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"Research in Language" (RiL) is an international journal committed to publishing excellent studies in the area of linguistics and related disciplines focused on human communication. Language studies, as other scholarly disciplines, undergo two seemingly counteracting processes: the process of diversification of the field into narrow specialized domains and the process of convergence, strengthened by interdisciplinarity. It is the latter perspective that RiL editors invite for the journal, whose aim is to present language in its entirety, meshing traditional modular compartments, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and offer a multidimensional perspective which exposes varied but relevant aspects of language, e.g. the cognitive, the psychological, the institutional aspect, as well as the social shaping of linguistic convention and creativity.
Nazwa główna: Research in Language
ISSN: 1731-7533
E-ISSN: 2083-4616
Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Format: Open Access (licencja CC BY-NC-ND)
Ukazuje się od: 2003 r.
Strona internetowa czasopisma / Journal website
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Challenges in translating autopsy reports
Pietrzak, Paulina
; (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)
This article examines the nature of medical documentation, specifically focusing on lexical and stylistic features of autopsy reports. It explores the challenges of translating autopsy reports based on the analysis of ... -
Reconsidering the Reliance on Functional Load: The Role of Phonetic Distance in Predicting L2 Segmental Substitutions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)Much research agrees that Functional Load (FL), i.e., the extent to which a phoneme pair distinguishes between different words in a language, is a useful feature to consider in prioritizing phoneme pairs for pronunciation ... -
The Metaphorical Imagery in Polish Legal Language: The Polish Civil Code
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)The present paper comments on the use of metaphorical imagery in The Polish Civil Code The theoretical background for analysis is cognitive linguistics in the tradition of researchers such as George Lakoff, Mark Turner, ... -
Chunking a Transcription of a Lecture to Help Students at EAP Courses Improve their Listening Comprehension Skill(S)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)Pre-sessional EAP courses in the UK welcome international students seeking admission to British universities. The official requirement for English language proficiency is typically determined by a student’s scores in the ... -
The Polysemy of Beside: The Correlation between TR and LM Syntactic Elaborations and Meaning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)The paper contributes to the discussion of the polysemy of spatial prepositions looking at the conceptual structure of the preposition beside. Introducing the syntactic criterion to the process of trajector/landmark ... -
Linguistic functions and indirect speech acts in tobacco products health warnings
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)The study incorporates the theory of linguistic functions (Jakobson 1960) and speech act theory (Austin 1962) to analyse the differences and similarities of the language used to produce health warning signs on tobacco-related ... -
Creativity in Meaning Construction and Translation – A Cognitive Perspective on the Humurous Language Used by Big Friendly Giant in Roald Dahl’s the BFG in its English, Polish and Portuguese Versions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)The paper explains how our mind creates a meaning in a wordplay. The model of mental maps (Author, 2020) based on the theory of conceptual blending (Fauconnier,1997, Fauconnier & Turner, 2002) and the geneplore model based ... -
“Can we do it Next Year?” The Impact of the Flipped Classroom Method on EFL Learning Performance
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)The flipped classroom (FC) method has been extensively adopted in STEM disciplines at the university level and garnered favorable results in synchronous learning, while less focus has been directed to its effectiveness in ... -
Frequent Phraseology as Pointers to Evaluation in Judicial Opinions: A Corpus-Driven Comparative Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)Using Sketch Engine to explore two sets of data, a corpus of US Supreme Court opinions and a corpus of opinions from Poland’s Trybunał Konstytucyjny (in literal translation: Constitutional Tribunal), this paper explores ... -
The Changing Landscape of Kapampangan Vocabularies: A Diachronic Analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)The study examined the evolution of the Kapampangan language over time through the use of historical texts, dictionaries, and linguistic tools, such as interview guides and word lists. Data were taken from 62 informants ... -
Constructing Change or Status Quo. An Analysis of Transitivity Choices in Polish Newspaper Headlines
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)This paper falls into the realm of critical discourse studies by exploring the relationship between particular discourse structures and their meaning as set against a particular socio-political context. To do that it takes ... -
Deep Listening: Transcribing Videos to Enhance Learners’ FL Listening Skills
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)Deep listening is an educational approach that involves a high degree of concertation to decode a message. Transcribing is one of the most usual activities within this approach. This research aims to assess the efficiency ... -
Students' Attitudes and Perceptions towards Learning EAP Courses during Emergency Remote Teaching: Insights and Implications
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic in the middle of the spring 2020 semester, many high education institutions were forced to move from face-to-face (FTF) teaching to remote instruction. The purpose of this study ... -
Selected Acoustic Features of the Welsh Lateral Fricative /ɫ/
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)The Welsh language exhibits a number of features uncommon from a cross-linguistic point of view, one of which is a relatively large number of fricative phonemes. This paper analyses selected acoustic features of the Welsh ... -
Exploring the Status of Voiceless Labiovelar Fricative /ʍ/ in Contemporary American English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)The study attempts to investigate the current status of the voiceless labiovelar fricative /ʍ/ in American English with reference to selected sociolinguistic variables, such as age, regional background, formality of the ... -
The Frames of Romance Scamming
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)This paper studies love fraud or romance scamming as scripted communication within a commercial transaction frame. The main participants are the seller (fraudster), buyer (victim), goods (long-term romantic relationship), ... -
The interface of real world, lexicalization and conceptualization on the example of the Contact Sense of the German preposition an (on, at) and its Polish Spanish and English counterparts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21)The paper takes up the issue of creating meanings, focusing the dynamic relation between lexicalization and conceptualization on the example of prepositions. By providing a systematic view of the specific meanings of the ... -
Examining Temporal Structure of Speech with a Local Articulation Rate Metric
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21)The primary goal of our study is to propose a method of calculating and visualising local articulation rate for research in temporal structure of speech. The method builds on proportional durations of vowels and consonants ... -
Exploring Pitch Accent as an Element of Fluency in L2 English Academic Presentations – a Proficiency-based Sampling Report
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21)The study explores the effectiveness of raising prosodic awareness in teaching academic presentations to a mixed proficiency group of adult Polish students majoring in English from the perspective of prosody as well as ... -
Julian of Norwich’s a Revelation of Love: A Grounded Cognition Approach to a Late Medieval Text
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21)Julian of Norwich was a late medieval anchoress and writer, whose work, The Showings, is known for its vivid imagery and bodily resonance it prompts in the reader. The paper identifies a gap in research on the embodied ...