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This book examines the linguistic phenomenon of pragmatemes - fixed expressions used predictably in specific communication contexts, such as ""Bless you"" after someone sneezes or ""Cash or credit?"" in a retail setting. Though often overlooked, these units are vital to everyday communication, playing a significant role in language fluency. The author investigates pragmatemes from contrastive and translational perspectives, analyzing English, French, and Polish units found in TV series subtitles. The study proposes a universally applicable definition of pragmatemes and explores their structural traits across these three languages through comprehensive linguistic and corpus-based analysis. Additionally, the book introduces a novel context-based approach to translation techniques in subtitling, offering fresh insights into audiovisual translation challenges. With its innovative methodology and rich comparative analysis, this work makes a valuable contribution to linguistics and translation studies.

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Judyta Mêżyk is an assistant professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. She earned a double PhD in linguistics in 2024 from the University of Silesia and the Paris-East Créteil University, France. She has published papers and book chapters on audiovisual translation, interpreting, terminology, and formulaic language.

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