Papers by Iwona Plisiecka
Niniejszy artykul porusza problemy nieostrości form jezykowych w angielskich tekstach prawnych. ... more Niniejszy artykul porusza problemy nieostrości form jezykowych w angielskich tekstach prawnych. Praca zawiera omowienie problemow terminologicznych związanych z kategoryzacją nieostrości w jezyku angielskim oraz analize wybranych przykladow wyrazen nieostrych, wystepujących w angielskojezycznych tekstach normatywnych. Analizowane przyklady zawierają wyrazenia modalne, a w szczegolności deontyczne uzycia czasownika shall oraz wybrane związki frazeologiczne charakterystyczne dla rejestru prawnego.W przedstawianych rozwazaniach porusza sie takze z punktu widzenia pragmatyki jezykowej problem kodu jezykowego i inferencji. Teza artykulu jest taka: nieostrośc obecna w tekstach prawnych w wielu wypadkach jest lub moze byc niwelowana w wynikuodniesienia do kontekstu, ktory ‘dookreśla’ znaczenie pozornie ogolnych lub nieostrych form jezykowych.
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Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies, the first of the two volumes of Pragmatic Perspecti... more Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies, the first of the two volumes of Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, brings together twenty essays which critically examine linguistic action and explore ways in which it can be accounted for. The articles presented in this collection are all focused on "doing things with words", but in most cases do not subscribe to speech act theory in the tradition of John L. Austin and John R. Searle. The linking thread through the volume is not a theoretical commitment to one of the speech-act theoretical models, but the authors' perspective on language as a means of action, how linguistic expressions become effective in context and how this effectiveness can be explicated. The papers represent different pragmatic approaches and varied levels of expertise in the research area; among the authors there are eminent linguists and philosophers, well established researchers, and young beginners. The texts include purely theore...
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Journal of Pragmatics, 2013
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Research in Language, 2011
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Domains, gathers papers which partly complement and develop the first volume—Speech Actions in Th... more Domains, gathers papers which partly complement and develop the first volume—Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies (CSP, 2010). Most of the texts collected in this volume result from the Fourth Symposium on " New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics " , organized at the University of Łódź, Poland, in May 2008; they have been supplemented with a few relevant contributions to widen the spectrum of contemporary research in pragmatics. Accepting the inevitable failure of any attempt to pose a strict and clear-cut division between the research area of semantics and that of pragmatics, the volume focuses on pragmatics-oriented analyses of data which are best described as " semantically " limited. While Volume One concentrated on speech as a type of action, the present volume, without denying the inherently actional nature of language use, concentrates on limited contexts. Pragmatic phenomena in semantically-restricted domains are addressed from a variety of bot...
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Research in Language
The present text offers a few comments on the metaphorical dimension of legal language and the na... more The present text offers a few comments on the metaphorical dimension of legal language and the nature of legal language as such. The authors discuss selected metaphors in the context of the Polish legislation with the aim to show how the metaphorical dimension of language can be used and abused. It is also demonstrated that the metaphorical dimension of language can cross-cut the interface between language and law on different levels. There are metaphors in legal texts that can be deliberately used to emphasise or cover selected aspects of meaning, and others that can just happen to act irrespective of any premeditated action on the part of the legislator. Finally, in a wider perspective, it is shown that the relation between ordinary language and the language of the law, i.e. ordinary meaning and legal meaning, may itself be seen as a relation between two domains within which metaphorical mapping takes place. It is claimed that the divide between the realm of law and the “real worl...
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Research in Language, 2013
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Pragmatics of Speech Actions, 2013
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The text offers comments on legal translation and its special nature. It is argued that legal tra... more The text offers comments on legal translation and its special nature. It is argued that legal translation is much different from other types of specialised translations. Unlike the language of engineering or medicine, legal language does not only refer to the related specialised practice, i.e. the law, but constitutes legal reality, being at the same time an instrument with which legal disputes are resolved. In the context of translation, legal language is particularly challenging as the process of finding equivalence is not restricted to interlinguistic level, but invites both intralinguistic and intersemiotic considerations. Moving not only between different natural languages, but also between different legal cultures, legal translators have to face problems that can often be naturally found in intercultural communication.
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Journal of Pragmatics, 2007
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Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, 2009
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