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This article attempts to create a general and, out of necessecity, selective and up-to-date description of translation studies in Poland. The Author starts elaborating on the stages of the complicated development of translation studies with the presentation of facts in which translation studies has its origin. Further, the Autor describes the periodization of translation studies in the light of influence...
It is extremely difficult to defie the concept of interpreting strategies from a theoretical (description of interpreting process), practical (performing interpreting task) or didactic point of view (teaching how to solve interpreting problems). We are as yet unable to explicitly distinguish the features of such strategies that are characteristic of interpreting. In many studies strategies are commonly...
The aim of the article consists of defining the indices of Free Indirect Speech on a lexical level which detect it in the body of a text as a distinguished type of represented discourse. The lexico-semantic peculiarities of Free Indirect Speech are analysed in fiction, in particular, in the genre of short story. Throughout, the illustrations are drawn from W.S. Maugham's short story "Outstation"...
Artykuł ten prezentuje zagadnienia związane ze zjawiskiem tzw. domysłu leksykalnego i z przyswajaniem słownictwa podczas czytania ekstensywnego. Omówione są rodzaje wskazówek w tekstach, zarówno w tych specjalnie stworzonych jak i autentycznych, którymi powinni się uczniowie kierować. Wiele badań wskazuje na fakt, iż umiejętność domyślania się znaczeń słów w tekście niekoniecznie wiąże się jednak...
Artykuł dotyczy możliwości wykorzystywania anglojęzycznych seriali dokumentalno – fabularnych (TV courtroom shows) na zajęciach lektoratowych z języka angielskiego dla studentów Wydziału Prawa i Administracji UW. Autor przedstawia w skrócie historię telewizyjnych courtroom shows, a następnie wskazuje na możliwości ich wykorzystania w nauczaniu języka specjalistycznego, które integruje umiejętności...
The role of a translator in the translation process was defined a long time ago, yet, it is not always clear that the relationships of translation equivalence are entirely translator-depended. This means that a translator not only applies already existing equivalence relationships (potential translation equivalence), but he also creates such. The concept of translation transformation, mostly encountered...
Badania nad językami prawa prowadzą zarówno lingwiści, jak i prawnicy, każda grupa zawodowa w nieco innym zakresie. Prawnicy skupiają uwagę na instytucjach państwa i prawa, tworzeniu i stosowaniu przepisów prawa i na kwestiach (re)konstruowania norm prawnych. Lingwiści natomiast interesują się komunikacją językową w zakresie prawa w różnych kontekstach oraz istotą języków prawa występujących jako...
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...
The aim of this article is to explore the approach of multilingual learners to foreign language collocations. Firstly, the article demonstrates the importance of collocations for foreign language learners. Secondly, it presents language learning strategies and teaching techniques which can be applied in the process of learning and teaching collocations. Subsequently, the article focuses on previous...
The present article addresses the issue of pedagogical instruction in English grammatical tenses at higher levels of language proficiency. It describes a treatment design called 3-D grammar pedagogy or the Organic Approach Dedictivided which consists mainly in teaching the semantics of the said grammatical structures based on the assumption that formal accuracy is already given in the case of advanced...
Starting with questions about the definition of the language spoken in Austria, the author arrives at the anthropocentric theory of human languages with the basic concept of idiolect and polylect. From this point of view the differences in language use between Austria and Germany can not only be described, but also interpreted as differences between certain groups of idiolects. The fact that terms...
The author of this paper discusses the origins and development of integral psychology. He emphasises the fact that integral psychology creates a specific bridge between individual currents in psychology, offers the possibility to analyse their mutual relations, and provides the basis for more fruitful interaction. One of the assumptions of integral psychology is that conscience is material, meaning...
The article is intended to highlight the educationally neglected young learner potential for operational thinking about language and discuss language mosaic as the tool conducive to accomplishing this aim. It begins with a psychological and empirical justification for drawing children's conscious attention to formal properties of the L2 as opposed/compared to the L1. Consequently, language mosaic...
Communicating and supporting changes constitute a crucial field of interest for corporate communication. Changes in organizational culture is a challenge for internal communication to face as building organiza-tional culture entails changes in management processes, corporate strategies, values, symbols and relations as well as interactions among employees. Governing those spheres through communication...
This article focuses on the development of glottodidactics understood as a scientific discipline concerned primarily with teaching and learning foreign languages, as well as language acquisition, foreign language teacher training, and the design of teaching materials. We investigate the origins of glottodidactics and its gradual isolation from applied linguistics, we look at its research areas and...
The paper investigates the exposure of Polish learners of languages for legal purposes to popular culture, including different types of foreign law-related TV productions (feature films, series and TV courtroom shows) that could be exploited as authentic legal language teaching materials. An empirical study, inspired by a multinational research project into student views on the image of law and lawyers,...
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