Published in Spiritual Care
Das Konzept des modernen Hospizes (Cicely Saunders, London) wurde in Deutschland 1971 durch zwei erfolgreiche Fernsehfilme bekannt gemacht. Autor war der Jesuitenpater Reinhold Iblacker, der bis 1984 noch ca. 100 weitere wertorientierte Medienbeiträge produzierte. Als er aus gesundheitlichen Gründen diese breite Medienarbeit beenden musste, begann ...
Published in Artes. Journal of Musicology
Music is a universal force, a widely spread mean of communication on the entire planet, because it has a strong ability to influence human emotions, even without words (when referring to instrumental or symphonic music). Thus, music is one of the most challenging arts in ‘deciphering’ the hidden message of its creator. The present paper is focused ...
In the context of digital image processing and analysis, the Binary Partition Tree (BPT) is a classical data-structure forthe hierarchical modelling of images at different scales. BPTs belong both to the families of graph-based models andmorphological hierarchies. They constitute an efficient way to define sets of nested partitions of image support...
Published in Lodz Papers in Pragmatics
The present paper focuses on a Critical Discourse Analysis of an online discussion opposing 4chan users and pop singer Lauren Mayberry, regarding a video posted on YouTube. The lead singer of the band Chvrches gets targeted for being a feminist activist and appearing in a skimpy dress and occasionally wet hair in a music video, thus raising sexuall...
Published in Open Linguistics
This article will explore the linguistic implications of employing and creating sound symbolism (ideophones, onomatopoeia and interjections) in Italian Disney comics. It will endeavour to investigate the way sound symbolic forms in both imported Disney US comics and original Italian stories have profoundly influenced the development of Italian soun...
Published in Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis
We explore human judgments on how well individual patterns of 29 target verbs from the Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs describe their random KWICs. We focus on cases where more than one pattern is judged as highly appropriate for a given KWIC and seek to estimate the effect of event participants (arguments) being denotatively similar in two pat...
Published in Quaestiones Geographicae
This paper deals with the ways of categorising landscapes as ‘urban’ and ‘rural’ using a physicalist approach, where these terms have special meaning. The aim of this paper is to elaborate on the question whether such a division is still meaningful with regard to anthropogenic landscapes, not least in spatial planning. The concerns raised in this p...
Published in Studia Anglica Posnaniensia
The development of dare in the history of English has played an important role in the literature on grammatical change and (de)grammaticalization. This paper aims to clarify two issues regarding the syntax and semantics of dare in earlier English: when it is first attested with to-infinitives, and to what extent it can be said to have been semantic...
Published in Sustainable Multilingualism
Translation of terminology is an essential factor and often a challenging task in the translation of legal acts. Various databases are available to facilitate the translation process and ensure its quality. The main inter-institutional terminology database of the European Union is IATE (“Inter Active Terminology for Europe”). The aim of the paper i...
In recent years, attempts to simplify the grammatical mechanisms used in syntax have led to proposals to reduce the relationships between elements in a sentence to relations between heads and complements, doing away with free adjunction. For the analysis of modifying relations one consequence has been the rise of analyses that use the properties of...
