof Kredens
Häftad, 2007
1387 kr
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Information and communication technology (ICT) has dramatically altered the world’s social and economic landscape and is now gaining momentum in the realm of language studies. Corpora and ICT in Language Studies attempts to signal and document this phenomenon by bringing together twenty-nine …
Corpus Linguistics, Computer Tools, and Applications – State of the Art
PALC 2007
Av Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Häftad, 2008
1813 kr
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Contents: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk: PALC 2007: Where are we now? – Paul Rayson/Dawn Archer/Alistair Baron/Nicholas Smith: Travelling through time with corpus annotation software – Eugene H. Casad: Parsing texts and compiling a dictionary with shoebox – Belinda Maia/Rui Silva/Anabela …
Studies in Cognitive Corpus Linguistics
Av Katarzyna Dziwirek, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Inbunden, 2009
2135 kr
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Contents: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk/Katarzyna Dziwirek: Emergence of Cognitive Corpus Linguistics – Piotr Pęzik: Extraction of multiword expressions for corpus-based discourse analysis – Galina I. Kustova/Olga N. Lashevskaja/Elena V. Paducheva/Ekaterina V. Rakhilina: Verb Taxonomy: From …
Meaning in Translation
Av Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Marcel Thelen
Inbunden, 2010
1202 kr
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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: Specification and generalisation of meaning in …
Meaning in Subtitling
Toward a Contrastive Cognitive Semantic Model
Av Mikolaj Deckert, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Inbunden, 2013
521 kr
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The book’s principal argument is that the concepts of Cognitive Linguistics offer considerable explanatory potential which can be systematically used in accounts of translation, and especially of subtitling as its more specifically constrained audiovisual mode. Authentic English-to-Polish …
Dynamicity in Emotion Concepts
Av Paul Wilson
Inbunden, 2012
1035 kr
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«Bringing together specialists from linguistics, psychology and philosophy, the book offers an exciting collection of papers assessing the conceptual representation of emotion and the conceptual relationship between emotion and language. The specific issues addressed include the analyses, based on …
Cognitive and Pragmatic Aspects of Speech Actions
Inbunden, 2014
907 kr
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This volume contains papers which reflect current discussions in the study of speech actions. The collection was inspired by the papers presented at Meaning, Context and Cognition, the first international conference integrating cognitive linguistics and pragmatics initiated by the Department of …
Time and Temporality in Language and Human Experience
Av Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Krzysztof Kosecki
Inbunden, 2014
1039 kr
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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 empirical methods, the book explores linguistic and …
Language, Action, Interaction
Av Janusz Badio, Kamila Ciepiela
Inbunden, 2013
599 kr
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This book is a collection of articles covering the theme of interaction. Interaction combines two crucial elements: the intrapersonal and the interpersonal. Accordingly, the authors approach this issue from two complementary perspectives: from the internal and external or cognitive and social …
History of the «Concise Oxford Dictionary»
Inbunden, 2014
989 kr
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This book shows the evolution of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, a famous and innovative dictionary for native speakers of English. It traces changes in the dictionary from 1911 to recent times. By comparing samples from each edition, the author provides insights into the revisions of the …
Accessing Audiovisual Translation
Av Mikolaj Deckert, Lukasz Bogucki
Inbunden, 2015
812 kr
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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 captioning, revoicing and accessibility, as well as …
Visions and Revisions
Studies in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Av Przemysław Łozowski, Katarzyna Stadnik
Inbunden, 2016
926 kr
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The papers reflect on «visions» and «revisions» of selected theoretical and applied linguistic issues. Methodologically, they all reflect and contribute to the polarization between form- and substance-oriented approaches that are typically identified with, respectively, structural and functional …
Empirical Methods in Language Studies
Av Janusz Badio, Krzysztof Kosecki
Inbunden, 2015
952 kr
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«Empirical Methods in Language Studies» presents 22 papers employing a broad range of empirical methods in the analysis of various aspects of language and communication. The individual texts offer contributions to the description of conceptual strategies, syntax, semantics, non-verbal …
From Motion to Emotion
Aspects of Physical and Cultural Embodiment in Language
Av Marek Kuźniak, Bożena Rozwadowska m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
897 kr
