Books in the Interfaces series

Questioning how readers construct meaning, this work focuses on the character Jonah and explores the variety of ways in which the prophet and the book have been represented and understood by various interpreters.

The human language, as perceived by an ecologically-minded linguist today, is a life process, operating within the pulsating grid of other life processes. This book discusses an ecological approach to communicational processes. It reports the fundamental shifts occurring after ecological views had been infused into the Social Sciences and Humanities.

This book analyzes the role and impact of experience, family, social networks, foreign work and study abroad programmes in the development of intercultural communication competence of Polish learners of English.

This book attempts to define the concept of the metrical foot in acoustic terms. It explores the possiblity that the foot can be described as a complex network of inter- and intravocalic relations between duration, pitch and intensity. The author also points out ways in which these empirical results may be incorporated into phonological theory.

The monograph argues for a return to a more fine-grained repertoire of tropes than the limiting analyses focused on metaphor or on the metaphor-metonymy duet. A list of ten master tropes is proposed, not only as candidates for tropological universals but also important text-forming strategies and a reflection of artistic imagination.

Cognitive linguistics offers tools to discuss philosophical problems of being and becoming (identity) as necessary or contingent. Major positions on these questions can be explained based on human counterfactual thought. Conceptualisations of "innovation" and "creation" in English (as instantiations of being and becoming) build on construal of time as actually experienced or figurative.

The book contains a philosophical justification of the solutions proposed in the field of contemporary linguistics. The author is based on the philosophical works of Karl Popper, Edmund Husserl and Izydora Dambska, and linguistic works of Noam Chomsky and Andrzej Boguslawski.

The aim of this volume is to provide an overview of diverse aspects of non-professional interpreting and translation in the media. It consists of a collection of essays by eminent international scholars and researchers from the field of Translation and Interpreting Studies, and focuses on television and film, radio, the Internet, and fansubbing.

The book presents the issue of impoliteness in media discourse found in television debates, films and computer-mediated communication. The research perspectives adopted in the book include prosody studies, corpus linguistics, neo-Gricean pragmatics, media studies and audiovisual translation.

Portraits of a Roman Governor

The Story and Soul of the Gerasene Demoniac

Jesus Ben Sira combines secular wisdom from Near Eastern wisdom sources and divine revelations from the Hebrew Bible to create the Book of Sirach. By applying from criticism to Ben Sira's book, the author provides students with historical information of the psychological and sociological context underlying Ben Sira's teachings.

Who should lead us? Who should we, as a community, look to for guidance? These questions followed the Israelite community upon their return from the Exile: Should they return with Davidic kingship or without it? Their answer was King Saul. Reading Israel's first king as a riddle or the epitome of Israel's experience with kingship, King Saul's Asking explores the characterization of the figure Saul, the question of the apparent silence of God, the multiple complexities of responsibility for kingship, and the readers' opportunities for transformation. It is not only an in-depth character study but also an interesting, insightful read, and opportunity for transformation.

Four Times Peter allows an intriguing portrait of this apostle to emerge. Readers discover a portrait of Peter that would have been familiar to the earliest Christian communities.