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A realistic view of the past should provide a critical understanding of the present, in which discourse producers (including translators and interpreters) must be seen in their socio-political, cultural context. Communication is often hindered by linguistic, cultural,...
This book delves into the integration of Augmented Reality, gamification, digital storytelling, and other technologies, illustrating their impact on language learning and translation. Each chapter provides unique insights into practical applications, research...
In this book, Peirce’s logical apparatus is used to explain some topics in biology where traditional scientific methods fail to establish the relation between the real and the virtual in the genetic script, the irreducibility of evolution to the genome, and the...
This Dictionary is the first etymological dictionary of English imitative (onomato-poeic, mimetic) words. Imitative words (e.g. crash, bang, achoo) are words with iconic correlation between form and meaning, iconicity being a relationship of resemblance. The dictionary...
The book scrutinizes the language of Polish-origin Highlanders living in CarpathianBukovina. Krasowska has personal, direct knowledge of the life, culture, customs, andbehaviors of the group. Among many interesting conclusions she draws from the analysis,she considers...
Neste libro faise unha caracterización do verbo, xustifícanse as análises morfolóxicas do paradigma regular, dos verbos de irregularidade común e dos verbos de irregularidade propia na variedade galega do concello de Castrelo do Val (provincia de Ourense). O traballo...
A questão central subjacente a esta antologia sociolinguística é a de averiguar onde os falantes veem as fronteiras, os espaços e os pontos de transição no mundo lusófono. No presente volume, as teorias relevantes da dialetologia perceptual (Perceptual Dialectology) e...
The main purpose of the publication is to present a linguo-cultural picture of traditional values (such as the value of life, freedom, dignity, family, religion, community, truth, good, beauty, and God) reflected in Anglo-American and Polish paremiological units.The...
Im vorliegenden Band werden die Voraussetzungen, Mechanismen und Ergebnisse sprachlicher Variation und Vielfalt vorgestellt und diskutiert. Dies beginnt bei sprachlichen und kulturellen Kontakten und erstreckt sich über historische und geographische Bedingungen sowie...
In an era where accessibility is a key concern, this book provides a critical examination of live subtitling, which is essential for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing to access audiovisual media, including television. Through an analysis of subtitles from major Polish news...
The aim of this book is to provide a comparative analysis of intra- and inter- linguistic features, setting a benchmark for future typological studies. It contrasts cognitive and functional aspects of causative, agent-deprofiling, and resultative constructions in two...
This collective volume deals with the language of adventure tourism from different approaches, such as linguistics, semantics, and pragmatics. The papers selected delve into different languages (Spanish, English, and Italian), either with a monolingual or a bilingual...
This book focuses on scientific terminology and phraseology in research papers in the domains of new technologies which remain to be highly specialized means of communicating. It approaches scientific communication both from the theoretical and practical perspective...
This volume deals with the interplay between personal identity and language, with a special focus on interactions involving political correctness, ideological positioning and minority groups. Differently from many studies adopting only either an abstract observational...
This book intends to introduce recent studies on Turkish linguistics to a wide scientific readership of graduate students and scholars maximizing interdisciplinary contributions to the literature. The primary aim is to familiarise readers with useful and applicable...
This work examines the practice of reading aloud in the interactional context of adult participants engaging in an interface-mediated collaborative game activity. With a conversation analytic approach onto video data of user studies, empirical cases of reading aloud are...
This book presents an experimental study using eye-tracking methods and experimental pragmatics to examine the role of the Spanish connective a pesar de ello in the recovery of counter-argumentative and anaphoric relations. The book analyzes the processing patterns...
This book draws from graph theory and a semiotic comparison between language and distributed ledger technologies (also known as Blockchains) to motivate three experiments on language and network structure. The work explores the importance of this concept in different...
Synergy: Different Perspectives and Approaches in Postcolonial Studies aims at examining and exploring alternative perspectives to postcolonial studies. Accordingly, in the book, the use of postcolonialism in translation studies in literature, the Gothic, the colonial...
Human ratings are subject to various forms of error and bias. Since the early days of performance assessment, this problem has been sizeable and persistent. For example, expert raters evaluating the quality of an essay, an oral communication, or a work sample, often...
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