Philosophy of language Books

Book SynopsisThe papers in this collection discuss broadly understood cognitive turns in the philosophy of language, inspired by the Chomskyan revolution in linguistics, Langacker’s and Lakoff’s Cognitive Linguistics, but also phenomenology, Relevance Theory and Classical Indian Philosophy. The individual texts investigate, from different angles, the relations between philosophy of language and linguistics, and contribute to the development of theoretical frameworks for studying language. Most of the contributions were presented at the first International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, PhiLang2009 (University of Łódź, May 2009).Table of ContentsContents: Piotr Stalmaszczyk: Turning Points in the Philosophy of Language and Linguistics. Preface – Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt: Time as Degress of Epistemic Commitment – Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk: Events as They Are – Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez/Francisco Gonzálvez-García: Illocutionary Meaning Revisited: Subjective Transitive Constructions in the Lexical Constructional Model – Janusz Badio: Simulation Semantics: A Synopsis – Tomasz Ciszewski: The End of Phonology: Some Philosophical Implications – Maria Jodłowiec: Metarepresentation and Language: A Relevance Theoretic Approach – Andrew Jorgensen: Understanding Semantic Scepticism – Henryk Kardela: Ludwik Fleck’s Thought Style Revisited. Where Do Facts in Linguistics Come From? – Krzysztof Kosecki: Do Mechanisms and Abstract Ideas Have Inner Lives? The Concepts of Subject and Self in English Personification Metaphors – Jakub Mácha: Metaphor in the Twilight Area between Philosophy and Linguistics – Ratikanta Panda: Is Anything Static About Meanings? A Wittgensteinian Perspective – Wiktor Pskit: Categories and Constructions in Current Syntactic Theory – Monika Rymaszewska-Chwist: So Who Is Right? In Search of Philosophy behind Cognitive Science – Sławomir Wacewicz: Concepts as Correlates of Lexical Items – Lei Zhu: Sound, Body and Writing: A Phenomenological View of Linguistics as Representation of Speech – Przemysław Żywiczyński: Classical Indian Philosophy of Language.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents cutting-edge research into the complex interrelationships between linguistic diversity and ideology. It provides insight into how institutions and individual stakeholders carry ideologies forward into the discursive space through policies, propaganda or individual perceptions and reflections. The chapters focus on different European localities (UK, Central Europe, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Italy), social actors (migrant communities, citizens, and policy-makers), and institutional contexts such as public bodies (European, national) and private enterprises. Understanding ideology as a social act of conceptualization, the book contributes to the growing interdisciplinary body of linguistic research into the social theory of meaning and change.Table of ContentsContents: Erzsébet Barát/Patrick Studer/Jiří Nekvapil: Approaching the study of language use and ideology: An introduction – John B. Trumper/Marta Maddalon: Local - global - glocal: Trends in the creation of linguistic prestige and ideology – Rik Vosters: Dutch, Flemish, or Hollandic? Social and ideological aspects of linguistic convergence and divergence during the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815–1830) – Julia de Bres: Language ideologies for constructing inclusion and exclusion: Identity and interest in the metalinguistic discourse of cross-border workers in Luxembourg – Jiří Nekvapil/Tamah Sherman: Language ideologies and linguistic practices: The case of multinational companies in Central Europe – Jaine Beswick: Ideology and language: Assumed and authentic linguistic practices of Portuguese migrants in workspaces on Jersey – Vít Dovalil: Ideological positioning in legal discourses on European multilingualism: Equality of languages as an ideology and a challenge – Mi-Cha Flubacher: Language(s) as the key to integration? The ideological role of diglossia in the German-speaking region of Switzerland – Patrick Studer: Management of language ideologies in informal language planning episodes – Erzsébet Barát: The differentiation of linguistic and cultural diversity: A critical analysis of ideological investments of migrants’ desire for belonging – Patrick Studer: In dialogue with Ivana Marková: Linguistics and social representations.

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Book SynopsisThe main focus of this volume is on urbanity as a discursive way of human life in the city. Discourse is specified here in terms of semiotic codes and processes that link city dwellers as communicating selves into interpersonal and intersubjective collectivities when they create and interpret similar meanings embodied in material bearers. Accordingly, the unfolding of the semiotic web is understood, firstly, as detecting and evaluating the growth and manifestation of the sphere of meaning-bearers or a sequence of meaning-bearing events, and secondly, as identifying and explaining the constituents and aspects of discourse in the light of signs and/or sign-processes that aggregate individual participants of communication into discursive linkages on a lower level and discursive communities – on a higher level of social grouping. Some contributions deal with the discursive properties of human individuals in urban environments, and some others are devoted either to the meta-discourses on the city or discourses in the city.Table of ContentsContents: Richard L. Lanigan: On homeworld and community models of the city: The communicology of egocentric and sociocentric cultures in urban semiotics – Zdzisław Wąsik: Towards an idea of urbanity as a discursive way of human life in the city - developing a conceptual framework – Daina Teters: The city as a space and the space in the city: A semiotic inquiry into the formation of Riga – Zdzisław Wąsik: Roots and varieties of functionalist discourses in the understanding of linguistic functions – Elżbieta Wąsik: Linguistic functionalism and the principle of abstractive relevance in the metaurbanist discourse on art and architecture – Richard L. Lanigan: Slugging: The nonce sign in an urban communicology of transportation – Camelia Cmeciu/Doina Cmeciu: New insights into corporate social responsibility: The semiotic act of experiencing a city through street naming – Daina Teters: Imaginary architecture and the verbal description of emptiness: Paths, roads, and streets - a research communiqué – Ioana Boghian: The semiotics of urban space and architecture in literary discourse of the Victorian period – Józef Zaprucki: On the historical interference in the urban discourse - a research communiqué (on the basis of Jelenia Góra and Karkonosze mountains region).

