On linguistic and cultural concepts in literature and its translations. A few words about the new scientific publishing house of the Carpathian State University in Krosno

Abstract

The article presents an overview of Leokadia Styrcz-Przebinda’s book “Linguo-cultural Concepts and Translation. Nabokov and others”. This book presents a number of works by the author showing a wide range of her scientific and translational interests, but focusing primarily on the study of specific concepts of linguo-cultural set in a broad literary context. The focus was on Russian linguo-cultural concepts: sadness/longing and happiness/joy considered in the context of other European languages. An important sphere of achievements of the author of the collection are translations of theoretical works by the Russian linguist Grigory Kruzhkov, which can inspire other researchers to undertake bold scientific challenges, are also an important sphere of the author’s achievements. The presented review shows the most important qualities of the book and allows us to evaluate its great scientific and cognitive qualities.