Cognitive Approaches to Specialist Languages

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TABLE OF CONTENTS


Preface ...................................................................................................... viii


Part I. Introduction


Chapter One ................................................................................................. 2
Specialist Languages and Cognitive Linguistics: A Marriage
of Convenience or Irreconcilable Opposites?
Marcin Grygiel


Part II. Language of Discourse Communities


Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 16
A Cognitive Linguistics Approach to the Discourse of Drug Information
for Experts and Patients
Maria Cornelia Wermuth


Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 55
Are (Polish) Politicians out of this World? Conceptual Metaphors
of Outer Space in Political Discourse
Ewa GieroĔ-Czepczor


Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 78
The Same Genre for Different Audiences: A Contrastive Analysis
of American and British Football Match Reports
Marcin Lewandowski


Part III. Language of Business and Finance


Chapter Five ............................................................................................ 100
Inferential Patterns in the Translation of Financial Metaphors
José Mateo


Chapter Six .............................................................................................. 126
Keep Your Head in the Clouds and Your Feet on the Ground:
The Metaphorics of Financial Management
Marcin Grygiel

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