Books in the Lodz Studies in Language series

Includes: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk: Translation studies: Cognitive linguistics and corpora - Marcel Thelen: Translation studies: Terminology in theory and practice - Jeanne Dancette: Understanding translators' understanding - Kinga Klaudy: Specification and generalisation of meaning in translation.

The book brings to the fore the issue of collective identity and analyzes it from the linguistic perspective. Addressing the problem, the authors demonstrate ways in which the language we use in everyday life enables us to construct and perform in a flexible and context-bound manner the sense of our belonging in a community. They offer some rich data and present strong arguments in favor of qualitative methodologies for research in the field. Drawing on numerous interactional settings, and amongst different communities, the contributors shed new light on how our language practices and non-verbal behaviors mold our collective identities.

The book analyses a selection of British comedy productions (e.g. The Office, Extras, Carry On, etc.) by means of conceptual integration theory, aka blending, as proposed by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner. It shows that blending can successfully explain the origin of humour and thus it can be labelled as a potential linguistic theory of humour.

The volume is a collection of articles on aspects of audiovisual translation. These include subtitling, dubbing, voice-over, accessibility for the hearing- and vision-impaired, as well as translation in advertising.

The main topic of this volume is human interaction. It is approached from two complementary perspectives: the intrapersonal and the interpersonal. The intrapersonal view concerns issues like cognition, linguistic construal, metonymy, and the representation of motion and gestures. The interpersonal articles discuss the issue of identity.

Culture and language provide two essential frameworks to deal with the concept of time. Relying on empirical methods, the book explores language users' perception and conceptualization of time across such research domains as temporal processing, language acquisition, philosophy, literature, the arts, and non-verbal communication.

The volume contains papers focused on speech actions. The contributors analyse actional language integrating varied methodologies of cognitive linguistics and pragmatics. The papers are grouped into four sections which subsequently emphasise theoretical linguistics issues, lexical pragmatics, speech act-theoretic problems, and cognitive processes.

Dynamicity in Emotion Concepts

The concepts of Cognitive Linguistics offer considerable explanatory potential which can be used in accounts of translation, especially of subtitling as its more specifically constrained audiovisual mode. This book analyzes English-to-Polish subtitling data and applies cognitive semantic constructs to uncover patterns of construal reconfiguration.

Aimed at helping a wide community of researchers, language professionals and practitioners keep up to date with new corpus theories and methodologies as well as language-related applications of computational tools and resources. A selection of papers presented at the 8th edition of the Practical Applications in Language and Computers conference.

The twenty-two papers in this collection represent various cognitively-oriented approaches to the study of literary and persuasive texts. In this title, authors include both linguists and literary scholars, united by their interest in exploring the mental processes accompanying the creative production of meanings.

Explorations across Languages and Corpora

Offers a collection of articles that is a sociolinguistic response to the explosion of scholarly interest in issues of identity. This book tackles the problem of how personal identity is made visible and intelligible to others through language, and how this may be constrained.

Translators, law students or legal professionals who begin to deal with legal language face a bewildering variety of legal writings. This book provides a corpus-based linguistic description of variation among selected legal genres, including vocabulary distribution and use, extended lexical expressions, and lexico-syntactic co-occurrence patterns.

Offers a general and up-to-date overview of the wider discipline of Audiovisual Translation (AVT), including practices such as accessibility to the media. This book offers a selection of topics for discussion and reflection that will appeal to students, lecturers, researchers and professionals alike.

Includes papers that discusses broadly understood cognitive turns in the philosophy of language, inspired by the Chomskyan revolution in linguistics, Langacker's and Lakoff's Cognitive Linguistics, but also phenomenology, Relevance Theory and Classical Indian Philosophy.

Translating Audiovisuals in a Kaleidoscope of Languages addresses the challenges involved in translating multilingualism in film and TV fiction. It shows the complexities of using different languages, dialects and accents in different genres. This book includes the voices of researchers and professionals working with audiovisual multilingualism.

Includes: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk/Katarzyna Dziwirek: Emergence of Cognitive Corpus Linguistics - Piotr Pezik: Extraction of multiword expressions for corpus-based discourse analysis - Galina I. Kustova/Olga N.

Includes: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk: PALC 2007: Where are we now? - Paul Rayson/Dawn Archer/Alistair Baron/Nicholas Smith: Travelling through time with corpus annotation software - Eugene H. Casad: Parsing texts and compiling a dictionary with shoebox.

The book presents an application of inductive and deductive research modes in an analysis of political discourse. The discussion is illustrated with text samples from inaugural addresses of US presidents and various speeches given by prominent NATO politicians. It is argued that both analytic approaches have their inherent inadequacies, which poses a need for an integrated research mode. Also, numerous observations are made about the rhetoric of the analyzed text types.

Inspired by the idea that emotion(s) and motion(s) constitute profoundly intertwined dimensions of physical and cultural embodiment reflected in language, this volume comprises nineteen contributions presenting exploratory and applicative accounts of (e)motion(s) situated across a range of topical research areas.

Cognitive Processes in Language

This book studies the history of the Concise Oxford Dictionary from 1911 to recent times. By comparing samples from each edition of the dictionary, the study provides a detailed analysis of changes in its definition style, vocabulary selection, sense discrimination and other aspects of the dictionary structure.

This book focuses on matching theoretical predictions about language and cognition against empirical language data. The contributions use corpus linguistics methodology for their analysis.

The present volume is divided into two parts. The first part includes thirteen chapters and is devoted to the analysis of the interaction between cognition, emotion and language. The second part, comprising eight chapters, presents analyses of emotion, cognition and media discourse.

Translator education is a concept that requires comprehensive analysis in order to be appreciated. The volume reports on research from various educational environments and displays an array of statements on current translator education which are important for translators, translation scholars and particularly translator educators

The volume focuses on the structure, functions and motivations of signs across texts and genres. Applying various theoretical approaches, the contributors examine the dynamic interplay between the verbal, the visual and other semiotic modes as well as notions of identity, ideology and representation in literature, media and political discourse.

The book touches upon the issue of the consecutive interpreter's psycho-affectivity and shows how the subjective experience of anxiety, fear, language ego/language inhibition/language boundaries, extroversion/introversion, self-esteem, motivation and stress conditions the consecutive interpreter's performance and output quality.