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What’s in a Text? Inquiries into the Textual Cornucopia

Edited By: Adam Głaz, Hubert Kowalewski, Anna Weremczuk

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Linguists and translators address fundamental questions about text: What is it? Why do we study it? What are we looking for? This volume helps the reader appreciate the richness of text as a treasure-trove for scholars with various approaches to language.

Numerous linguists of various orientations, translators and literary scholars share an interest in text. As students of language with very diverse interests and aims, they…

Numerous linguists of various orientations, translators and literary scholars share an interest in text. As students of language with very diverse interests and aims, they ask themselves, if only subconsciously, the following questions:

What kind(s) of texts do we study?
Why do we study them?
What are we looking for?
What do and don’t we find?
What do we do with whatever we do find?
What does it tell us about language, its speakers or the human mind?
Generally, what is (a) text for me as a linguist and/or translator?

In the present volume, the questions are brought onto the level of the conscious and addressed by several practitioners in the fields of linguistics and translation – contributions with a literary slant also have a linguistic orientation. Although ultimate answers to these questions may not exist, the ambition of the book is to help the reader appreciate the richness of text and the variety of texts as a treasure-trove for scholars representing multifarious approaches to language.

Adam Głaz, PhD, has been affiliated with the English Department, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland, since 1993. His interests include cognitive semantics, linguistic categorization, viewpoints in language and linguistics, cognitive ethnolinguistics and linguistic applications of Vantage Theory. He has also worked as a translator and lexicographer.

Hubert Kowalewski is a doctoral student at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland. His interests include cognitive semantics, motivation in language, and general semiotics, as well as linguistics and Buddhism.

Anna Weremczuk is a doctoral student at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland. She has researched and written on cognitive pragmatics and Cognitive Grammar.

Joanna Adamiczka, Rafał Augustyn, Olesya Cherkhava, Iryna Dilay, Catherine Emmott, Anna Erlikhman, Alla Gnatiuk, Dorota Gorzycka, Joanna Jabłońska-Hood, Małgorzata Janik, Hubert Kowalewski, Ulf Magnusson, Laryssa Makaruk, Yaroslav Melnyk, Iman Rasti, Angelina Rusinek, Anthony J. Sanford, Katarzyna Stadnik, Joanna Szczepańska-Włoch, Elżbieta Tabakowska, Anna Weremczuk