Languages – Cultures – Worldviews

Adam Głaz is Associate Professor of English and Linguistics at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) in Lublin, Poland. He researches cognitive and cultural linguistics, linguistic worldview, and translation.

• Chapter 1: Introduction (Adam Głaz).- PART I: SETTING THE SCENE: WORLDVIEWS EMERGING, WORLDVIEWS EXPRESSED.- Chapter 2: Linguistic Relativity in the Age of Ontology: How Language Shapes Worldview, and Ways of Being, Even Going Beyond the Human (Sean O'Neill).- Chapter 3: Translating a Worldview in the Longue Durée: The Tale of "the Bear's Son" (Roslyn M. Frank).- PART II: RETHINKING TRANSLATION.- Chapter 4: Translation as Philology as Love (John Leavitt).- Chapter 5: Bourdieu's Distinction (Translating) Language as a Means of Expressing Worldviews (Nigel Armstrong).- Chapter 6: The Sociological Turn in Translation Studies and Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology: A Case of Convergence of Divergence? (Patrycja Karpińska).- PART III: THE SHAPING OF WORLDVIEWS: FOCUS ON PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION.- Chapter 7: Translational Roots of Western Essentialism (Piotr Blumczynski).- Chapter 8: Buber/Rosenzweig's and Meschonnic's Bible Translations: Biblical Hebrew as Transformer of Language Theory and Society (Marko Pajevič).- Chapter 9: St. Petro Mohyla's Catechism in Translation: A Term System via the Prism of Axiological Modelling and Cultural Matrix (Tara Shmiher).- Chapter 10: Borrowings and the Linguistic Worldview or How to Domesticate Foreignness (Jerzy Bartmiński).- PART IV: TRANSLATING WORLDVIEWS ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES.- Chapter 11: Do Paradoxes Have a Place in Worldviews? Conceptual Configurations of "Heart" and Their Contradictions in English and Other Languages (James W. Underhill)- Chapter 12: Traces of Speaker's Worldview in Translations of EU Parliamentary Debate (Anna Wyrwa).- Chapter 13: The Cultural Semantics of Untranslatables: Linguistic Worldview and the Danish Language of Laughter (Carsten Levisen).- PART V: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE DETAILS: FOCUS ON DICTION, GRAMMAR AND STYLE.- Chapter 14: Norwegian Translations of Anne of Green Gables: Omissions and Textual Manipulations (Susan Erdmann and Barbara Gawrońska Pettersson).- Chapter 15:Cultural References and Linguistic Exponents of Gender in the Norwegian Translation of Michal Witkowski's Lubiewo (Barbara Gawrońska Pettersson).- Chapter 16: The Many Faces of Alice: Twists and Turns of Lewis Carroll's Classic in Poland (Monika Adamczyck-Garbowska).- Chapter 17: Historical Narrative as a Cultural Text (Elżbieta Tabakowska).