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The Return to Ethics

Special Issue of The Translator (Volume 7/2, 2001)

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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016

If civilizations are to cooperate as well as clash, our mediators must solve problems using serious thought about relations between Self and Other.   Translation Studies has thus returned to questions of ethics. But this is no return to any prescriptive linguistics of equivalence. As...
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Apropos of Ideology

Translation Studies on Ideology-ideologies in Translation Studies

by Maria Calzada-Perez
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014

Today's worldwide ideological tensions have captured the interest of such varied disciplines as political science, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies and linguistics. There are two primary reasons why translation studies cannot ignore the ideological debate. Historically, translation has always...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018

This volume collects some of Juan Uriagereka’s previously published pieces and presentations on biolinguistics in recent years in one comprehensive volume. The book’s introduction lays the foundation for the field of biolinguistics, which looks to integrate concepts from the natural sciences in...
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The Spanish of the Northern Peruvian Andes

A Sociohistorical and Dialectological Account

by Luis Andrade Ciudad
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016

This book analyses a set of rarely described regional Spanish varieties spoken throughout much of the northern Peruvian Andes (Cajamarca, La Libertad and Ancash) from a sociohistorical and dialectological perspective. What are the main dialectological features of these varieties? Are these features...
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by Otto Jespersen
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013

This book was first published in 1954, A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles is a valuable contribution to the field of English Grammar and Linguistics.
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by Cecilia Wadensjo
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014

Interpreting in Interaction provides an account of interpreter-mediated communication, exploring the responsibilities of the interpreter and the expectations of both the interpreter and of other participants involved in the interaction. The book examines ways of understanding the distribution of responsibility...
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Disability, Discourse and Technology

Agency and Inclusion in (Inter)action

by Najma Al Zidjaly
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016

Exclusion is the main predicament faced by people with disabilities across contexts and cultures, yet it is one of the least academically studied concepts. This book offers an applied linguistics perspective on critical and timely issues in disability research, filling in a number of gaps in discourse analysis and disability studies.
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Generalized Quantifiers

Linguistic and Logical Approaches

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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Some fifteen years ago, research on generalized quantifiers was con­ sidered to be a branch of mathematical logic, mainly carried out by mathematicians. Since then an increasing number of linguists and philosophers have become interested in exploring the relevance of general quantifiers for natural...
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by Gregory S. Moss
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014

Ernst Cassirer and the Autonomy of Language examines the central arguments in Cassirer’s first volume of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. Gregory Moss demonstrates both how Cassirer defends language as an autonomous cultural form and how he borrows the concept of the “concrete universal” from...
Cover of Pragmatics, Semantics and the Case of Scalar Implicatures
by Salvatore Pistoia Reda
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014

This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 years. Leading theorists in the field offer an up-to-date presentation of the subject in a way that will help readers to orient themselves in the vast literature on the topic.
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by Barbara Johnstone
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017

Revised and updated, this third edition of Barbara Johnstone’s Discourse Analysis encourages students to think about discourse analysis as an open-ended set of techniques. Exploring a variety of approaches, including critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, interactional and variationist...
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Rhetorica movet!

History of language studies

by Sebastian Hoos
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010

Essay from the year 1994 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: A, , course: Graduate course, language: English, abstract: This piece is a response paper of the humanities course lectured by Prof. Ferreire Buckley at the University of texas. It intends to highlight the meaning and importance...
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American English

Dialects and Variation

by Walt Wolfram, Natalie Schilling
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015

The new edition of this classic text chronicles recent breakthrough developments in the field of American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences. Now accompanied by a companion website with an extensive array of sound files, video clips, and other online materials to...
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by Kozma Ahacic
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014

This book is the first work on this topic to have been published in English and is thus brought before the international public. A preliminary sociolinguistic survey of the major issues concerning language use in 16th century Slovenia is followed by the central section – an analysis of Adam Bohorič’s...
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