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Understanding by Communication
The main problems tackled in the book deal with the features of communication models and communication efficiency in various discourse types (mass media or interpersonal communication). This volume contains texts that reflect the problems regarded as the most important for investigating the process of understanding. The contemporary linguistic paradigms, such as Generative Grammar, Cognitive approach, Pragmatics, Discourse analysis and others are taken into consideration by the authors. Part One is focused on theoretical models and aspects of the investigation of the understanding process. Though there is no universal theory of communication represented in this book, the input highlights the important approaches based on analysis of some aspects of understanding such as communication models, the phenomenon of potentiality and multicultural contradictions, understanding of genres of speech, and the role of lexis. Part Two focuses on some didactic problems connected with understanding, while Part Three represents the results of analyzing understanding in Machine Translation, in the language of diplomacy and politics, and in marketing communication.