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The book deals with the synesthetic metaphors in Synamet – a semantically and grammatically annotated corpus. The texts included in the corpus are excerpted from blogs devoted to, among others, perfume, wine, beer, music, art, massage and wellness. The thesis presents a Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) and frame-based analysis of synesthetic metaphors in Polish. Using data from the corpus, the book provides ample empirical support for embodiment in metaphor and internal logic of mappings between frames. The study proposes new models of verbal synesthesia in the corpus and calls into question a universality of hierarchy of senses. This book should be of interest to researchers working within cognitive linguistics, in particular metaphor theory, frame semantics, corpus linguistics, and sensory science.

«Kanake» oder «Kartoffel»? Wörter beschreiben mehr als einzelne Objekte. Wörter teilen ein, grenzen aus und werten ab. Das soziale Phänomen der alltäglichen verbalen Gewalt stellt der Band am Beispiel des Amateurfußballs in Deutschland und Frankreich explorativ dar. Der Autor veranschaulicht, dass verbale Gewalt im Amateurfußball in beiden Ländern weit verbreitet ist. Die Mehrheit der berichteten konkreten verbalen Gewalt lässt dabei auf Gruppenbezogene Menschenfeindliche Einstellungen schließen. Hierbei überwiegen sexistische Beleidigungen. Zudem zeigen die Ergebnisse, dass der Schiedsrichter verbale Gewalt höchst unterschiedlich bewertet. Landesspezifische Konflikte schlagen sich hingegen nicht signifikant bei der Bewertung von verbaler Gewalt durch den Amateurschiedsrichter nieder. Vielmehr kann angenommen werden, dass das Regelwerk der FiFA Richtschnur deutscher und französischer Amateurschiedsrichter ist.

La complejidad y diversidad de los actuales contextos multilingües se refleja en este volumen donde, desde diversas disciplinas y metodologías mixtas, los investigadores e investigadoras se centran en aquellos aspectos de la formación de mediadores y docentes de lenguas extranjeras que son susceptibles de potenciar al máximo el desarrollo de competencias comunicativas e interculturales. Estas, en combinación con un adecuado nivel de competencia digital docente, forman el bagaje imprescindible para que la participación de estos agentes bilingües o multilingües sea de impacto en sociedades con un alto grado de globalización.

El presente libro recoge trabajos punteros de investigación sobre traducción, adaptación y doble destinatario en LIJ. Se estudian géneros tan variados como el álbum ilustrado, la poesía o las historias en formato audiovisual. Sus autores proceden de países como Alemania, Brasil, Costa Rica, España, Francia, Finlandia, Israel, Italia, Portugal o Reino Unido. Autoras como Riitta Oittinen o Zohar Shavit ofrecen una visión nueva sobre obras clásicas. Asimismo, se pueden encontrar proyectos innovadores de aplicación en el aula. Supone abrir una puerta que nos acercará a la literatura para niños y jóvenes de cada uno de esos lugares. Es, sin duda, una muestra representativa de dónde se encuentra y hacia dónde se dirige la investigación de LIJ en el contexto internacional en la actualidad.

Translation quality assessment (TQA) is a growing topic in the field of Translation Studies. The present book focuses mainly on the translation quality assessment in Persian subtitles of English movies as an almost ignored topic in Translation Studies. The aim is to propose criteria for the evaluation of subtitles. To reach this goal, the author divides the case studies of the present research into two subcategories, i.e., musical movies and non-musical ones. The base for the quality assessment of musical movies is the Semiotic Model of TQA for poetry applied to three movie subtitles, «Anastasia, «Sweeney Todd» and «Les Misérables». This leads to a tentative model for the evaluation of Persian subtitles of English musical movies. The second part of the book focuses mainly on the omission of the interpersonal elements in Persian subtitles of English movies using appraisal theory as the theoretical framework. The theory is applied to the subtitles of two movies, «Prisoners» and «Houdini» leading to criteria for the evaluation of Persian subtitles of English movies.　 　　

Speech practices as discursive practices for meaning-making across domains, genres, and social groups is an under-researched, highly complex field of sociolinguistics. This field has gained momentum after innovative studies of adolescents and young adults with mixed ethnic and language backgrounds revealed that they «cross» language and dialectal or vernacular borders to construct their own hybrid discursive identities. The focus in this volume is on the diversity of emerging hybridizing speech practices through contact with English, predominantly in Europe. Contributions to this collected volume originate from the DFG funded conference on language contact in times of globalization (LCTG4) and from members of the editor’s funded research group «Discursive Multilingualism».

Le volume réunit les diverses recherches présentées lors du XI^ème Colloque International d’Argotologie de Leipzig 2017 par des spécialistes de littérature, linguistique et pédagogie de divers pays – Allemagne, Espagne, France, Hongrie, Pologne, République tchèque, Roumanie, Russie et Slovénie. Ils constituent un ensemble d’informations à propos de la manière, selon laquelle on parle de la nourriture, de la préparation des aliments, de la cuisine, de la gastronomie, ainsi que de l’action de manger en langue officielle, administrative, voire en langue standard, mais aussi en langue populaire et argotique. Ils permettent de comprendre quelles sont les fonctions exercées, lorsque l’on choisit un registre particulier de langue pour parler de nourritures diverses et de l’action de manger.

Dan Ben-Amos famously ushered in the performance turn in folklore studies in the 1970s with his paradigm-changing definition of folklore as "artistic communication in small groups." He went on to make profound contributions to issues of folktale, folk speech, genre, cultural memory, biblical and Jewish folklore, African folklore, and historiography, and gain renown around the world as a leading figure in folklore studies. In Contexts of Folklore, leading lights of folklore studies from many corners of the globe honor Ben-Amos by presenting original studies inspired by his insights. Their essays will assuredly be lasting, provocative statements of folklore research that will energize future generations of folklorists and other scholars of culture and communication.