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Book SynopsisThe articles in this volume investigate everyday textual material of sociolinguistic landscapes in the early 21st century. Sociolinguistic landscapes reflect societal change, and they enable observers to map what linguistic resources are used in various contexts and to study how these resources interact and are interpreted. The articles present not only quantitative results of the presence of languages in signs but also look into how authors and designers make use of an endless pool of linguistic resources, how visible semiotic items contribute to create a sense of space, what types of mental processes are involved in the production, and how various audiences (residents, occasional passers-by, and language regulators) interpret and construct signs and sociolinguistic landscapes to form their own understanding of semiotic space.Trade Review«This is a recommended book for scholars who are interested in the linguistic landscape of Europe […].» (Teresa Ong, Linguist List Feb. 2016)Table of ContentsContents: Mikko Laitinen/Anastassia Zabrodskaja: Dimensions and dynamics of sociolinguistic landscapes in Europe – Hagen Peukert: Urban linguistic landscaping: Scanning metropolitan spaces – Amei Koll-Stobbe: Ideofiers in the commercial city: A discursive linguistic landscape analysis of hairdressers’ shop names – Karine Stjernholm: Two faces of Oslo: A comparative study of the sense of place – Mikko Laitinen: English on the move: What’s beyond modernity and internationalism? – Mia Halonen: Social media landscapes: Tracing the uses and functions of a hybrid sign – Christoph Marx/Marek Nekula: Constructing a cross-border space through semiotic landscapes: A case study of a German-Czech organization – Petteri Laihonen: Linguistic landscapes of a minoritized regional majority: Language ideologies among Hungarians in South-West Slovakia – Sebastian Muth: «Ruralscapes» in post-Soviet Transnistria: Ideology and language use on the fringes of a contested space – Olga Bever: Linguistic landscapes as multimodal and multilingual phenomena – Monica Perotto: The presence of the Italian language in the linguistic landscapes of Moscow.

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Book Synopsis Almost everything that one claims about meaning is likely to be questioned or disputed. Translation studies also abound in numerous controversies. However, there is no doubt that translations entail a transfer of meaning, even if the exact sense of the word "meaning" remains vague. The same applies to the term "translation equivalence". This book is an attempt to cope with conceptual, terminological, theoretical, and practical difficulties resulting from this nebula of issues. Numerous examples of translated legal, religious and artistic texts are provided to substantiate the claim that translation equivalence, except in the most trivial sense of the term, is indeed a delusion. The book is addressed to all those persons who are interested in mutual relations between semantics and translation studies.Table of ContentsVarious aspects of meaning – Terminological chaos – The "phases of matter" metaphor of meaning – Translation and related activities – Translation equivalence delusion – Direct and indirect translation – Translating various kinds of texts – Translation accuracy

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses an ecological approach to communicational processes. Raising consciousness about being green is not the only concern of present-day ecological linguistics. Ecolinguistics, with its attention focused on ecosystems as well as contexts of language and communication, probes deep into the core of not only modern linguistics but modern science in general, while relating to conceptions of the world as well as to the scientific method itself. Thus, when ecological thinking is applied to science, it eventually will incite a methodological and philosophical rethinking. This study reports the fundamental shifts occurring after ecological views had been infused into the Social Sciences and Humanities. The substance of various qualities, from the very dense and tangible, to subtle mental or cognitive non-matter, becomes an ecosystem for human language on both a very direct, material plane, as well as on the non-material plane. In fact, human language, as perceived by an ecologically-minded linguist today, is a life process, operating within the pulsating grid of other life processes.Table of ContentsContents: Ecolinguistics – New linguistics – New paradigm in language and communication studies – Mind – Meaning as a process – Cognitive processes – Communication – Interdisciplinary linguistics.

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Book SynopsisThe book proposes a multi-perspective analytical model for the understanding of corporate identity meanings embedded in historical discourse for the web. The suggested theoretical framework conflates methodological perspectives derived from Discourse Analysis, Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics. The contribution of Cognitive Linguistics to the proposed analysis is based on two main assumptions. First, the lack of principled distinction between semantics and pragmatics, whereby meaning is a function of the activation of conceptual knowledge structures in context. Second – and this is crucial for hypertext analysis – language, as the outcome of general properties of cognition, is closely related to visual perception. The originality of this approach to web discourse analysis resides in the deployment of tools considering the cross-modal integration of different resource systems. It also offers interpretive keys for the understanding of mechanisms underlying the formatting of the message as a multimodal construct. The empirical analyses presented in the book illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodological approach.Table of ContentsContents: Spatiotemporality – Cognitive linguistics – Discourse analysis – Multi-perspective analytical model – Corporate identity meanings – Timelines – Multimodal space-time artefacts for the web – Blending theory – Spatiotemporal tools for information visualization – Web corporate histories – Multidisciplinary approaches to organizational discourse.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains papers which reflect current discussions in the study of speech actions. The collection was inspired by the papers presented at Meaning, Context and Cognition, the first international conference integrating cognitive linguistics and pragmatics initiated by the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics of the University of Łódź (Poland) in 2011 and held annually. The necessarily heterogeneous field of research into speech actions is approached by the contributors from various perspectives and with focus on different types of data. The papers have been grouped into four sections which subsequently emphasise theoretical linguistics issues, lexical pragmatics, speech act-theoretic problems, and cognitive processes.Table of ContentsContents: Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka: Editorial – Kepa Korta/Maria Ponte: On Times and Contents – Hiroyuki Uchida/Nicholas L Cassimatis: Reasoning Without Explicit Quantifiers – Chris Cummins: Violable Constraints and Scalar Implicature Strength – Tahir Wood: Context, Topic and the Resolution of Polysemy – Joana Garmendia: A Pragmatic Analysis of the Basque Particle «ote» – Larraitz Zubeldia: Particles Versus Verbs as Reporting Devices: Their Truth-conditional Contributions – Matylda Weidner: Towards an Interactional Grammar of Polish: Yes/No Questions and Their Design – Jonathan R. White: The Pragmatics of Reduced Forms in an Internet Community of Practice – Jesús Navarro-Reyes: Intention and Responsibility in Speech Acts – Nicolas Ruytenbeek: Are Indirect Speech Acts Always Conventional? – Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup: Conceptual Development and the Emergence of Meaning in a Congenitally Blind Child’s Lexicon – Kamila Dębowska-Kozłowska: Intuitive and Reflective Inferencing in Counter-argument Processing – Ewa Wałaszewska: The Butcher-Surgeon Metaphor Revisited: Ad hoc Concepts and Blends.

