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The following article is an attempt to polemize with some stereotypes about translating of technical texts. One of such stereotypes is that there are no polysemic and homonymic words in technical languages. On the grounds of the analysis there has been an attempt to show that the awareness of the specificity of the special languages with their vertical and horizontal stratification and of the complex...
The present paper aims at defining, on the background of the institutionalization of Cultural Studies at Polish and German Universities and the animated discussion about its status as a new autonomous scientific discipline, the specific object, the goals and the methods of Cultural Science („Kulturwissenschaft") from the point of view of F. Grucza's Anthropocentric Theory of Language. According...
In this article, different scientific fields are approached, and their common elements are compared. One field is philosophy, in particular the Socratic method, which from the ancient Greek remained as a commonly used tool in a wide range of discussions. It is a method of pedagogy which poses a number of questions not only to draw individual answers, but also to encourage fundamental insight into...
The paper is devoted to language phenomena connected with new mass media and analyzes in detail text and its new image shaped by the context of the media. It also attempts to answer the question concerning the relevance of methodology of Text Linguistics in describing this undoubtedly new phenomenon. Taking into account the contemporary research into this area the paper focuses on the so-called hyper-texts...
Although the approaches and methods of foreign language teaching have been changing, the problem of correcting oral mistakes is rather not discussed frequently in the literature. Researchers and practitioners agree that errors should be corrected/eliminated immediately in the learning process. However, there are still many doubts concerning when, in what way and by whom learners' errors should be...
This paper aims to focus and further develop the issue of the potential applicability of Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences for exploring some crucial issues concerning interpreting as well as problems emerging in interpreters' everyday professional life. The paper begins by presenting Gardner's theoretical assumptions referring to human intelligence. Gardner' s conceptual differentiation...
The main aim of this article is to present a method of analysis of texts from the field of languages for special purposes, worked out by a Burkhard Schaeder, and to use this method to analyze one chosen text from the field of economics: an offer. The conclusions from this analysis are thought to be used in teaching the German language of economics to the budding translators and interpreters. Budding...
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 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...
The aim of this article is to present selected results of translation analysis of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany into Polish. The Basic Law is the most important German legal act which determines legal order and division of powers. This article is divided into three parts. The fi rst part outlines general matters. The second part presents characteristics of legal texts and refers...
The article deals with selected aspects of Polish text linguistics research. It points to the diversity of defi nitions and the lack of clear criteria for the classifi cation of texts. There is also a lack of distinction between the text and the sentence or phrase, resulting from ambiguous features describing these terms. The article also indicates the variety of defi nitions of ‘coherence', ‘cohesion',...
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