This volume on language contact is a corpus-based descriptive and theoretical study of the Polish translations of English one- and multi-word polymorphemic expressions. The formation of loan translations is unique among strategies in lexical development as it involves three processes: borrowing, word-formation and semantic change. The study explores morphosyntactic, semantic and extralinguistic issues in the context of set expressions that are loan translated from a foreign language. It offers a typology of loan translations, loan identification criteria as well as a dictionary of over 500...
This volume on language contact is a corpus-based descriptive and theoretical study of the Polish translations of English one- and multi-word polymorp...
The volume takes a close look at discourse perspectives on academic genres. In the context of scientific communication and the evolution of postmodern culture and society, academic genres have undergone various changes. The study shows that cultural heterogeneity of academic genres, styles and discourses now gives way to an increasing hybridization and discusses theoretical aspects of this process. The second part focuses on specific dimensions of hybridization, in particular between global and local academic genres and discourses, and between real and virtual ones.
The volume takes a close look at discourse perspectives on academic genres. In the context of scientific communication and the evolution of postmodern...
The authors of this volume explore rhetorical and discursive strategies used to negotiate and establish legitimate knowledge and its disciplinary boundaries, to make scientific knowledge interesting outside academic settings as well, and to manage (c)overt knowledge in different social and political contexts. The volume focuses on the cultural concept of knowledge society, examining diverse linguistic means of knowledge transmission from the perspective of the complex interplay between knowledge and persuasion. The contributors discuss both sociological and philosophical issues, as well as...
The authors of this volume explore rhetorical and discursive strategies used to negotiate and establish legitimate knowledge and its disciplinary b...
Phonology is an important yet still understudied aspect of Interpreting Studies and interpreting performance. Phonological quality also matters in interpreting practice. At the same time, languages undergo constant and mutual influence in the bilingual mind. This book discusses phonological transfer which can occur in conference interpreters.
Phonology is an important yet still understudied aspect of Interpreting Studies and interpreting performance. Phonological quality also matters in int...
