Research in Language: Recent submissions
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Native and Non-Native Accents of English: Different Perceptions of English as a Global Language in a Phonetic Perspective. An Editorial to RiL Special Issue Vol. 20.1 and 20.2.
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-29)The text reviews selected current issues related to native and non-native accents of English, including the status of English as a global language, the value of varieties of English and the question of a possible supremacy ... -
Multidimensionality of “Europäische Identität” Notion in German Mass Media
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)This paper uses communicative-pragmatic analysis and a corpus-based method to investigate multidimensional axiological interpretation of Europäische Identität notion as a unifying political concept. The study focuses on ... -
The Implementation of Intelligibility-Based Pronunciation Instruction on a Pre-Sessional Eap Course in the Uk
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)Pre-sessional EAP access courses for learners of English intending to study on undergraduate or postgraduate courses in the UK are faced with particular challenges in incorporating meaningful suprasegmental pronunciation ... -
Metaphorical Representation of the European Union in Political Cartoons in English and Latvian
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The study is carried out in the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, but since it considers political cartoons that, apart from linguistic, involve also other modes, the findings of theoreticians researching visual and ... -
Evidential Constructions as Deictic Markers of a Communicative Subject in Newspaper Political Narrative
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The article is dedicated to studying communicative and pragmatic evidential constructions in newspaper political narrative. Based on the assumption that a communicative subject is represented as chain cooperation (“orderer” ... -
Hermeneutics, Retranslation and Paratext: a Case Study of Seamus Heaney’s Preface to His Retranslation of „Beowulf”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)This paper sets to analyse the hermeneutical process of highlighting at work in the preface written by the North Irish poet Seamus Heaney to his retranslations of Beowulf (1999). My analysis takes into account the generic ... -
Morphological and Lexicosemantic Behaviour of Lexical Units “Golovnaya Bol', Migren', Tsefalgiya and Headache, Migraine, Cephalgia” in the Corpus Environment
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The paper deals with the morphological and lexicosemantic characteristics of lexical units golovnaya bol', migren', tsefalgiya and headache, migraine, cephalgia. The research focuses on collocations, word combinations and ... -
Non-Equivalence in Translation: Russian-German Diachronic Corpus-Based Dictionaries of Non-Equivalent Units
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)This paper explores the essence of lexical units with no direct equivalents in other languages and introduces a bilingual dictionary of a new type. Such a dictionary is built upon a diachronic corpus of parallel translations ... -
Non-Commercial Advertisements: Multimodal Metaphor, Metonymy and Conceptual Blending at Work
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)Nowadays the omnipresence of advertisements, and the necessity of conscious and subconscious mental interpretation of their hidden messages, can hardly be overlooked. In the present article, the authors attempt to provide ... -
When Do the Leaves Fall and When Do We Reap? – Semantic Analysis of Folk Month Names in the Languages of Eastern Europe
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)The abundance of folk month names in different languages of Eastern Europe results in specific mental pictures in a speaker's mind. Translation usually fails to communicate the elaborate connotations implied, even in the ... -
Incidental Development of Pronunciation Learning Strategies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)The studies devoted to the so-called good language learners that emerged in the 1970s (Rubin 1975) reveal that efficient learners fall back on an abundant and highly individualised array of techniques and strategic behaviours ... -
Poetic Cycles and Information Beyond the Micro-Level of Words: On the Translations of Joseph Brodsky's Cycle A Part of Speech Into English and Latvian
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)A poetic cycle is a specific case of poetic contextualisation and for translators this means additional efforts in identifying the micro- and macro-level network of functional and semantic links. Joseph Brodsky’s cycle A ... -
Contexts and Consequences of Sentence Splitting in Translation (English-French-Czech)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)The present paper examines the contexts and consequences of sentence splitting in English, Czech and French translated fiction. In the data extracted from a parallel (multilingual) corpus, we analyze first a language-specific ... -
How Incorporating Deliberate Practice in Work Placement May Contribute to Developing Expertise in Translators
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)The article explores some of the ways in which work placement that accompanies or follows academic instruction may contribute to stimulating trainee translators’ professional development. Inspired by general and ... -
Teachers’ Feedback and Trainees’ Confidence: Do They Match?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, traditional face-to-face learning was suddenly replaced by online learning in universities all over the world. This sudden switch posed a wide variety of challenges to teachers and students. ... -
The Effect of Emotions on Translations Performance
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)Macedonian L1) following their three step procedure: resiliency test, translation-bogus feedback-translation, self-reporting questionnaire. Following their recommendations (ibid.), the change in methodology involves using ... -
Design Thinking as a Tool for Participatory and Transformative Translator Education
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)This article outlines the main tenets and the working cycle of Design Thinking, which is a problem-solving methodology. We argue that this methodology helps train qualities and skills that are particularly beneficial for ... -
Developing Manageable Individualised Formative Assessment of Translator Trainees Through Rubrics
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)For some time now I have implemented a manageable combined assessment approach emphasising competence and decision-making (Way 2008, 2009). To do this, we must be able to monitor trainees’ planning, monitoring, regulating, ... -
Student Agency in Translator Training: Setting a Framework for Good Practices
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)Both teacher and student agency have been discussed and researched for quite some time in different learning contexts. Here, I will present a general framework for pedagogical practices that enhance translator education ... -
Focus on the Translation Trainee
Pietrzak, Paulina
; Kornacki, Michał (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-30)
A learner-based approach to translator training has already been recognised and discussed in translator education for the last few years (González-Davies 2004; Kelly 2005; Kiraly 1995, 2000; Massey et al. 2019). With the ...