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The paper presents selected distinctive features of Internet hypertexts. The main features of Internet hypertexts are: (i) non-linear structure, and (ii) the co-existence of text elements in tandem with other semiotic components, such as various images, graphic elements, music sequences, movie parts. The non-sequential structure of texts leads to their specific, selective and fragmentary reception...
This article outlines various concepts of ‘foreignness' in translation with special regard to its ontological and processual relativism. It presents an analytical discussion on foreignness, an important issue, which may be noticed in translation studies. It also discusses selected concepts of foreignness formulated by representatives of both translation studies and other disciplines, such as linguistic...
The modern linguo-didactics, which concentrates on the theory and practice of teaching Polish as the first (native) language, needs to consider numerous issues connected with the constantly evolving state of linguistic education at the dawn of the 21st century. The articles presents an overview of the most vital changes in the following contexts: the external general context (e.g. postmodernity, globalization,...
Phraseological units are an integral part of foreign language teaching. The present paper is an attempt to improve and describe the state of selected errors made by learners when they use idioms as fixed and restricted word combinations in language. The aim of the paper is to explain selected errors in written texts produced by learners of German as a foreign language in the neophilological education...
With reference to the research on the language of values and also the research on the poetics of sacrum, this article undertakes an attempt to answer the question relating to the system of values shown in the press articles referring to the two popes: the ‘Polish' John Paul II and his ‘German' follower Benedict XVI. Commented with pleasure in the press, the ambivalence of both Wojtyła and Ratzinger...
The article describes the phenomenon of pilot-controller communication as it is crucial for aviation safety. The author draws reader's attention to the fact that the communication in question is not always correct and it often fails leading to aviation accidents. In the fi rst part of the paper the problem and a short overview of research on aviation language are presented. Then the author discusses...
The concept of language competence has evolved over the decades from linguistic competence (Noam Chomsky) via communicative competence (Dell Hymes) to intercultural communicative competence (Michael Byram). The process of communication has attracted attention of numerous researchers from different disciplines: linguistics and applied linguistics, language education, ethnography and cross-cultural...
This article is a reflection on the current discussion concerning the relation ‘language vs thinking'. It has been inspired by the book ‘O relacji między myślą a językiem. Studium krytyczne stanowisk utożsamiających myśl z językiem' [On the Relation between Thought and Language. A Critical Study of Approaches that Identify Thought and Language] by Arkadiusz Gut (published by Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego...
In the age of the dynamic development of international relations, especially in economics and law, it is essential to train students of neophilological departments in translation of specialist texts. The article presents the place and role of specialist texts taking philological studies, especially occupational translatorics departments, as an examples. Specialist texts may be translated during taught...
The paper presents a new text type which became customary some years ago in German daily newspapers. The analysis is based on a corpus of more than 8000 texts, especially from ‘WAZ. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung'. The bimodal texts (containing verbal and non-verbal elements) combine family advertisements (marriage, announcement of birth) with very private personal messages. In this way intimate...
In this article the author describes the realization of the LLP international project: Subtitling and Language Learning. First, she presents the context of the realization of this project. The supposed importance of subtitles in LL still needs to be studied empirically. It is a longitudinal project at the European level with several languages and regarding different types of learners. Second, the...
Different traditions in various research circles and writing cultures cause that similarly sounding concepts and terms are frequently understood and interpreted in different ways. Even within the German Studies, we may notice considerable differences in understanding certain terminology. The term discourse serves as a good example as it is one of the most frequently occurring and passionately discussed...
Arabic belongs to the family of non-European Semitic languages, and is an inflectional and alternating type of language based on the consonant root. Its notation differs in characters and direction of writing from the Latin alphabet. Because of these features it is generally considered to be an exotic, extremely difficult language that poses impassable barriers in translation. The present article...
In the article the Author describes new research possibilities that have appeared before translational linguistics, thus expanding its empirical boundaries. Despite having a lot of potential in the field of translational linguistics, eye-tracking research is still considered to be an innovational research method, one with rather undefined explicatory possibilities. The aim of the article is an attempt...
The article relates to the problem of the nature and structure of human language capacity. The author addresses the fundamental questions of the place of the language and the role it plays among other cognitive faculties, such as perception, thinking, memory, attitude etc. She first presents a multidisciplinary character of the research programs dealing with selected specific and unique attributes...
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