Mikolaj Deckert - Language, Expressivity and Cognition

Language, Expressivity and Cognition

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Language, Expressivity and Cognition

Edited by
Mikoaj Deckert, Piotr Pzik, and Raffaele Zago

Mikoaj Deckert, Piotr Pzik and Raffaele Zago

Judit Baranyin Kczy

Marcin Trojszczak and Chiara Astrid Gebbia

Serena Coschignano and Chiara Zanchi

Ester Di Silvestro

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Paul A. Wilson

Mikoaj Deckert, Krzysztof Hejduk and Piotr Pzik

Lucia La Causa

Silvia Bruti

Hilal Erkazanci Durmu and irin Okyayuz

Raffaele Zago

We wish to thank Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (State University of Applied Sciences in Konin) for coming up with the idea of cyclical workshops that bring together researchers interested in the interface of language and emotion the Language, Heart and Mind series of workshops. Similarly, we wish to acknowledge the advice and support on many levels from Marco Venuti (University of Catania) and Francesca Vigo (University of Catania), who have been shaping the Language, Heart and Mind project from its very beginning. With high-quality papers, methodologically and disciplinarily varied line-ups as well as remarkable thematic consistency, those meetings have been a great source of insight. Notably, some of the work discussed at the workshop held at the University of Catania in December 2020 is included in the current volume, alongside invited contributions that we were fortunate enough to be able to integrate into this book.

Thanks are also due to the anonymous reviewers for their extremely helpful observations on the book and to Krzysztof Hejduk (University of d) for his invaluable assistance throughout the editorial process.

Mikoaj, Piotr, Raffaele,
d and Comiso, June 2022

Silvia Bruti is Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Department of Philology, Literature, Linguistics of the University of Pisa, Italy. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, pragmatics and applied linguistics, with a special focus on corpus linguistics, translation (especially audiovisual) and the teaching of English. She has published widely in these areas. In particular, her book-length studies are on the translation of politeness (2013) and on interlingual subtitling (a co-authored volume, 2017).

Serena Coschignano is a PhD student in Linguistic Sciences at the University of Bergamo/University of Pavia, Italy. Her research interests focus on frame semantics, cognitive metaphor theory and critical discourse analysis. She has published on metaphorical extensions of Italian temperature terms and on the discursive construction of antagonisms in political tweets.

Mikoaj Deckert is Associate Professor in the Institute of English Studies at the University of d, Poland. His research is primarily in interlingual translation, with emphasis on audiovisual translation and media accessibility, but also more broadly deals with language from a cognitive perspective. He serves as peer-review editor for the Journal of Specialised Translation (JoSTrans) and has recently co-edited The Palgrave Handbook of Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility (2020, with ukasz Bogucki).

Ester Di Silvestro holds a PhD in Interpretation Sciences from the University of Catania, Italy. Her PhD dissertation focused on a comparative analysis of far-right populist discourse in Italy and in the United States. Specifically, she analysed and compared the populist discourses of Matteo Salvini and Donald J. Trump. Her research is mainly located in critical discourse analysis and in corpus linguistics. In addition to political discourse, she is also interested in the textual and visual analysis of gender representations.

Hilal Erkazanci Durmu is Lecturer at Hacettepe University, Turkey, in the Department of Translation and Interpreting. Her research interests include sociology of translation, translational stylistics and discourse analysis. Her recent works focus on image construction through translation.