Language and cognition: meaning across contexts

Language and cognition: meaning across contexts Mikołaj Deckert and Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka (eds.) Using the principles and methods of cognitive linguistics, pragmatics as well as corpus linguistics, this volume offers insights into how language structure and contextualised language use condition the meaning-making process. A total of ten contributors draw from English, Greek, German, Hungarian, Latin, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian to examine different types of linguistic evidence ranging from academic discourse, to literature, church language as well as media language. While the papers employ a choice of analytic constructs and research methodologies, they share the central objective of uncovering, systematically describing and explaining some of the patterns of language-prompted meaning construction and communication, both intralingually and in a contrastive perspective. Table of Contents Mikołaj Deckert and Iwona Witczak Plisiecka Language and cognition: meaning across contexts Marco Venuti Institutional academic discourse in European university websites. Internationalisation and marketization in the European higher education area Izabela Wiśniewska-Kędziora Prefabs in preaching Dorota Pierścińska Using corpus tools to study textual meaning and to discriminate among literary text types Jacek Tadeusz Waliński Semantic shifts from space to time in motion-mediated expressions of distance Marcin Grygiel Affirmation as a DISTANCE relation Ewa Wychorska A holistic approach to cognition, metaphors, dreams and emotions Aleksandra Majdzińska Different perspectives on perspective Andrei Levitsky East Slavic and West Germanic sleep and dream in the quasi-reality dimension Jadwiga Suwaj Are translations of English movie titles localized for the Polish audience? Katalin Szili The dialogue of words across languages ISBN 9783862887026. LINCOM Studies in Pragmatics 28. 150pp. 2016.