Zooming In

This book explores the influence of culture and cognition on translation and communication. It investigates various languages and cultures (including Japanese, Hungarian, English, Czech, Polish, German and Swahili) and examines a range of linguistic and translation issues from a micro-scale perspective.

Autorentext

Wojciech Wachowski is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics at Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz. He has published on various topics in linguistics, particularly cognitive linguistics and sociolinguistics. His main research interests include metonymy and metaphor, and teacher and translator training.

Zoltán Kövecses is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His main research interests include the theory of metaphor and metonymy, the conceptualization of emotions, the relationship between cognition and culture, and the issue of cultural variation in metaphor. His books include Where Metaphors Come From (2015), Language, Mind and Culture: A Practical Introduction (2006), Metaphor in Culture: Universality and Variation (2005), Metaphor: A Practical Introduction (2002/2010) and Metaphor and Emotion (2000). He received the Charles Simonyi Award in 2008.

Michal Borodo is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics at Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, where he is also Head of Postgraduate Studies in Translating and Interpreting. He has published on various topics in translation studies and his main research interests include translation and language in the context of globalization and glocalization, the translation of children's literature and comics, and translator training. His monograph, Translation, Globalization and Younger Audiences: The Situation in Poland, is forthcoming in 2017.

Inhalt

CONTENTS: Zoltán Kövecses: The interplay between metaphor and culture Elbieta Tabakowska: Memory, imagination, translation Wojciech Wachowski: Metonymic hiding and cross-cultural communication Anna Lesiska/Jacek Lesiski: Between text and silence: Ellipsis as a linguistic phenomenon and a case of EnglishPolish translation Marcin Trojszczak: On «paying attention»: The objectification of attention in English and Polish Jana Richterová: Syntactic structures as carriers of emphatic expression in literary translation from English into Czech and vice versa Andrea Götz: Translating doubt: The case of the Hungarian discourse marker vajon Anna Kiziska: Incongruity of civil law terms under Polish and British legal systems Micha Janowski: Translation of individual lexical items for the purposes of lexicography: Practical considerations Monika Linke-Ratuszny: Psychology in translation: Textual tendencies in selected EnglishPolish translations of popular science texts Pawe Aleksandrowicz: Rendering accents, dialects and prosodic features in game localization Tomohiro Sakai: Between globalness and localness: The case of proper names in the philosophy of language Maciej Adamski: Motoring and discourse speak one language: A case for globalized motoring discourse.