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Abstract An article deals with the problematic of language and its main notions as meaning, discourse, text and translation. It is assumed as the recapitulation of these main notions and is directed to present these terms as necessary for the understanding of modern branches of linguistics and philosophy, such as f.ex. transhumanism. The problem of language is here treated as an integral part of the...
The paper discusses various culture-connected forms of context that can be inferred from a text in the moment it is being dealt with. While presenting mutual counter-dependencies of language and culture the paper offers an analysis of culture-bound aspects of context as they are found to have been functioning from the point of view of one’s text comprehension. This is where the cognitive theory of...
This essay is a case study about linguistic mechanisms that affect an emigrant’s life. The research is based on the autobiography Lost in Translation by the Polish emigrant Eva Hoffman, analyzed with the use of theories of the structural linguistic school. According to the research, some linguistic rules influence her life very deeply. She communicates poorly because the expression of new language...
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