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Figurative language has always been used in business communication, with metaphoric expressions being its most representative and frequent elements. Metaphor is defined as a transference of the literal meaning of a word into another context, which means that one thing is described in terms of some other thing (M. Long/ J. Richards 1999), e.g. time is money, cash cow, sleeping beauty. It is the notion...
The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the most important approaches to the concepts of metacognition, metaknowledge and metacompetence. A growing body of research on these concepts highlights the significance and benefits of acquiring metacognitive knowledge and competence, especially in education and learning. Though scholarly opinion is still divided as to their exact functions and definitions,...
In this paper, a new generic development in the medical case report will be presented as a useful tool in the broadly understood medical context. A case report describes new diseases or their novel aspects, and its new interactive type additionally allows readers to comment on published cases and features patients’ first person accounts. This development may become a useful tool in the teaching of...
Online customer reviews allow the users to share their opinion on a product with other shoppers. They express either satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the item as well as its strong and weak features. Henceforth the reviews are a valuable source of information about the community and its expectations. I have used the reviews of German-Polish and Polish-German dictionaries from online bookshops...
Web 2.0 with its themes: participation, design, remixability or convergence1 and its forms: social networking sites, blogs or wikis is a new quality of the Internet-based communication. The using of websites and the blogosphere changes the role of the network user as a participant of that communication. Therefore, the article discusses how new subjects of research in the Internet-based communication...
In information science ontologies are defined as content theories about the entities, properties of entities and relations between entities in a specified domain of discourse. This paper provides a conceptual introduction to applied ontologies and their role in describing knowledge in the light of the anthropocentric theory of human languages created by F. Grucza. The Author discusses what kind of...
The recent political and social events that took place in Europe made us all re-visit some of the basic assumptions of intercultural communication studies. According to the authors of this paper, most theoretical and empirical studies concerning intercultural communication seem to neglect the fact that some interlocutors are intentionally impolite and motivated by their racist and/or xenophobic views,...
The aim of the present article is to provide an overview on selected macrostructural and microstructural choices made by the authors of multilingual LSP dictionaries. Particular attention is devoted to the headwords and the arrangement and content of dictionary entries. The above-mentioned questions are discussed based on several multilingual LSP dictionaries which have been published in Poland in...
Linguistic statements, which belong to a class of assertive speech acts, are frequently analyzed separately from their producers as verbal actions used to reflect reality, which are later submitted to the verification of compliance with that same reality. The article presents the results of a study of selected acts performed in certain situations taking into account the mutual relation of particular...
What is the remit of knowledge activated by a translator expected to introduce a new specialized expression? What knowledge and which skills constitute this translator’s construction competence? Which epistemic acts does the translator employ when generating new knowledge, a new specialist lexeme? These questions have prompted research into the constitution of Polish specialist lexemes in the remit...
Court speeches can be regarded as public speaking whose recipient is a certain group of people, not just one person. This kind of speech is addressed at the clearly specified recipient – the court and other trial participants, both lawyers and laymen. Taking into consideration the assumed effectiveness of a specific statement type and its extralinguistic consequences, an author of a speech must obtain...
The purpose of this inquiry is to set the equivalence relations between the German modal particles etwa, schon, wohl in rhetorical questions and the corresponding particles in Polish. The communicative function of the particles according to rhetoricity will be established first. The relevance of the particles meaning in causing the rhetoricity will be considered at that. The research results should...
The objective of this article will be both the theoretical and the practical analysis of the use of the selected English lexical and function words (to, there, before) by Polish users of English representing different proficiency levels. The practical part, in particular, will concern the use of the afore-mentioned, selected words comprising both categories based on the available corpus of L2 users...
The paper introduces an alternative concept of the investigations on metaphor reception, proposed within the framework of Critical Cognitive Linguistics by M. Schwarz, which presents the metaphor not only as a semantic-conceptual but also as an intentional and pragmatic phenomenon. The paper tries to explore what role metaphors play in the understanding of the migration crisis. In its main part it...
The famous Phaistos Disc is an artifact that was found by the Italian archeologist L. Pernier in 1908 during the excavations in Crete. In the common opinion the Phaistos Disc contains a natural language text written with the use of some kind of a syllabic script. In order to test this assumption, a statistical analysis of the distribution of words’ length of the Phaistos Disc was conducted. It proved...
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