New Perspectives in Language, Discourse and Translation Studies

✍ Scribed by Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (auth.), Mirosław Pawlak, Jakub Bielak (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Series: Second Language Learning and Teaching
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The current volume is a collection of papers representing the most recent developments in linguistics, specifically in the fields of language, discourse and translation studies. It includes papers representative of traditionally distinguished linguistic subdisciplines such as phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, historical linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, as well as translation. Since the contributions contained in the book touch upon such a variety of disciplines and do so from both more traditional and more innovative perspectives, it will be an important point of reference for scholars, graduate students and lecturers teaching courses in linguistics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Aspiration in Polish: A Sound Change in Progress?....Pages 3-11
Noise as a Phonological Element: On the Representation of Plosives and Affricates....Pages 13-23
Word and Foot Minimality in English: A Metrical Government Analysis....Pages 25-39
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
The Psychological Reality of Grammar. A Cognitive Linguistics Perspective....Pages 43-59
A Morphologist’s Perspective on “Event Structure Theory” of Nominalizations....Pages 61-76
A Recalcitrant Nature of Object Experiencers....Pages 77-90
On the Representations of Motion Events: Perspectives from L2 Research....Pages 91-102
On the Interplay Between Prepositional Categories. The Case of the Polish od – do Construction....Pages 103-115
Governed Prepositions in English: A Corpus-Based Study....Pages 117-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Reflections on Structural Variation in Old English Verbs....Pages 137-151
The Semantic Analysis of Old English unnan ....Pages 153-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
“ When We Talk, It Never Materializes ”: Functions of Off-Record Communication in Conflict Talk....Pages 165-176
Territorialization in Political Discourse: A Pragma-Linguistic Study of Jerzy Buzek’s Inaugural Speeches....Pages 177-188
From a Complaint through Therapy to Recovery: Patient Indexicality in Medical Case Reports....Pages 189-199
Beyond and within Standard English: Categories, Category Boundaries and Fuzziness....Pages 201-212
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Construction Grammar as a Framework for Describing Translation: A Prolegomenon....Pages 215-225
Crossing the Frontiers of Linguistic Typology: Lexical Differences and Translation Patterns in English and Russian Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov....Pages 227-240

✦ Subjects

Syntax; Phonology; Historical Linguistics; Translation; Psycholinguistics