Bøker i Text - Meaning - Context: Cracow Studies in English Language, Literature and Culture-serien

Echoes of English, also known as Anglicisms, are now heard all over the world. They encompass a wide range of linguistic phenomena, all of which are discussed in this book. Against a backdrop of corpus-based studies of Anglicisms in Danish, the present English influence in Scandinavia is compared with that regarding Afrikaans in South Africa.

The book discusses the issue of religiosity in the context of American Jewish literature, emphasizing the significance of Judaism as an indispensable element in the formation of American Jewish female identity at the turn of the twenty-first century

The book explores variations in English in the context of Facebook as a CMC register. The analysis covers, among others, markers of politeness, informal language, emotionality, and code-switching found in English used as a native, second and foreign language. The results show differences and similarities due to the users' culture, gender and age.

Offers a discussion of the phenomenon of migration and mobility in the modern globalised world and their impact on multiple aspects of culture and communication. This title examines problems that are related to migration, cultural diversity and cultural globalisation.

Translating audio description (AD) scripts from foreign into source language seems to be a tempting alternative strategy of creating AD scripts in those countries where AD is still scarce. The obtained results prove that translation of AD scripts is not only possible, but also beneficial when it comes to time consumption, costs and quality of AD.

Maria Jodlowiec shows how relevance theory can account for explicit and implicit communication. She emphasizes that this pragmatic model not only provides a coherent explanation of communication in which what is conveyed is straightforward and easy to identify, but also offers a fairly precise account of the vaguer aspects of verbal communication.

The book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the cognitive-semiotic interface between language, literature and the arts, with a special focus on creativity and imagination. It brings together international scholars, suggesting a wide range of innovative perspectives on the correlation between verbal discourse and creative artefacts.

The volume brings together a diverse body of scholars to investigate issues spanning narrativity, various modes of literary expressions, ekphrasis, intersemiotic translation and multimodal communication.