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Book SynopsisCulture and language provide two essential frameworks to deal with the concept of time. They view time as observer-determined and thus shed light on multiple and often conflicting temporalities we live in, think, and talk about. Relying on empirical methods, the book explores linguistic and psychological parameters of time perception and conceptualization. It deals, among others, with temporal aspects of language acquisition, neural mechanisms of memory and attention, as well as event structures. Further chapters focus on the understanding of time in philosophy, literature, the arts, and non-verbal communication.Table of ContentsContents: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk/Krzysztof Kosecki: Introduction – Argiro Vatakis: TIMELY: A Network on Timing and Time Perception – Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk: Time and Time Experience in Language – Dwight Holbrook: Is Present Time a Precondition for the Existence of the Material and Public World? – James Moir: Time to Talk – Jacek Waliński: Complementarity of Space and Time in Motion-Framed Distance – Jacek Waliński: Atemporality of Coextension Paths – Janusz Badio: Temporal Parameters of Narrative Events: a Study of Unitizing a Videotaped Activity and its Verbal Coding – Jerzy Tomaszczyk: Investigating Perceptions of Lexical Obsolence – Martina Ivanová: Evidentiality and Temporal Perspective of Utterance – Joanna Latkowska: Creating the Timeline in English Narratives: the Bilingual Perspective – Dan Zakay/Dida Fleisig/Neta David: Prospective Timing During Conversations – Anna Esposito/Antonietta M. Esposito/Marilena Esposito: On Distinctive Visual and Auditory Timing Cues in Language Tasks – Andrzej Bogusławski: A Brief Account of a Negation Theory of the Slavonic Verbal Aspects – John Newman/Kristina Geeraert: TIME in a Semantically-annotated Corpus of Canadian English – Joanna Pawliczak: Time Metaphors in English - a Corpus-based Study – Krzysztof Kosecki: Metaphorical and Metonymic Representations of Time in Polish Sign Language – Agnès Leroux: Duration in English and in French: a Linguistic Description of the Relation Between a Process and a Time Interval – Michał B. Paradowski: Enhancing the Acquisition of Foreign-language Tense Properties – Valery Lichev: Relativity of Time in Belles-lettres – Jacek Wiśniewski: When does an Era End? The Example of British Great War Poetry – Jadwiga Uchman: Time and Drama - the Last Soliloquy in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus – Sonia Front: «Absent Presence» - Quantum Time and Quantum Consciousness in Wilson Harris's Palace of the Peacock – Selga Goldmane: Translation of Time: from Literary Work to Screen in Stanley Kubrick’s Films – Karen Heald/Susan Ligget: Time and the Chora: «Transitory Strata» and «in-between-ness» within «Dream Films» – Magdalena Zegarlińska: «In the Darkness of Future Past». Time in David Lynch’s Films.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of papers focuses on cognitive metaphor research (CMR) from the perspective of the current debate on linguistic data and evidence. The peculiarity of the book is that it reveals the causes that trigger the methodological problems of data handling in CMR. These problems include the identifiability of metaphors in discourse and the reliability of the methods of gathering metaphors such as linguistic intuition, discourse analysis, corpus analysis, and psycholinguistic experiments. In order to overcome their weaknesses and to enhance their reliance, the papers argue, on the one hand, for the combination of different methods of gathering and evaluating data in CMR. On the other hand, the papers also point out that converging evidence cannot be obtained without constraining the combinability of data stemming from different sources.Table of ContentsContents: Cognitive metaphor research – Methodological problems of data handling – Metaphor intuition – Psychological experiments – Corpus linguistic methods – Converging evidence – Conceptual metaphor – Relevance theory – Hybrid theories in metaphor research.

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Book SynopsisThe book is not only dedicated to linguists, but also to readers who are not familiar with notations developed in linguistics. The first part of the study presents philosophical justifications for linguistic settlements. These are based on the phenomenological reduction of Edmund Husserl, Karl R. Popper’s falsificationism, the moderate rationalism of science of Izydora Dąmbska and Andrzej Bogusławski’s lack of the nomological explanation in linguistics. The second part presents a re-examination of the solutions proposed in the field of linguistics, some new philosophical explanations and a discussion of the truth of linguistic propositions.Table of ContentsContents: Rational linguistics – Methodology of linguistics – Philosophy of linguistics – Grammatical description of Polish language – The philosophical justification of the solutions proposed and adopted in the field of contemporary linguistics.

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Book SynopsisAudiovisual translation continues to be a dynamically developing genre, stimulated by interdisciplinary research and technological advances. This volume presents recent developments in the area. Renowned scholars in the field discuss aspects of captioning, revoicing and accessibility, as well as research methods such as eyetracking. The discussion occasionally departs from the confines of audiovisual translation proper, to tackle related areas such as translation for advertising purposes.Table of ContentsContents: Łukasz Bogucki/Mikołaj Deckert: Introduction – Rebeca Cristina López González: Dubbing intertextuality in Dreamworks animated films – Ilaria Parini: Cultural and linguistic issues at play in the management of multilingual films in dubbing – Iwona Sikora: Taming the foreign in Polish dubbing of animated films – Janusz Wróblewski: Translating the unsaid and not translating the said – Aleksandra Beata Makowska: Challenging the stereotypes of male social roles in advertising. A case study in car adverts placed on Polish television – Gary Massey/Peter Jud: Teaching audiovisual translation with products and processes: subtitling as a case in point – Barbara Szymańska/Monika Zabrocka: Audio description as a verbal and audio technique of recapturing films – Anna Jankowska/Martyna Mentel/Agnieszka Szarkowska: Why big fish isn’t a fat cat? Adapting voice-over and subtitles for audio description in foreign films – Anna Rędzioch-Korkuz: Media accessibility and opera in Poland – Magdalena Kizeweter: Voices about Polish voices in foreign films: using an Internet forum as a source of information about the opinions of Polish viewers on dubbing as a mode of AVT – Agnieszka Szarkowska/Monika Laskowska: Poland - a voice-over country no more? A report on an online survey on subtitling preferences among Polish hearing and hearing-impaired viewers – Paweł Korpal: Eye-tracking in Translation and Interpreting Studies: the growing popularity and methodological problems.

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Book SynopsisThis volume constitutes the first anthology of texts in cognitive semiotics – the new transdisciplinary study of meaning, mind and communication that combines concepts and methods from semiotics, cognitive science and linguistics – from a multitude of established and younger scholars. The chapters deal with the interaction between language and other semiotic resources, the role of consciousness and concepts, the nature of metaphor, the specificity of human evolution and development, the relation between cognitive semiotics and related fields, and other central topics. They are grouped in four sections: (i) Meta-theoretical perspectives, (ii) Semiotic development and evolution, (iii) Meaning across media, modes and modalities, (iv) Language, blends and metaphors.Table of Contentsphenomenology – concepts – agency – design – semiotics of science – onset of language – symbol grounding – found symbols – mindreading – evolution – protolanguage – mimesis – gestures – impoliteness – symmetrical reasoning – pictorial responses – visual graphics – legal discourse – metaphor – multimodality – vision-language interface – grammar

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Book SynopsisRelevance Theory provides an original theoretical framework to capture the complex nature and intricacies of the processes underlying ostensive communication. The model has been in constant development for the last 30 years, and this study attempts to contribute to it by challenging free enrichment as an important explicature-generation procedure. The mechanisms underlying the recovery of explicitly and implicitly communicated meanings are explored in this book. They show that by approaching communication as a creative process, Relevance Theory offers a coherent explanation not only of communication in which what is conveyed is relatively straightforward and easy to identify, but also of cases in which what is communicated is partly precise and partly vague.Table of ContentsContents: Relevance Theory – Explicature – Implicature – Contextual assumptions – Relevance-theoretic comprehension heuristic – Free enrichment – Contextual cognitive fix – Strong communication – Weak communication – Speaker’s intentions – Mental representation – Depth of utterance processing – Shallow interpretation.

