Bücher der Reihe Text - Meaning - Context: Cracow Studies in English Language, Literature and Culture

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 volume is a collection of essays representative of the wide focus of research encouraged and coordinated by the Polish Association for the Study of English. Articles selected for the volume deal with works of poetry, drama and prose written in English and invite the reader to view them in the context of intercultural and intertextual discourse.

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.

Charts the evolution of attitudes to the Victorian age and investigates possible reasons for the current creative engagement with Victorianism. This title offers a schema for the classification of Victorianist fiction, whereas it finally presents an analyses of the chosen novels.

Explores the use of idioms in Salman Rushdie's eleven novels. This study establishes Salman Rushdie's prose as highly idiomatic and the author as exceptionally creative when it comes to the deployment of idioms in literary texts.

This volume is a collection of papers approaching the phenomenon of language from a variety of perspectives, moving from the study of sound through the description of structure to the analysis of meaning. The volume has been brought together to honour Professor Piotr Ruszkiewicz from the Institute of Modern Languages in Cracow.

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.

This book is dedicated to the issue of animal metaphor. The cognitively-oriented panchronic analysis is carried out in terms of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory. The results show that virtually any facet of humanity which is beyond the norm may be viewed, perceived, conceived of and expressed in animal terms.

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.