Research in Language: Recent submissions
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Translating Korean Nature. Translation Strategies in Lithuanian and English Literary Translation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)World literatures today often impose a separation of narratives from their geographic and linguistic origins. Translated versions of literary texts that were created and received within local cultural contexts, when ... -
Translation Teaching and Cognitive Linguistics
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)This paper is mainly concerned with the implications of cognitive linguistics for translation teaching and pedagogy. It sets out to succinctly chart some presumed shortcomings of replacement-based pedagogical methods that ... -
Retelling Legends and Folk Tales: A Transcreative Approach in the Collaborative Translation Classroom
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)The objective of this paper is twofold: to present an authentic collaborative project devoted to the transcreation of different versions of Polish legends and folk tales (with eventual publication in an academic journal), ... -
Designing Collaborative Learning Environment in Translator Training: An Empirical Research
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)The present study aims to investigate the efficacy of the collaborative learning method on the translation skills of students at the undergraduate level through a new model developed by the researchers. To this end, a ... -
Collaborative Translation in the Digital Age
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)This study investigates the learning experiences of student translators participating in collaborative translation with and without the use of translation technology through collaborative translation teaching and practical ... -
Inside and Outside the Translation Classroom
Pietrzak, Paulina
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)
The article provides a glance at the continuing transformation in the profession of translators and its implications on translator training. The profile of the translatorhas never been unified but nowadays, following the ... -
The Influence of Level of Proficiency in the L2 and L3 on the Production of the L3 Spanish Apico-alveolar Sibilant
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-03-30)Current Third Language Acquisition research has traditionally focused on the L2 status (e.g. Hammarberg 2001, Bardel & Falk 2007) or linguistic proximity (e.g. Cenoz 2001, Westergaard, Mitrofanova, Mykhaylyk & Rodina 2016). ... -
"You Don't Have Time to Think Up There. If You Think You're Dead" – A Corpus-assisted Study of Discursive Strategies to Engage Readers in Corporate Blogs
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-03-30)This study investigates recurrent language resources employed in corporate blogs to connect with readers and (to a lesser extent) express authorial positions. It is based on the premise that constructing identity and ... -
Conflict – Crisis Hierarchy in English News Discourse: Cognitive Rhetorical Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-03-30)The paper argues that in English on-line news the meanings of the conflict and crisis terms serve as reference points for the construction of a confrontation hierarchy. It is based on the interaction of the relations of ... -
Performative Discourse of Drag Queens: A Sociolinguistic Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-03-30)The article presents the analysis of two speeches given by Rory O’Neill, also known as Panti Bliss, who is so far the most recognisable Irish drag queen. Apart from being a drag queen, Rory O’Neill is also a political ... -
The Impact of Cultural Experience of Two Translators on Literary Translation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-03-30)The main focus of this paper is to examine the translation strategies of the translators of Herta Müller’s novel Atemschaukel, Radka Denemarková (Czech) and Katarzyna Leszczyńska (Polish). The aim is to find out to what ... -
Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-03-30)Virtual communication transcends national boundaries and allows establishing and maintaining contacts efficiently. However, it also poses threats to integrity and ethical online conduct. In particular, dating sites and ... -
An Analysis of Certainly and Generally in Late-Modern English English History Texts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-06-30)This paper analyses the adverbs certainly and generally as stancetaking markers. These adverbial devices are said to show authorial stance and to communicate the author’s commitment or detachment towards the information ... -
Specialized Knowledge Representation: from Terms to Frames
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-06-30)Understanding specialized discourse requires the identification and activation of knowledge structures underlying the text. The expansion and enhancement of knowledge is thus an important part of the specialized translation ... -
Prosodically-conditioned Syllable Structure in English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-06-30)This paper investigates the interplay between the metrical structure and phonotactic complexity in English, a language with lexical stress and an elaborate inventory of consonant clusters. The analysis of a dictionary- and ... -
Poster, Poster on the Wall, Do You Really Mean it All? Decoding Visual Metaphor ‘Global Warming’ in Public Awareness Campaigns
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-06-30)The tendency to create messages using the elements belonging to different semiotic systems shifts our perception of a communicative act, contributing to the establishment of multimodal and intersemiotic communication ... -
Polish Migrant Community in Ireland: the Use of Irish English Slit-t
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-06-30)In any migratory context individuals are faced with several challenges as a result of having to live in a different geographical location, function in a different cultural setting and use a different language. The migrants’ ... -
The Vowel System of Podhale Goralian
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-06-30)This paper is a report on the phonological research done in the past two years investigating Podhale Goralian. The data are drawn from our informants in Dzianisz. The paper establishes the system of surface contrasts in ... -
Metaphors and Legal Language: a Few Comments on Ordinary, Specialised and Legal Meaning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-09-30)The present text offers a few comments on the metaphorical dimension of legal language and the nature of legal language as such. The authors discuss selected metaphors in the context of the Polish legislation with the aim ... -
In-Service Primary School Teachers’ Account of Phonetically Difficult Words in English as a Foreign Language
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-09-30)This article presents and discusses a mixed-method study that seeks to establish a set of words in the English language that in-service primary school teachers consider difficult to pronounce by young learners of English ...