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Book SynopsisCognitive linguistics provides tools to discuss identity as a process. Identity depends on the underlying conceptualisation of the present, while innovation and creation are borderline phenomena in epistemology. The two may be seen as generalised accounts of causation as a process: open-ended and closed, where time is conceptualised as real or figurative. Aristotle’s epistemology builds on the conceptualisation of a subject manipulating objects in the visual field. Saint Augustine and Plotinus conceive of time and identity as real and contingent or figurative and necessary. William of Ockham builds on a simple conceptualisation of a time-point matrix as opposed to a duration matrix. British National Corpus findings relate to and comment on these expert philosophical conversations through the medium of cognitive models of «innovation» and «creation», instruments of thought and reason in English.Table of ContentsContents: Substantive identity – Process identity – Conceptualisation of the present – Concept elaboration – Counterfactuals – Time-point matrix – Duration matrix – Cognitive Model of the Present – Contingency and neccesity in causality – Innovation – Creation.

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Book SynopsisCurrent developments of the Minimalist Program in generative linguistics put the procedure of labeling syntactic objects at the center of the syntax–semantics transition. This book provides a discussion of consequences of such proposals for a proper analysis of different varieties of the operation Merge and their interpretive reflexes, as well as for the general theory of the syntax–semantics relationship. It argues that the absence of substitutional operations in Narrow Syntax should restrict the range of admissible interpretive operations on adjunction structures in the conceptual-intentional component. It also debates that syntactic chains are subject to interpretive procedures properly analyzed with the help of counterpart-theoretic concepts.Table of ContentsProperties of the labeling algorithm and the theory of feature interpretability – External and internal merge and their consequences for operations at the interface of syntax and the C-I component – The relevance of the evolutionary emergence of the syntactic component for the emergence of distinctively human cognitive capacities

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Book SynopsisThe book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the cognitive-semiotic interface between language, literature, and the arts, with a special focus on creativity and imagination. It brings together international contributors suggesting a wide range of innovative perspectives on the correlation between verbal discourse and creative artefacts. The book reveals the specificity of such phenomena as parallax, transparency, corporeal imagination, and multimodality. Alongside interpreting artistic texts, the contributors search for cognitive and semiotic manifestations of creativity in political and everyday discourse.Table of ContentsLanguage, Literature, Works of Art: The Texts of Our Experience – Philosophy, Language and the Arts – Literature, Music and the Visual Arts – The Art of Translation, Translation among the Arts – Linguistics and Semiotics of Creativity

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Book SynopsisThis volume is concerned with issues in experimental philosophy and experimental linguistics. Examining experiments in language from a variety of perspectives, it asks what form they should take and what should count as evidence. There is particular focus on the status of linguistic intuitions and the use of language corpora. A number of papers address issues of methodology in experimental work, while other contributions examine the use of thought experiments and what the hypothetical can tell us about the actual. The aim of this collection is to bring together the work of linguists and philosophers in order that they may learn from one another, and to help both groups understand how the use of experimental methods can affect the arguments they employ and the claims they make.Table of ContentsContents: Martin Hinton: Introduction – Geoffrey Sampson: Two Ideas of Creativity – Katarzyna Paprzycka: Methodological Reflections on Academic and Experimental Philosophy: The Case of the Omissions Account – Mark Pinder: Folk Semantic Intuitions, Arguments from Reference and Eliminative Materialism – Anna Drożdżowicz: Speakers’ Intuitions about Meaning Provide Empirical Evidence - Towards Experimental Pragmatics – Roland Bluhm: Corpus Analysis in Philosophy – Leszek Szymański: The Interaction of Negated Must and Grammatical Aspect in Contemporary American English - an Empirical Contribution to Aspect-modality Interaction Studies – Martin Hinton: Lies, Damned Lies and Linguistic Intuitions – Martin Vacek: Possible Worlds and Advanced Modalizing Problems – Lukáš Bielik: Thought Experiments in Semantics – Arkadiusz Gut/Michał Wilczewski: The Role of Language in the Emergence of Mature Belief Reasoning and Social Cognition.

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Book SynopsisThis book deals with the main proponents of the causal and descriptivist reference theories on natural kind terms. The two main types of contemporary reference theories on natural kind terms are the causal and the descriptivist theories. The author analyzes the main versions of these two types of theories and claims that the differences between them are not as great as it is usually assumed. He alleges that the ostensive reference fixing and reference borrowing theories should be descriptive-causal, and he also adduces that the relation of kind-identity depends on the views on kind-identity and thus involves descriptive elements. This book is an important contribution to the debate on reference in contemporary philosophy of language and linguistics.Table of ContentsReference – Reference fixing – Reference borrowing – Natural kind – Natural kind term – Substance term – Causal theory – Descriptivist theory – Essentialism – Kind-identity – Microstructuralism – J. Locke – J.S. Mill – G. Frege – B. Russell – S. Kripke – H. Putnam – J. Searle – P.F. Strawson – F. Jackson – M. Devitt

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Book SynopsisThe study of language becomes particularly attractive when it is not practised as an isolated descriptive enterprise, but when it has wide-ranging implications for the study of the human mind. Such is the spirit of this book. While categorisation may be the single most basic cognitive process in organisms, and as an area of inquiry, it is fundamental to Cognitive Science as a whole, at the other end of the spectrum, high-level cognition is organised and permeated by language, giving rise to categories that count and function as concepts. Working from considering the philosophical assumptions of the cognitivist perspective, this study offers an argument for a very productive understanding of the relation between concepts, categories, and their theoretical models.Table of ContentsContents: Cognitive Science – Interdisciplinarity – Internalism and externalism – Concept – Category – Categorization – Mental representation – Conceptual atomism – Prototype models – Exemplar models.

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Book SynopsisPapers in this collection provide philosophical and linguistic analyses of reference. The topics discussed include different types of reference, problems of identity, indexicality, reference fixing and descriptions. Other issues covered in individual chapters concern events and the event-argument hypothesis, predicate reference, definite descriptions, contextualism, types of quantifications, faultless disagreement, vagueness, reference in minimalism, and the reference system for coding spatial information in Hausa. The contributions discuss the approaches proposed by Gottlob Frege, Donald Davidson, and Saul Kripke, and contribute to the debate on reference in contemporary philosophy of language and linguistics.Table of ContentsContents: Philosophy of language – Linguistics – Sense – Reference – Events – Proper names – Identity – Indexicality – Context – Vagueness – Faultless disagreement – Semantics – Max Black – Gottlob Frege – Donald Davidson – Hausa.

