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This volume is dedicated to Professor Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Head of the Department of English and General Linguistics at the University of Lódz, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It includes texts written by his students, colleagues and friends, dealing with a variety of urgent, widely discussed topics in the contemporary language studies. Spanning contributions from language history, philosophy, rhetoric and argumentation, methodology, and discourse studies, it provides an authoritative outline of the field and a timely response to the existing challenges, thus making for a concise handbook of modern linguistics. It is recommended to graduate students of philology, as well as researchers working in linguistics and other disciplines within the broad spectrum of humanities and social sciences.
List of contents
linguistics - language history - philosophy of language - argumentation - rhetoric - methodology - discourse studies - challenges in language analysis - interdisciplinarity - domains of linguistics - research procedures - methods of linguistics - linguistic theory - language data
About the author
¿ukasz Bogucki is Professor of Linguistics at the University of ¿ód¿, Poland. His interests are in translation studies, interpreting studies, audiovisual translation, and translation methodology.
Piotr Cap is Professor of Linguistics at the University of ¿ód¿, Poland. His interests are in cognitive pragmatics, critical discourse studies, political linguistics, genre theory, and methodology of linguistic analysis.