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This volume has its origins in an international conference on emotions organized by the Polish Association for the Study of English and held at the University of Wrocaw in April 2015. In the course of the conference, it became clear that emotions are productively explored with relation to motion …
Constructing Translation Competence
Av Paulina Pietrzak, Mikołaj Deckert
Inbunden, 2015
945 kr
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«The volume reflects latest trends and developments in the field of translator and interpreter training research, reconciling both theoretical and empirical approaches. The strength of the edited volume lies in its thematic and conceptual consistency, presentation and application of a variety of …
Translation and Meaning. New Series, Vol. 2, Pt. 1
Av Lukasz Bogucki, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1078 kr
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The volume contains a selection of articles on current theoretical issues in Translation Studies and literary translation. The authors are experts in their fields from renowned universities in the world. The book will be an indispensable aid for trainers and researchers, but may be of interest to …
Chaucer’s Choices
Through the looking-glass of medieval imagery
Inbunden, 2015
778 kr
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The monograph discusses the relation between language and visual culture, focusing on two Chaucerian narratives, «Knight’s Tale» and «Troilus and Criseyde». The study highlights the significance of the continuity of imagery in language and material culture for cultural transmission, providing …
Translation and Meaning
New Series, Vol. 1
Av Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Marcel Thelen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1039 kr
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This book contains a selection of articles on new developments in translation and interpreting studies. It offers a wealth of new and innovative approaches to the didactics of translation and interpreting that may well change the way in which translators and interpreters are trained. They include …
Categorization in Discourse and Grammar
Av Małgorzata Fabiszak, Karolina Krawczak m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
999 kr
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This collection of papers addresses new trends in Cognitive Linguistics. Three parts of the book focus on Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Integration Network Analysis. Both the theoretical contributions and the empirical case studies stress the importance of contextual factors in the meaning making …
Identity in Communicative Contexts
Inbunden, 2016
884 kr
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The central focus of the book is the identification of the ways people engage in communicative encounters to (re)constitute personal and social identities. Its aim is to identify some principal themes that have emerged from the ample research on identity in a variety of contexts. A common thread of …
Translation and Meaning. New Series, Vol. 2, Pt. 2
Av Łukasz Bogucki, Lukasz Bogucki m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1078 kr
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The volume contains a selection of articles on current theoretical issues in audiovisual translation, translator training and domain-specific issues. The authors are experts in their fields from renowned universities in the world. The book will be an indispensable aid for trainers and researchers, …
Events and Narratives in Language
Av Janusz Badio
Inbunden, 2017
926 kr
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This book analyzes events and narratives from the points of view of literature, grammar, discourse, and semantics. The contributors explore the issues related to the ways of portraying stories and their events within a cultural and literary framework. They also examine the role of prefixes in …
Video Game Translation and Cognitive Semantics
Inbunden, 2016
774 kr
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The book concentrates on video game translation from the perspective of cognitive semantics. One of its objectives is to assert that translators’ knowledge of cognitive semantics can affect translation, i.e. decoding the sender’s mental states and evoking particular mental states in the target …
Metaphoricity of Conventionalized Diegetic Images in Comics
A Study in Multimodal Cognitive Linguistics
Av Michał Szawerna, Lukasz Bogucki
Inbunden, 2017
1240 kr
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This book offers a cognitive-semiotic approach to metaphoricity of visual representations in static visual narratives referred to as comics. It implements this approach in an exploration of conventionalized visual signs depicting diegetic situations, motion events, sound events, and diverse …
Opera Surtitling as a Special Case of Audiovisual Translation
Towards a Semiotic and Translation Based Framework for Opera Surtitling
Inbunden, 2016
906 kr
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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 worldwide ever since. This book aims to offer a …
Entrenchment of the «unus alterum» Pattern
Four Essays on Latin and Old Romance Reciprocal Constructions
Inbunden, 2016
488 kr
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In this book, the author presents that although various Old Romance grammars can be traced back to the common Latin ancestor, the functional domain of reciprocity shows divergent paths of development. In this regard, each of the languages have worked up their unique solutions, with grammatical and …