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Book SynopsisThe articles in this collection focus on philosophical approaches to proper names. The issues discussed include abstract names, empty names, naming and name-using practices, definite descriptions, individuals, reference, designation, sense and semantics. The contributions show the importance and lasting influence of theories proposed by John Stuart Mill, Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Donald Davidson, and Saul Kripke. Individual chapters assess traditional analyses and modern controversies, and contribute to the debate on proper names in contemporary philosophy of language.Table of ContentsContents: Luis Fernández Moreno/Piotr Stalmaszczyk: Introduction: Philosophical Approaches to Proper Names – Manuel García-Carpintero: Predicativism and the Mill-Frege Theory of Proper Names – Dolf Rami: Names, Naming and Name-Using Practices – Stefano Predelli: Millian Dubbings: A Double-Context Approach to Name-Types – Eros Corazza/Dylan Hurry/Ryan Rafferty: On Naming: Frege Deconstructed vs. Perry Reconstructed – André Bazzoni: Names and Individuals – Marián Zouhar: Against Descriptivism: On an Essential Difference between Proper Names and Definite Descriptions – Michael McKinsey: Truths Containing Empty Names – Siu-Fan Lee: Can There Be a Davidsonian Theory of Empty Names?

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Book SynopsisWhile multimodality is one of the most influential semiotic theories for analysing media artefacts, the concepts of this theory are heterogeneous and widespread. The book takes the differences between approaches in Germany and those in international contexts as a starting point, offering new insights into the analysis of multimodal documents. It features contributions by researchers from more than 15 nations and various disciplines, including theoretical reflections on multimodality, thoughts about methodological, empirical, and experimental approaches as well as analyses of various multimodal artefacts.Trade Review«Overall, the volume provides rich information on approaches to multimodal research, which can be readily adopted by discourse analysts. Furthermore, the interdisciplinary theoretical innovations in the book shed light on potential methodological developments for discourse studies.» (Yiqiong Zhang, Discourse Studies 19(3), 2017)Table of ContentsContents: Janina Wildfeuer: Bridging the Gap between Here and There: Combining Multimodal Analysis from International Perspectives – Diane Mavers: Issues in Multimodality: Reflecting on Definitions, Transcription, and Analysis – Hartmut Stöckl: From Text Linguistics to Multimodality: Mapping Concepts and Methods Across Domains – Alina Kwiatkowska: Cognitively Oriented Semiotics as a Common Descriptive Framework for Pictorial and Verbal Representation – Ognyan Seizov: Spotlight on the Image: Adding the Missing Visual Piece to the Multimodal Puzzle – Sandra Handl: Visual Rhetoric and Cognitive Semantics: The Relevance of Entrenched Conceptual Patterns for the Reconstruction of Visual and Multimodal Arguments – Anna Mattfeldt: Conflicts and Pictures: A Study of Images and Agonality in Discourse – Shaimaa El Naggar: Multimodality in Perspective: Creating a Synergy of the Discourse Historical Approach and the Framework of Visual Grammar – Wendy L. Bowcher: Structure and Multimodal Texts – Simone Ponzetto/Hartmut Wessler/Lydia Weiland/Stephan Kopf/Wolfgang Effelsberg/Heiner Stuckenschmidt: Automatic Classification of Iconic Images Based on a Multimodal Model: An Interdisciplinary Project – Marc Debus/Heiner Stuckenschmidt/Hartmut Wessler: On the Use of Different Modalities in Political Communication: Evidence from German Election Manifestos – Martin Kaltenbacher/Thomas Kaltenbacher: Seeing the Unforeseen: Eye-Tracking Reading Paths in Multimodal Webpages – Martin Siefkes/Emanuele Arielli: An Experimental Approach to Multimodality: How Musical and Architectural Styles Interact in Aesthetic Perception – Elisa Vales: Narrative Process Annotation of Comic Strips in Corpus Analysis – Tuomo Hiippala: Combining Computer Vision and Multimodal Analysis: A Case Study of Layout Symmetry in Bilingual In-Flight Magazines – Christina Schmitt: Embodied Meaning in Audio-Visuals: First Steps Towards a Notion of Mode – Assimakis Tseronis: Documentary Film as Multimodal Argumentation: Arguing Audio-Visually About the 2008 Financial Crisis – Jan Krasni: Reflecting on a Gap Between Polyphony and Multimodality in Online Media Formats – Kate Maxwell: When Here is Now and There is Then: Bridging the Gap in Time with «Sumer Is Icumen In» – Dorra Moalla: Visual Literacy in EAP: The Dialogue between Reader/Designer Features and Multimodal Text.

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Book SynopsisThe cultural discourse of theatrical performance defines the theatre sign interaction as an active semiosis. This, in turn, specifies the main objective of the study – the formulation of the basic parameters of this architectonics as a fundament of théâtralité. Since the time of Antiquity the theatre has always been discussing general aesthetic, philosophical, ethical and social issues in the context of a visual image of the specific objects of an intellectual discourse. The book takes a close look at this process of signification, formation of meanings, presentation and interpretation on stage: a theatre performance is a product of an intense sign environment and a major symbol of theatricality.Table of ContentsContents: Theatre Semiotics – Théâtralité – Performance Signifier – Stage Figure – Theatre Communication – Theatrical Codes – Sign as Absence/Presence – Linguistic/Paralinguistic Interaction – Stage Signification – Semantics of Interpretation – Mise-en-scène – Phenomenology of the Game-of-Lies – Differance – Derida/Artoud.

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Book SynopsisThis volume proposes a new, post-Newtonian alley in modern language and communication studies. The new linguistics receives here the label ecolinguistics, as the conceptual-terminological field founded on the «ecological» metaphor seems optimal to formulate the thesis of human language being a life process, and involving a repertoire of ecosystemic, not exclusively cognitive or social, parameters. Communicators are living systems and as such they transpersonally co-build momentary meanings and communicational senses together with the rest of the communication field. The communication apparatus which is phylogenetically present in humans includes both the cognitive modalities and the noncognitive communication modalities. The ecolinguistic paradigm in modern linguistics offers new theoretical departure models for educational programs, for psychological/therapeutic interventions, or for self-exploratory and self-educational undertakings of a human communicator.Table of ContentsContents: Ecolinguistics as a new linguistic paradigm – From the speaker-hearer using language to the living system as embedded in relationships – The possibility of a paradigmatic shift in contemporary linguistics – Quantum models of reality – Insearch of a new methodology – Extended educational paradigm – Linguistic labeling.

