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The overall aim of the present article is to evaluate the potential of conceptual metaphors as reliable research tools to be applied in glottodidactics. The main premise adopted is the cognitive principle of inseparability between conceptual mechanisms on the one hand, and the richness of human experience on the other. Consequently, man and his language are viewed through the prism of multifarious...
The aim of the article is to consider the effectiveness of a cognitive linguistic approach towards teaching words characterized by many meanings. Traditional linguistics views lexical ambiguities in terms of ho-monymy, i.e. the phenomenon where two or more words happen to be written or pronounced the same way, while cognitive linguistics regards the fact in terms of polysemy whereby the meanings are...
This article is based on the results of a questionnaire survey conducted in a group of students from the Institute of German Studies at the University of Wroclaw, during a class on written translation. The survey provided me with material for reflection on the essence of the meaning of a linguistic sign, particularly the importance and meaning of the metaphorical expressions occurring in a text, as...
In my article I present Otto Gierke’s attempt to construct the phenomenon of legal entities using the means of analogy. The point of departure for my deliberations, in which I try to demonstrate the nature of metaphorical expressions used in building legal theories, is the speech given by Otto Gierke at the inauguration of his holding the post of university rector on 15 October 1902. The position...
The paper introduces an alternative concept of the investigations on metaphor reception, proposed within the framework of Critical Cognitive Linguistics by M. Schwarz, which presents the metaphor not only as a semantic-conceptual but also as an intentional and pragmatic phenomenon. The paper tries to explore what role metaphors play in the understanding of the migration crisis. In its main part it...
The two main topics discussed in this article are machine translation systems and metaphorical constructions translated by such systems. I briefly present the history of machine translation, its evolution and types of the most widespread engines, taking into account their architecture. I describe rule-based, statistical and neural machine translation, taking Translatica PWN, Google Statistical and...
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