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Numerous linguists of various orientations, translators and literary scholars share an interest in text. As students of language with very diverse interests and aims, they ask themselves, if only subconsciously, the following questions: What kind(s) of texts do we study? Why do we study them? What are we looking for? What do and don’t we find? What do we do with whatever we do find? What does it tell us about language, its speakers or the human mind? Generally, what is (a) text for me as a linguist and/or translator? In the present volume, the questions are brought onto the level of the conscious and addressed by several practitioners in the fields of linguistics and translation – contributions with a literary slant also have a linguistic orientation. Although ultimate answers to these questions may not exist, the ambition of the book is to help the reader appreciate the richness of text and the variety of texts as a treasure-trove for scholars representing multifarious approaches to language.
This is the third volume in the series Within Language, Beyond Theories, which focuses on current linguistic research that surpasses the limits of contemporary theoretical frameworks in order to gain new insights into the structure of the language system and to offer more explanatorily adequate accounts of linguistic phenomena taken from a number of the world’s languages. This book offers a collection of fourteen chapters organized into three parts and serves as a vehicle for the survey of new voices in discourse analysis, pragmatics and corpus-based studies. Part I addresses a panorama of topics related to different discourse types, such as talk show discourse, multimodal discourse, and e...
Even though the ability to create witty puns seems to be an inherent skill of humankind, an apt explanation of their linguistic nature has evaded many academic descriptions. This monograph offers a novel conceptual perspective on the creation of meaning observable beneath the surface of wordplay. The rationale for such an approach lies in the fact that language, and hence wordplay, is a cognitive phenomenon which involves some underlying complex mental processes, such as thinking in terms of image schemas, conceptual metaphor and metonymy, or blending, to mention just a few. The book provides a survey of relevant linguistic research, introduces the main tenets of cognitive linguistics, and offers an analysis of wordplay in the light of available cognitive literature. The final outcome of this work is an array of intricate mechanisms that govern creation and comprehension of wordplay. The book will be of interest to anybody who finds wordplay research appealing, no matter their level of expertise in the field.
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Publikacja jest pierwszym od wielu lat tak obszernym opracowaniem problematyki prawnokarnej ochrony przed nieuczciwą konkurencją. Zawiera bogate omówienie wielu spornych problemów o istotnym znaczeniu dla praktyki z uwzględnieniem najnowszego orzecznictwa i piśmiennictwa. Oprócz szczegółowej analizy znamion przepisów penalnych (karnych i wykroczeniowych) zawartych w ustawie z 16.04.1993 r. o zwalczaniu nieuczciwej konkurencji, w pracy omówiono także problematykę: - wpływu przepisów cywilnych na zakres odpowiedzialności penalnej, a także - naruszenia zasad prawa służących ochronie przed podwójnym ukaraniem za określone zachowanie – z jednej strony na podstawie przepisów statuujących przestępstwa lub wykroczenia, a z drugiej - na podstawie przepisów statuujących delikty administracyjne. Publikacja przeznaczona dla adwokatów, radców prawnych, sędziów oraz prokuratorów. Omówione w niej zagadnienia pomogą w właściwym zakwalifikowaniu określonych zachowań – tj. w dokonaniu oceny, czy stanowią one penalizowane czyny nieuczciwej konkurencji, czy jedynie delikty cywilnoprawne.
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