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Speech acts and the autonomy of linguistic pragmatics

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Witczak-Plisiecka I.

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

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2009

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vol. 5

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issue 1

85-106

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This paper comments on selected problems of the definition of linguistic pragmatics with a focus on notions associated with speech act theory in the tradition of John Langshaw Austin. In more detail it concentrates on the (ir)relevance of the use of the Austinian categorisation into locution, illocution, and perlocution in locating a divide in between pragmatics and semantics, and especially the distinction between the locutionary act and the illocutionary act and its implications for the definition of pragmatics and its separation from the semantic theory.The relation between form and meaning is further briefly reviewed against dichotomies including the Gricean and neo-Gricean ‘what is said’ versus ‘what is implicated’ or meant, between what can be ‘locuted’, but not said, and what can be said, but not asserted. These dichotomies are related to the theoretical commitments as to the accepted operative forces in speech acts, primarily convention and intention. It is suggested that, roughly, the development of the speech act theory can be viewed as a process by which the theory moves away from its originally sociolinguistic orientation towards a more psychologistic account, which in turn leads towards diminishing the role of (traditional) semantics and the subsequent juxtaposition of pragmatics and syntax rather than pragmatics and semantics.

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A Note on the Linguistic (In)Determinacy in the Legal Context

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Witczak-Plisiecka I.

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

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2009

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vol. 5

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issue 2

201-226

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This paper discusses linguistic vagueness in the context of a semantically restricted domain of legal language. It comments on selected aspects of vagueness found in contemporary English normative legal texts and on terminological problems related to vagueness and indeterminacy both in the legal domain and language in general. The discussion is illustrated with selected corpus examples of vagueness in English legal language and attempts to show problems of the relation between vagueness and ambiguity in the context of legal institutionalised systems.The discussion also evokes theoretical issues which pertain to the relation between legal texts and their contexts, the problem of how linguistic forms acquire their contextual meaning and how linguistic expressions are disambiguated. These issues are further related to the post-Gricean theory of relevance, its inferential model of communication, and the interplay between the linguistic code and inferential processes in (specialised) communication.

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RESEARCHING MEANING, CONTEXT AND COGNITION EDITORIAL TO RIL SPECIAL ISSUE

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Witczak-Plisiecka I.

Research in Language

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2013

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vol. 11

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issue 2

1-3

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Cognitive and Pragmatic Perspectives on Speech Actions. Editorial to Ril 10.3

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Witczak-Plisiecka I.

Research in Language

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2012

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vol. 10

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issue 3

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Researching Meaning, Context And Cognition Editorial To RiL Special Issue

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Witczak-Plisiecka I.

Research in Language

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2013

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vol. 11

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issue 2

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A Few Remarks on Legal Translation and Intercultural Encounters

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Witczak-Plisiecka I.

Research in Language

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2020

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vol. 18

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issue 3

265-281

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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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Editorial to Research in Language 11:3

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Witczak-Plisiecka I.

Research in Language

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2013

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vol. 11

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issue 3

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Editorial

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Witczak-Plisiecka I., Cap P.

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

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2009

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vol. 5

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issue 2

157-159

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The many faces of speech act theory - editorial to special issue on speech actions

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Witczak-Plisiecka I., Witek M.

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

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2009

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vol. 5

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issue 1

1-8

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Metaphors and Legal Language: a Few Comments on Ordinary, Specialised and Legal Meaning

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Wojtczak S., Witczak-Plisiecka I.

Research in Language

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2019

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vol. 17

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issue 3

273-295

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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 world” goes beyond a trivial division relative to expertise in the law and expertise in legal discourse, but can be better understood as the division between the legal community and the non-legal community including the academia where linguists reside.

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Editorial to Special Issue on Legal Terminology

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Goźdź-Roszkowski S., Witczak-Plisiecka I.

Research in Language

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2011

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vol. 9

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issue 1

5-8

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Translation in Semantically-Restricted and Professional Domains: In Search of a Theory-Editorial to Ril 18.

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Witczak-Plisiecka I., Platonova M.

Research in Language

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2020

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vol. 18

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issue 3

235-244

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This paper comments on selected problems related to the theory and practice of translation in various professional, and other semantically-restricted domains. The text introduces a selection of papers published in Research in Language, Vol. 18, No. 3, which together with a number of papers published in RiL earlier issues collectively present various research programmes which link translation and specialised discourses. The field of specialised languages is constantly growing, including new professional varieties and new approaches. There are numerous publications and journals focusing on LSP problems, as well as conferences which offer fora for relevant discussions. Selected articles in the volume originated from conference meetings “Meaning in Translation,” held in Riga, Latvia. The present paper comments on selected approaches to semantically-restricted domains in translation and features of specialised and professional discourses.

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Editorial

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Witczak-Plisiecka I.

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

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2010

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vol. 6

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issue 1

1-2

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Editorial

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Cap P., Witczak-Plisiecka I.

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

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2007

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vol. 3

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issue -1

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EDITORIAL TO RIL 11:3

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Witczak-Plisiecka I.

Research in Language

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2013

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vol. 11

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issue 3

1-2

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Research in Language 12:1. Editorial Note

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Witczak-Plisiecka I.

Research in Language

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2014

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vol. 12

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issue 1

17

Book Reviews

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Åfarli T. A., Jakielaszek J., Witczak-Plisiecka I., Pskit W., Szpyra-Kozłowska J., Ostalski P., Majewicz A. F.

Research in Language

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2007

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vol. 5

251-292

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Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Eva F. Schultze-Berndt (eds), Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification: The Typology of Depictives, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xxv + 448 pages Edward L. Keenan, Edward P. Stabler, Bare Grammar: Lectures on Linguistic Invariants. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2003. 192 pp. Siobhan Chapman, Thinking about Language. Theories of English. Houndsmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. X + 174 pages. pb (Series: Perspectives on the English Language) Judith Rodby, W. Ross Winterowd, The Uses of Grammar, Oxford: Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xiv + 274 pp. Laura J. Downing, Alan T. Hall and Renate Raffelsiefen (eds), Paradigms in Phonological Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 349 pages. Max W. Wheeler, The Phonology of Catalan. (The Phonology of the World’s Languages). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. XI + 387 pp. Jan-Olof Svantesson, Anna Tsendina, Anastasia Karlson, and Vivan Franzén, The Phonology of Mongolian. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xix + 314. Cliff Goddard, The Languages of East and Southeast Asia. An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. pp. xvi + 315.

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Speech acts and the autonomy of linguistic pragmatics

A Note on the Linguistic (In)Determinacy in the Legal Context

RESEARCHING MEANING, CONTEXT AND COGNITION EDITORIAL TO RIL SPECIAL ISSUE

Cognitive and Pragmatic Perspectives on Speech Actions. Editorial to Ril 10.3

Researching Meaning, Context And Cognition Editorial To RiL Special Issue

A Few Remarks on Legal Translation and Intercultural Encounters

Editorial to Research in Language 11:3

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The many faces of speech act theory - editorial to special issue on speech actions

Metaphors and Legal Language: a Few Comments on Ordinary, Specialised and Legal Meaning

Editorial to Special Issue on Legal Terminology

Translation in Semantically-Restricted and Professional Domains: In Search of a Theory-Editorial to Ril 18.

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EDITORIAL TO RIL 11:3

Research in Language 12:1. Editorial Note

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