‘I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.’ Bob DylanGathered together for the...
A name synonymous with ground-breaking music, Tony Visconti has worked with the most dynamic and influential names in pop, from T.Rex and Iggy Pop to David Bowie and U2. This is the com...
From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka ceased to keep a diary, for which he had used quarto-size notebooks, instead writing in a series of smaller, octavo-size notebooks. When Kafka's literary...
"This volume is an excellent introduction to the world of J. R. R. Tolkien. Recounting in images and words the story of his early years and life as a scholar and family man, the book also illu...
Tłumaczenie form, tyleż nieuniknione, co i oczywiste, jawi się jako efekt uboczny tłumaczenia poezji, jak gdyby te dwie wartości były rozdzielne. Oczywistość tłumaczenia formy podlega jednak polary...
The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell’s recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading the reader step by step ...
Providing a solid foundation in second language acquisition, this book has become the leading introduction to the subject for students of linguistics, psychology and education, and trainee language...
For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare's life and times and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest in aspects of his language. So how can we better understand Shakes...
From Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel García Márquez and Toni Morrison, delve into more than 100 biographies of the world's greatest writers.Introduced with a stunni...
This study is based on the assumption that language and culture are most closely connected at axiological level. Attention is paid to value terms regarded as cultural concepts, with their expl...
The answers to some of life's biggest questions are found not in trite self-help manuals but in the tough-love lessons explored in Russian literature. Here, Viv Groskop delves into the novels of hi...
Z recenzji wydawniczej prof. zw. dra hab. Juliana Maliszewskiego (Katedra Języka Biznesu Politechniki Częstochowskiej):„Tom zbiorowy (…) Selected aspects of interpreting in...
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite's acclaimed biography of A. A. Milne, one of the most successful English writers ever, and the crea...
Przekład ustny jest taką formą przekładu, w której — oprócz transferu języka źródłowego na język docelowy — dochodzi do wielu procesów kognitywnych oraz psyc...
Glottodidactica. An International Journal of Applied Linguistics czasopismo wydawane jest przez Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu od 1966 roku. Publikowane w nim artykuły podejmują probl...
Worlds in the making Constructivism and Postmodern KnowledgePreface; Constructivism in Language Sciences and Education: Zdzisław Wąsik: Investigative Perspectives in the Construction of Scien...
INVENTING THE ENEMY covers a wide range of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured over the last ten years, from a disquisition on the theme that runs through his recent novel, The Pra...
Słownik Europejskiej Konwencji Praw Człowieka, zawierający ponad 3600 haseł, jest pierwszym na polskim, a także europejskim rynku słownikiem na ten temat. Obejmuje język samej konwencji, jej protok...
The "Relevance Studies in Poland" series accommodates selected papers written by the participants of the biennial conference "Interpreting for Relevance: Discourse and Translation&qu...
Książka jest niezwykle ambitnym i pionierskim, wielowątkowym studium dyskursu z punktu widzenia aksjologii. Jest to pierwsza monografia kontynuująca wybitne dzieło Tomasza P. Krzeszowskiego Angels ...