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The concepts of Cognitive Linguistics offer considerable explanatory potential which can be used in accounts of translation, especially of subtitling as its more specifically constrained audiovisual mode. This book analyzes English-to-Polish subtitling data and applies cognitive semantic constructs to uncover patterns of construal reconfiguration.

This book analyzes events and narratives from the points of view of literature, grammar, discourse, and semantics. The contributors place the event and narrative categories at the center of interest and their specific goals are pursued by applying different, both qualitative and quantitative, research methods.

The book argues for the underlying status of the vowel "y" on the basis of palatalization processes in Polish. It is shown that the absence of "y" is empirically unfeasible as it leads to morphologization of completely regular phonological rules and demands an extensive use of diacritics, which may also result in segment indexation.

Although various Old Romance grammars can be traced back to the common Latin ancestor, the functional domain of reciprocity shows divergent paths of development, with each of the languages having worked up their unique solutions. The problem boils down to find out grammatical and semantic mechanisms underlying their diversity.

The articles in this volume present new and innovative ideas on theoretical issues in audiovisual translation, translator training and domain-specific issues. A companion volume in this series contains papers on Translation Studies and literary translation.

The book outlines current scholarly approaches and methods of examining identity in communicative contexts (intersectionality; narrativity; conversation analysis; rhetoric) and identifies some key themes in the fieldwork (gender, otherness, stereotyping; situatedness, CMC, argumentation, persuasion; emotion management).

Each paper is either a "vision" or a "revision" of some selected issue in theoretical and applied linguistics. Taking a structural and/or functional orientation in their analyses, the authors contribute to the on-going polarization between generatively- and cognitively-oriented linguistic paradigms.

The monograph discusses the relation between language and visual culture from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. It accounts for the role of language and visual culture in cultural transmission, indicating the significance of linguistic and visual resources for sustaining the symbolic tradition of Chaucer's late medieval community.

The volume provides current methodological insights into translation didactics. It investigates both theoretical and practical aspects of translator training with a view to exchanging knowledge and resources among those who contribute to the complex and challenging endeavour of constructing translation competence.

"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 communication, language learning, discourse, and literature.

The volume is a collection of articles on aspects of audiovisual translation. These include subtitling, dubbing, voice-over, accessibility for the hearing- and vision-impaired, as well as translation in advertising.

The main topic of this volume is human interaction. It is approached from two complementary perspectives: the intrapersonal and the interpersonal. The intrapersonal view concerns issues like cognition, linguistic construal, metonymy, and the representation of motion and gestures. The interpersonal articles discuss the issue of identity.

Culture and language provide two essential frameworks to deal with the concept of time. Relying on empirical methods, the book explores language users' perception and conceptualization of time across such research domains as temporal processing, language acquisition, philosophy, literature, the arts, and non-verbal communication.

The volume contains papers focused on speech actions. The contributors analyse actional language integrating varied methodologies of cognitive linguistics and pragmatics. The papers are grouped into four sections which subsequently emphasise theoretical linguistics issues, lexical pragmatics, speech act-theoretic problems, and cognitive processes.

Dynamicity in Emotion Concepts

Translating Audiovisuals in a Kaleidoscope of Languages addresses the challenges involved in translating multilingualism in film and TV fiction. It shows the complexities of using different languages, dialects and accents in different genres. This book includes the voices of researchers and professionals working with audiovisual multilingualism.

Includes papers that discusses 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.

Includes: 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 translation.

Includes: 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.

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 approaches have their inherent inadequacies, which poses a need for an integrated research mode. Also, numerous observations are made about the rhetoric of the analyzed text types.

Inspired by the idea that emotion(s) and motion(s) constitute profoundly intertwined dimensions of physical and cultural embodiment reflected in language, this volume comprises nineteen contributions presenting exploratory and applicative accounts of (e)motion(s) situated across a range of topical research areas.

Cognitive Processes in Language

This book studies the history of the Concise Oxford Dictionary from 1911 to recent times. By comparing samples from each edition of the dictionary, the study provides a detailed analysis of changes in its definition style, vocabulary selection, sense discrimination and other aspects of the dictionary structure.

The present volume is divided into two parts. The first part includes thirteen chapters and is devoted to the analysis of the interaction between cognition, emotion and language. The second part, comprising eight chapters, presents analyses of emotion, cognition and media discourse.

Translator education is a concept that requires comprehensive analysis in order to be appreciated. The volume reports on research from various educational environments and displays an array of statements on current translator education which are important for translators, translation scholars and particularly translator educators

The volume focuses on the structure, functions and motivations of signs across texts and genres. Applying various theoretical approaches, the contributors examine the dynamic interplay between the verbal, the visual and other semiotic modes as well as notions of identity, ideology and representation in literature, media and political discourse.

The book touches upon the issue of the consecutive interpreter's psycho-affectivity and shows how the subjective experience of anxiety, fear, language ego/language inhibition/language boundaries, extroversion/introversion, self-esteem, motivation and stress conditions the consecutive interpreter's performance and output quality.