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses the nature of optionality in second language grammars and the indeterminacy observed in second language users’ linguistic representations. For these purposes, experimental data from 213 learners of German and 150 learners of Russian have been collected and analysed with a special focus on the acquisition of various «subjectless» and impersonal constructions as well as argument licensing. Whereas voice alternations and argument licensing are topics amply discussed in theoretical domains, their practical implementation within second language research has remained a research lacuna. This piece of work intends to fill the gap.Table of ContentsContents: Second language acquisition – Generative Grammar – Syntax and interfaces – Voice alternations – Argument structure – Argument licensing – Impersonal constructions – Expletives – German – Russian – Parametric variation – Interlanguage grammars – Optionality and overgeneralisation patterns in second language acquisition – Empirical studies.

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Book SynopsisThe authors of this volume explore rhetorical and discursive strategies used to negotiate and establish legitimate knowledge and its disciplinary boundaries, to make scientific knowledge interesting outside academic settings as well, and to manage (c)overt knowledge in different social and political contexts. The volume focuses on the cultural concept of knowledge society, examining diverse linguistic means of knowledge transmission from the perspective of the complex interplay between knowledge and persuasion. The contributors discuss both sociological and philosophical issues, as well as textual processes in different genres that aim to communicate knowledge.Table of ContentsTypes of knowledge – Ways of knowing – Types of rhetorical research – Knowledge society – Rhetoric of science – Evolution of scientific discourse – Genres of academic discourse – Argumentation – Science and ethics – Sociology of academic excellence – (C)overt knowledge

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates philosophical and formal approaches to predication. The topics discussed include Aristotelian predication, a conceptualist approach to predication, possible formalizations of the notion, Fregean predicates and concepts, and Meinongian predication. The contributions discuss the approaches proposed by Aristotle and Frege, as well as the division of classes into a hierarchy of orders. They reanalyze the traditional notions, and offer new insights into predication theory. This book contributes to contemporary debates on predication and predicates in the philosophy of language.Table of ContentsPhilosophy of language – Predication – Predicate – Concept – Rule-following – Class – Procedural semantics – Unsaturatedness – Aristotle – Johan Caspar Sulzer – Gottlob Frege – Alexius Meinong

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first part of a comprehensive study of Wittgenstein’s conception of language description. Describing language was no pastime occupation for the philosopher. It was hard work and it meant struggle. It made for a philosophy that required Wittgenstein’s full attention and half his life. His approach had always been working on himself, on how he saw things. The central claim of this book is that nothing will come of our exegetical efforts to see what Wittgenstein's later philosophy amounts to if his work on describing language is not given the place and concern it deserves. The book shows what his philosophy might begin to look like in the light of critical questions around his interest to see the end of the day with descriptions, and these things only.Table of ContentsNot a common way of looking – The problematic of philosophy is the problematic of the point – Wittgenstein’s Copernican revolution – A strange method – A big gap in Wittgenstein’s thinking

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Book Synopsis Studies collected in this volume investigate selected issues in contemporary philosophy of language and philosophy of literature. Individual authors concentrate on philosophy of fiction and discuss fictional worlds and fictional characters. They also present different approaches to translation theory, and metaphor theory (both classical and conceptual). Other chapters address the issues of figurativeness and poetic language, apply the principles of cognitive poetics to analyse different types of texts, and provide cognitive approaches to abstraction in visual and verbal art, also to the categories of similarity and difference in perception and language. The analysed authors include Wallace Stevens, Rae Armantrout, Ernest Hemingway and David Lodge.Table of Contentsphilosophy of language, philosophy of literature, cognitive poetics, fictional worlds, fictional characters, metaphor theory, translation theory, neo-Whorfianism, figurative language, Wallace Stevens, Rae Armantrout, visual art, verbal art, abstraction, similarity and difference in perception and language

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Book Synopsis The book outlines a new approach to the study of motivation in language, which is firmly rooted in the paradigm of cognitive linguistics, but it is developed in critical (and constructive) dialogue with classical theories in semiotics: Ferdinand de Saussure’s structural linguistics and Charles S. Peirce’s model of the sign. The author’s proposal hinges upon the Peircean distinction between iconic, indexical, and symbolic signs, but the classical typology is reinterpreted within the framework of cognitive linguistics. The approach does not seek to "categorize" different linguistic expressions into one of the three Peircean types, but attempts to capture the dynamicity of meanings in terms of iconicity, indexicality, and conventionality. The book presents an analysis of selected vocabulary and morphosyntactic structures of English.Table of ContentsCognitive theory of the linguistic sign – New theory of linguistic motivation – Cognitive linguistics – Language vs. Reality – Models of the linguistic sign – Post-Saussurean linguistics – Peirce-inspired linguistics

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Book SynopsisThe textbook concentrates on selected topics and problematic aspects in preparing a cohesive and well-organised academic paper, such as: the relation between thinking and writing, establishing arguments, using logic and appropriate language in argumentative writing. The author considers writing as thinking made visible, as thinking in slow motion, a process whereby we can inspect and reflect on what we are thinking about. Writing doesn’t simply convey thought, it also forges it. It is a two-way street, both expressing and generating ideas.Table of ContentsContents: Argument – Cognitive biases – Thinking – Writing – Essay – Mind and language – Thinking and writing – Writing an essay – The Structure of an essay – Logic in thoughts and words – Logical fallacies.

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Book SynopsisThis book illustrates the problems connected with the body and the sign: the real body and the body of the text, somaticism and semiology (both as a general sign theory and in the medical sense as «symptomatology»). The author seeks to derive a more general principle from these two words, referring to the representation of experience in different literary texts. If we are talking about the representation of experience, we cannot, by any means, ignore the body that becomes the essential point of reference for human experience. This general principle aims at creating a matter of concept, a somatic criticism project, which is closely related to the issue of rhythm in literary texts - a rhythm understood as an intermediary between the body and the sense of the text.Table of ContentsSomatic criticism - Somatic writing, touching sense - Aleksander Wat - Somatic style - Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn Dycki - Sound effects - Joanna Pollakówna - Listening as a somatic experience - Edward Pasewicz - Sonnet corpus - Somatext: word, picture and rhythm

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Book SynopsisThis book consists of nine chapters devoted to representations of melancholia in 19th-century art and literature. A noteworthy feature of the book is its use of concepts from later works by Sigmund Freud, Jean Clair, Jean Starobinski, Julia Kristeva and others. Those concepts elucidate further contexts of the notion of melancholia, which are presented not in isolation but juxtaposed with the philosophical background of the concept (starting from Hippocrates and Aristotle). Thus, the book not only provides a survey of images and modes of behaviour of 19th-century individuals, but also discusses the meanings of melancholia as they appeared in European culture over time.Table of ContentsMelancholia – 19th-century art and literature – Images and modes of behaviour – Rousseau – Chateaubriand – Senancour – Amiel – Macpherson – Turner – Mallarmé – Madame de Staël – Delacroix – Flaubert – Baudelaire – Balzac – Hasenclever

