Research in Language: Ostatnio dodane
Wyświetlanie pozycji 81-100 z 370
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A Comparative Analysis of the Semantic Field of ‘deception’: A Case Study Of Russian And American Imageboard Messages
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-03-30)This article uses the material of anonymous Internet forums to analyse the semantic field of deception by the instrumentality of artificial neural networks. Two major imageboards were investigated: 2ch.hk and 4chan.org, ... -
New English Words for Describing the International English as a Current World Language Reality
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-03-30)The evolution of the English language, its changing in the situation of language contacts and functioning of English as an international means of communication have created a need for a more systematic analysis of related ... -
Processing Presuppositions. Are Implicative Verbs Soft Triggers?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-03-30)This paper investigates the question whether implicative verbs should be considered as soft presupposition triggers, i.e., as triggers activating optional context repairs. I present the results of an experiment in which ... -
Time Metaphorization: Duality of Time as a Pursuer vis-à-vis Object of Pursuit
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-03-30)This paper discusses the duality of metaphorical conceptualizations of time focusing in particular on time as a pursuerand time as an object of pursuit metaphors, which are based the Figure–Ground reversal of each other. ... -
Exploring Communicative Gestures in Czech Persons with Diagnosed Aphasia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-03-30)In my investigation, I worked with 6 persons with diagnosed aphasia. I introduce some possible perspectives on the exploration of the extent of speech damage in persons with aphasia and the various ways in which they ... -
Complex Patterns in L1-to-L2 Phonetic Transfer: The Acquisition of English Plosive and Affricate Fake Geminates and Non-Homorganic Clusters by Polish Learners
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-03-30)This paper analyses the way that Polish learners of English articulate plosive and affricate consonants preceding another obstruent occlusive in both L1 and L2. Considering that English allows unreleased plosives before ... -
Visual Metaphtonymy in Automobile Femvertising
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)In a 2017 landmark reform, Saudi authorities decided to lift the ban on women driving in this conservative society. In tribute to women's newly-gained freedom to drive, major automakers turned to Twitter to launch creative ... -
An Analysis of Identity Construction in Interactional Narratives by Women with Turner Syndrome
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The study aims to uncover and explore the social identities of women suffering from a genetic disorder called Turner syndrome (TS), and whose main symptoms are a short stature and gonadal dysgenesis. Such a genetically-determined ... -
Metaphors Instrumental in Achieving the Pragmatic Effect in Animal Rights Advertisements
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)Metaphor can manifest itself in a variety of form including the visual one, which can be an extremely expressive means of communication. That is why visual metaphors are widely used by marketers and advertisers thus becoming ... -
Translation in Forming Musical Discourse: A Case Study of English-Language Song Lyrics in Russia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The paper considers translation as an intermediate stage in the creation of English-language song lyrics by native Russian speakers. Russian songwriters quite often rely on their native language and translate their thoughts ... -
Terminology in Media Discourse: A Case Study of Terms Denoting Phobia Types in English, Lithuanian and Norwegian News Media Sites
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The paper presents the trilingual (English – Lithuanian – Norwegian) analysis of the terms denoting phobia types in mass media discourse. The aim of the paper is threefold: to perform conceptual categorisation of the terms, ... -
Word-final /ɔ̃/ in Greater Poland Polish: A Cumulative Context Effect?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)An empirical corpus-based study of the likelihood of realizing the Polish nasal vowel /ɔ̃/ word-finally as [ɔm] (i.e. of 'nasal stopping') is presented. The goal was to verify whether the phenomenon exhibits a cumulative ... -
Metadiscourse in Academic Written and Spoken English: A Comparative Corpus-Based Inquiry
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)This paper reports on a comparative study performed in the field of Corpus Linguistics. The objective of the research was to analyze the distributional pattern of interactive and interactional metadiscourse features in two ... -
Colorative Challenges in English Economic Terminology
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The paper focuses on multicompound English economic terms with colorative components that constitute a large lexis group, creating constant challenges for translators of economic literature. The introductory part briefly ... -
On the Normative Paradigm of Sworn Translation in the Realm of Law
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)In the 1920s the Polish legislature adopted a whole range of normative acts focused on the protection of the Polish language and on sworn translators practicing in official contexts. In accordance with statutory law, since ... -
Creation and Extension of Meaning in Professional Communication
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The application of different language resources in professional communication reveals the role of cognition in information processing, the interpretive function of language in knowledge construction, and the interrelation ... -
A Few Remarks on Legal Translation and Intercultural Encounters
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The text offers comments on legal translation and its special nature. It is argued that legal translation is much different from other types of specialised translations. Unlike the language of engineering or medicine, legal ... -
Are Translators Really Subservient? Empirical Evidence from Lexical Transfer and Language Prestige in Curaçao
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)This paper examines whether translator subservience is generalisable among translators. Taking professional Curaçaoan Papiamentu translators as a case study built on a much larger work, the research looks at issues of ... -
Translation in Semantically-Restricted and Professional Domains: In Search of a Theory—Editorial to Ril 18.
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)This paper comments on selected problems related to the theory and practice of translation in various professional, and other semantically-restricted domains. The text introduces a selection of papers published in Research ... -
Cohesion in Polish-English Translation and Its Implications for Translator Training
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)This paper focuses on the ways of maintaining cohesive links in the translation process in the Polish-English language pair. Of primary interest is how the thematic/rhematic structure of Polish sentences can be successfully ...