Social and cultural factors shape the linguistic perception of colour. At the same time, colour terms co-create the linguistic image of the world, which allows us to interpret reality and profile our statements and beliefs. This paper presents six basic colour terms: white, black, red, green, yellow, and blue (both as adjectives and as nouns) in the five different linguistic images of the world of the following languages: English,...

This doctoral thesis aims to examine the interlingual transfer of verbal-nominal collocations in literary translation by analysing in detail 6 578 examples. The corpus of the thesis consists of the first seven novels by the contemporary French writer Michel Houellebecq published over a quarter of a century, namely between 1994 and 2019. The corpus includes the novels in their original language — French — and their translations...

The paper presents the biography of Marceli Tarnowski (1899–1942), a Polish translator of 145 books, bookseller, editor, journalist, creator of the screenplay for the movie “Przybłęda”, and the author of an unfinished book about the Warsaw Ghetto. Tarnowski, who tragically died during World War II, was a member of the Bibliophiles’ Association in Łódź, the Polish Booksellers Association, and a co-founder...