Bücher der Reihe Lodz Studies in Language

This volume deals with the language of the British upper class in natural face-to-face dialogue and how this is rendered in audiovisual media. Previous scholarly insights on the topic are discussed in the light of new evidence gathered from the qualitative analysis of some recorded audiovisual texts.

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.

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.

As cognitive scientists continue to probe into the nature of the human mind, it is increasingly clear that research into cognition cannot be dissociated from the context in which our mental activity occurs. This book testifies to the growing interest in adopting a broad characterisation of what counts as relevant context.

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.

This book offers a range of complementary perspectives on Audiovisual Translation. Inquiries of linguistic, cultural, sociological, computational, educational and historical nature give a comprehensive account of AVT as an expanding and heterogeneous, yet internally coherent, field of scientific endeavour as well as professional practice.

The goal of the book is to show how computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools may affect trainee translators and to what degree. As the main issues in the CAT-based classroom come to light, the author discusses how to negate them in order to prepare students to enter the professional market.

Dedicated to Prof. Piotr Stalmaszczyk, the volume includes essays on a variety of urgent, widely discussed topics in the contemporary language studies. Spanning contributions from language history, philosophy, argumentation, and discourse studies, it provides an authoritative outline of the field and a timely response to the existing challenges.

This book comprises sixteen contributions exploring a range of topics situated in the overlapping areas of theoretical linguistics, applied linguistics and translation studies. The book also initiates the publishing activity of the Department of Translation Studies, established at the Institute of English Studies, University of Wroclaw, Poland.

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 presents the dynamic genre of audiovisual translation. It includes a taxonomy of AVT modalities, together with characteristics of the main types: subtitling, dubbing, voice-over, audiodescription and surtitling. Subsequently, it lists and evaluates methods of researching AVT.

By employing a combination of eye-tracking with various research tools (including online questionnaires), the study offers a unique insight into viewing styles, preferences, and expectations of Polish viewers towards watching American humorous productions deeply rooted in source culture with modes of audiovisual translation proper.

The book brings to the fore the issue of collective identity and analyzes it from the linguistic perspective. Addressing the problem, the authors demonstrate ways in which the language we use in everyday life enables us to construct and perform in a flexible and context-bound manner the sense of our belonging in a community. They offer some rich data and present strong arguments in favor of qualitative methodologies for research in the field. Drawing on numerous interactional settings, and amongst different communities, the contributors shed new light on how our language practices and non-verbal behaviors mold our collective identities.

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 book presents current semiotic perspectives on the nature and function of signs, signification, communication. Offering an overview of various theoretical traditions and methodological frameworks, it explores the dynamic nature of the meaning-making process and provides insight into the complex interface between language, cognition, culture.

This book focuses on video game translation from the perspective of cognitive semantics. It presents how the translators' knowledge of cognitive semantics can affect translation. The work is interdisciplinary and aspires to complete gaps in the research on video games. It analyzes almost 3000 standard pages of texts found in eight different games.

This collection of papers focuses on the role of context in the production and comprehension of metaphors in political discourse and the conceptualization of emotions. Two corpus-based studies offer conceptual models of individual words. It also offers cognitive linguistic analyses of passive voice, aspect and phonological categories.

This book presents new and innovative ideas on the didactics of translation and interpreting. They include assessment methods and criteria, assessment of competences, graduate employability, placements, skills labs, the perceived skills gap between training and profession, the teaching of terminology, and curriculum design.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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).

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.

This book focuses on matching theoretical predictions about language and cognition against empirical language data. The contributions use corpus linguistics methodology for their analysis.

The book analyses a selection of British comedy productions (e.g. The Office, Extras, Carry On, etc.) by means of conceptual integration theory, aka blending, as proposed by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner. It shows that blending can successfully explain the origin of humour and thus it can be labelled as a potential linguistic theory of humour.