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the linguistic status of predication, especially within the generative paradigm. The topics discussed include minimalist accounts of predication, types of predication, copular constructions, topic and focus, theticity and transitivity. The contributions analyze constructions from a wide variety of languages, including English, Polish, Irish, Welsh, Norwegian, German, Arabic, Ostyak, Mongolian, Japanese and Chinese. This book contributes to contemporary debates on understanding predication in linguistics and in the philosophy of language.Table of ContentsLinguistic status of predication – Predication in syntax – Copular predication – Subject requirement – Small clauses – Specificational clauses – Minimalist syntax – Secondary predication – Theticity and transitivity – Focus – Topic – English – Polish – Irish – Welsh – German – Arabic – Ostyak – Mongolian – Japanese – Chinese

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Book SynopsisDespite the growing interest in various translation activities, there is still a potentially vast area of research. The statement may be true for opera surtitling, which was introduced in the nineteen eighties and has been used in opera companies worldwide ever since. This book aims to offer a theoretical framework for opera surtitling, based on several factors, including the semiotics of opera, relevance theory, or fundamental rules of audiovisual translation. The author provides a more illuminating insight by means of practical research into surtitling in Poland, which proves that surtitling is not as simple a task as it may seem, demanding a multimodal and multifaceted analysis of an audiovisual complex and requiring a constant struggle to guarantee optimal relevance of the surtitled performance.Table of ContentsOpera surtitling – Audiovisual translation – Relevance theory – Accessibility and usability – Opera semiotics – Questionnaire study – Corpus analysis – Norms and constraints

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Book SynopsisThe book presents the various viewpoints that poetics, literary history and Western rhetoric have adopted throughout Western history. The aim of poetics is to render the specificity of the literary discourse by either highlighting the extra literary generative forces or by focusing on the intrinsic study of literary works. Rhetoric chiefly places emphasis on the verbal effects of discourses whereas literary history predominantly examines the temporal succession of the literary systems or of the literary institution. The author focuses on the three sections: poetics, rhetoric, and literary history and provides an introductory study on the subject of reference.Table of ContentsReference and reality – Poetic reflection – Meanings of poetics – Rhetoric, a millenary discipline – The specificity of rhetoric and its reference – The identity of the literary history – The literary history, a discipline of continuity – The variable reference

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Book SynopsisThe book proposes to see the talk about rules-following as a way of giving an account of particular people’s characters and their lives. This focus on understanding others as variously coping with the claims of particular rules attempts to specify the variety of "attitudes towards a soul" as discussed in the Wittgensteinian tradition. The book derives from the philosophical tradition that considers human beings as rule-following creatures. It suggests that rules followed by other people allow for understanding and sympathising with them. Coping with rules is explored as a complicated lived practice, with respect to: particularised rules holding in relation to a context or to individual people, the variety of our responses to rules we are subject to, or our failure in coping with them.Table of ContentsThe World of Rules – Rules and the Particularity of Agents – The Orientation Turn – Rules and Persons in Morally-Loaded Situations – Addiction: A Normative Disorder – Beyond Perspective: Towards a Story – The Difficult Blessing of Being a Normative Creature

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Book SynopsisThis unique book, inspired by the work of Umberto Eco - one of the greatest semioticians of all times - provides a compelling overview of current developments in semiotic research, bringing together various academic voices and critical reflections on the nature and function of signs, signification, and communication. Contributors, including Eco himself, discuss the status quo of the discipline, its scope, theoretical orientations, and methodological approaches, shedding light on the cognitive and philosophical complexity of the meaning-making process and form–meaning interfaces. The book is an outcome of the SIVO Signum-Idea-Verbum-Opus project initiated by Umberto Eco’s keynote address during his visit at the University of Łódź in 2015. More theoretical insights and further explorations into contemporary semiosphere can be found in Current Perspectives in Semiotics: Texts, Genres, and Representations, published simultaneously by Peter Lang.Table of ContentsOverview of main theories and current developments in semiotics - Examination of the structure and functioning of signs in contemporary semiosphere - Interface of language, cognition, and culture - Various aspects of signification and communication

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Book SynopsisThis study focuses on the concepts of similarities and differences considered within the framework of cognitive linguistics and its understanding of mental construal as our ability to form alternate conceptualisations. The author employs selected cognitive models in the analysis of a variety of verbal, visual, and verbo-visual texts from the domains of literature, art, the press, as well as internet communication. With a focus on the practical dimension, the author suggests that comparing theme-related texts, alternative conceptualisations, and variations might be used as a strategy in teaching cognitive linguistics.Table of ContentsSimilarity, resemblance, analogy – The art of choice: rhetorics and stylistics – Alternative conceptualisations in Cognitive Linguistics – Mental construal – Image systems – Conceptual metaphor – Conceptual integration – Variant construals and variations – Verbal, visual, verbo-visual variations – Teaching variations

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates possible common objects of inquiry in philosophy of language and literature. The topics discussed include proper names (analyzed from different theoretical perspectives), fictional names, truth in fiction, ontological status and metaphysics of fictional characters, metaphor, representation, interpretation, and other issues connecting research in philosophy of language with philosophy of literature. Theoretical frameworks include Millian semantics, Fregean semantics, hybrid semantics, realism, antirealism, and metaphorical expressivism.Table of ContentsProper names – Fictional names – Fictional characters – Truth in fiction – Metaphysics of fictional characters – Millian semantics – Fregean semantics – Realism and antirealism – Sense and nonsense – Metaphor – Representation – Interpretation – Donald Davidson – Franz Kafka – Finnegans Wake

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Book SynopsisThis book comprises a series of essays exploring the transformative insights of Fichte, Herder, Humboldt and the Romantics into the seminal role of language and imagination in shaping human experience and art, including how language, self-consciousness and understanding arise through speech. Along with topics concerning the literary work of art, the philosophy of history, German humanities, philology, and semiotics, the author also discusses the place of phenomenology and the concept of interpretation in literary theory. In highlighting ideas from A. W. Vico, F. Schlegel, Novalis, Germaine de Staël, and Schleiermacher, the author also elucidates romantic poetics, translation, discourse and cultural transfer themes.Das vorliegende Werk umfasst eine Reihe hermeneutischer Abhandlungen des Autors, in deren Fokus die Deutung der Sprachauffassungen Fichtes, Herders, Humboldts und der Romantiker steht. Der Autor untersucht dabei die Formierung von Erfahrung und Kunst durch Sprache und Einbildungskraft sowie die Entstehung von Sprache, Selbstbewusstsein und Verstehen in der Rede. Desgleichen behandelt er Semiotik, Philologie und Philosophie der Geschichte, sowie die Rolle der Phänomenologie und des Interpretationsbegriffs in der Literaturkritik. Im Besonderen hebt der Autor die Auffassungen von Vico, A.W. und F. Schlegel, Novalis, Germaine de Staël, F. Schleiermacher hervor und beleuchtet Übersetzungs-, Diskurs- und Kulturtransfertheorien sowie die Poetik der Romantiker.

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Book SynopsisThe science of language evolution appeared at the end of the last century but topically belongs to language origins – the domain of investigation that is concerned with the beginnings and diversification of language. Language evolution as a research area contrasts with the antiquity of language origins, which can be traced back to the earliest forms of traditional reflection. Language evolution emphasises its scientific orientation, whereas throughout most of its history language origins constituted a complex mixture of mythology, philosophy of language, as well as religiously and scientifically inspired speculation. This work is the first book-long attempt to document the whole history of language origins and situate language evolution in this wide intellectual context.Table of ContentsLanguage origins – Language evolution – Evolutionism – History of linguistics – History of ideas – History of science – Philosophy of language – Glottogony – Glossogeny – Darwinism – Neo-Darwinian synthesis – Biological foundations of language

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Book SynopsisProduit de la conférence Translatio et Histoire des idées, troisième du cycle Translatio, ce livre réunit des contributions reflétant l’actualisation des recherches sur la Translatio et son rôle dans la marche des idées. Nous y voyons diverses conceptualisations de l’image de l’Autre et de son univers, dues aux déterminants idéologiques et politiques du processus du transfert langagier. L’objectif des investigations est de mesurer les infléchissements induits par la Translatio, ce passage d’une culture à l’autre. Les auteurs abordent aussi bien des cas qui autorisent à identifier motifs et éléments récurrents accompagnant le processus de la Translatio. La récurrence de ces aspects permet des formuler certaines règles concernant le transfert langagier. This book, a product of the "Translatio and the History of Ideas" conference and the third volume in the Translatio cycle, brings together contributions reflecting the advances in research on the Translatio and its role in the march of ideas. We see various conceptualizations of the image of the Other and his universe, due to the ideological and political determinants of the language transfer process. The objective of the investigations is to measure the inflections induced by the Translatio, this passage from one culture to another.The authors approach the cases that allow to identify certain patterns and recurring elements accompanying the process of the Translatio. The recurrence of these aspects makes it possible to formulate certain rules and principles concerning language transfer.

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Book SynopsisProduit de la conférence « Translatio et Histoire des idées », troisième du cycle Translatio, ce livre réunit des contributions reflétant l’actualisation des recherches sur la Translatio et son rôle dans la marche des idées. Nous y voyons diverses conceptualisations de l’image de l’Autre et de son univers, dues aux déterminants idéologiques et politiques du processus du transfert langagier. L’objectif des investigations est de mesurer les infléchissements induits par la Translatio, ce passage d’une culture à l’autre. Les auteurs abordent aussi bien des cas qui autorisent à identifier certains motifs et éléments récurrents accompagnant le processus de la translatio. La récurrence de ces aspects permet de formuler certains principes et règles, concernant le transfert langagier. This book, a product of the "Translatio and the History of Ideas" conference and the third volume in the Translatio cycle, brings together contributions reflecting the advances in research on the Translatio and its role in the march of ideas. We see various conceptualizations of the image of the Other and his universe, due to the ideological and political determinants of the language transfer process. The objective of the investigations is to measure the inflections induced by the Translatio, the passage from one culture to another.The authors approach the cases that allow identification of certain patterns and recurring elements accompanying the process of the Translatio. The recurrence of these aspects makes it possible to formulate certain rules and principles concerning language transfer.

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Book SynopsisNach der internationalen Tagung, die an der Universität zu Créteil am 10. März 2017 zu Ehren Jean-Marie Zembs abgehalten wurde, ist diesem nun der vorliegende Band ausgewählter Beiträge gewidmet. Die ForscherInnen aus unterschiedlichen Ländern heben Jean-Marie Zembs wichtigen Beitrag zur Sprachwissenschaft und Didaktik des Deutschen und Französischen sowie dessen Modernität hervor. Jean-Marie Zemb (1928-2007) hatte am Collège de France den für ihn eingerichteten Lehrstuhl «Grammaire et pensée allemandes» inne (1986-1998). Danach wurde er zum Mitglied der «Académie des sciences morales et politiques», Abteilung Philosophie. Als gebürtiger Elsässer hat er sich sein Leben lang für das Deutsche und Französische engagiert. Après la journée d’étude internationale du 10 mars 2017, à l’UPEC, en l’honneur de Jean-Marie Zemb, voici un volume de contributions choisies dédié à Jean-Marie Zemb. Les chercheuses et chercheurs de divers pays ont mis en lumière les apports linguistiques et didactiques de la pensée de Jean-Marie Zemb (1928-2007). Il s’agit, par cette publication, de faire apparaître la richesse et la modernité de cet éminent linguiste et philosophe, entre le français et l’allemand, pour qui fut créée en 1986 au Collège de France la Chaire « Grammaire et pensée allemandes », (1986-1998) et qui fut ensuite élu à l’Académie des sciences morales et politiques, dans la section philosophie.Table of ContentsWerner Abraham: Zembs Phemabegriff – John Ole Askedal: Modus und Tempus – Françoise Daviet-Taylor: Des figures de sa Pensée – Olivier Duplâtre: Le système Zembien – Hans-Werner Eroms: Die Entwicklung von Jean-Marie Zembs Satzkonzeption – Eva Hajičová: What we can learn from J.-M. Zemb – Elisabeth Leiss: Das Phema bei Jean-Marie Zemb – Pierre-Yves Modicom: Die Geburt der Proposition – Bernadett Modrián-Horvath: Die semantische Grundstruktur des ungarischen Satzes

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Book Synopsis«This little gem offers the reader an overview of the various practices that form part of the ever increasing field of audiovisual translation (AVT) and makes brave inroads into the less glamorous but definitely needed areas of theory and research. Covering a wide range of topics in research in AVT, and admittedly questioning «whether a universal methodology for audiovisual translation research is feasible», this volume theorises about the nature of AVT, helps to frame some of the current trends, and points to potentially new research avenues. The style is reader friendly and to the point; a most welcome addition to translation studies.»Jorge Díaz Cintas, University College LondonTable of ContentsContents: Audiovisual translation – Film – Subtitling – Dubbing – Voice-over – Audiodescription – Subtitling – Subtitling for the deaf and the hard-of-hearing – Methodology – Multimodal – Action research – Norms – Relevance – Collaborative translation.

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