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Contextualizing Translation Theories
Aspects of Arabic–English Interlingual Communication
This volume provides critical readings of Arabic–English translation strategies, from equivalence to domestication and foreignization. It demonstrates the pros and cons of each within a theoretical context, augmented by examples from actual textual data.
This volume provides critical readings of Arabic–English translation strategies, from equivalence to domestication and foreignization. It demonstrates the pros and cons of each within a theoretical context, augmented by examples from actual textual data.
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This volume explores new directions in Hispanic linguistics, focusing on understudied topics and speech communities. Presenting new takes on key linguistic and sociocultural issues, its relevance reaches far beyond the confines of the Hispanic World.
This volume explores new directions in Hispanic linguistics, focusing on understudied topics and speech communities. Presenting new takes on key linguistic and sociocultural issues, its relevance reaches far beyond the confines of the Hispanic World.
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Going Global
Transnational Perspectives on Globalization, Language, and Education
Is English a tool of oppression, or an opportunity for greater understanding? This volume of critical essays explores questions of language, education, and culture in a globalized world, honoring students’ cultures while preparing them for an uncertain future.
Is English a tool of oppression, or an opportunity for greater understanding? This volume of critical essays explores questions of language, education, and culture in a globalized world, honoring students’ cultures while preparing them for an uncertain future.
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Shifting Visions
Gender and Discourses
This global, interdisciplinary collection explores how gender and language create lived experience. Studies analyze topics from religion and politics to education and sexuality, with scholarship from Britain, Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa.
This global, interdisciplinary collection explores how gender and language create lived experience. Studies analyze topics from religion and politics to education and sexuality, with scholarship from Britain, Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa.
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Gender and Sexual Identities in Transition
International Perspectives
This volume offers an international panorama of how gendered and sexualized identities are created, challenged, and refused across the globe. As unstable constructions in permanent transition, gender and sexual identities are never at rest.
This volume offers an international panorama of how gendered and sexualized identities are created, challenged, and refused across the globe. As unstable constructions in permanent transition, gender and sexual identities are never at rest.
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Breakcore
Identity and Interaction on Peer-to-Peer
This interdisciplinary ethnography examines interaction and exchange within the 'bedroom producer' culture of 'breakcore' electronic music. It explores the cultural politics and aesthetics of identity in this environment, highlighting gender, ethnicity, and technology.
This interdisciplinary ethnography examines interaction and exchange within the ‘bedroom producer’ culture of ‘breakcore’ electronic music. It explores the cultural politics and aesthetics of identity in this environment, highlighting gender, ethnicity, and technology.
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Stemming from a corpus linguistics and language variation workshop, this text brings together studies on specialist knowledge dissemination in English. It describes how knowledge dissemination’s essential aspect is the analysis of the language that builds trust in interactions.
Stemming from a corpus linguistics and language variation workshop, this text brings together studies on specialist knowledge dissemination in English. It describes how knowledge dissemination’s essential aspect is the analysis of the language that builds trust in interactions.
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Gender-Based Differences in Exposure to and Usage of Camfranglais in Yaoundé
The Power to Exclude?
This book explores the Cameroonian youth language Camfranglais—a mix of French, English, Pidgin and local languages—from a rare gender-based approach. It focuses on female speakers, their experiences of exclusion, and the factors that contribute to male dominance in its usage.
This book explores the Cameroonian youth language Camfranglais—a mix of French, English, Pidgin and local languages—from a rare gender-based approach. It focuses on female speakers, their experiences of exclusion, and the factors that contribute to male dominance in its usage.
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Persuasion in Tourism Discourse
Methodologies and Models
Manca proposes an original approach to the study of tourism discourse by combining several methodologies and models, including Halliday’s systemic functional grammar. The result is a detailed linguistic and socio-cultural overview of the most common strategies of persuasion.
Manca proposes an original approach to the study of tourism discourse by combining several methodologies and models, including Halliday’s systemic functional grammar. The result is a detailed linguistic and socio-cultural overview of the most common strategies of persuasion.
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Foreign Women Authors under Fascism and Francoism
Gender, Translation and Censorship
This collection highlights cultural features and processes which characterized translation practice under the dictatorships of Mussolini and Franco. It brings to the fore the “microhistory” that exists behind every publishing proposal, whether collective or individual.
This collection highlights cultural features and processes which characterized translation practice under the dictatorships of Mussolini and Franco. It brings to the fore the “microhistory” that exists behind every publishing proposal, whether collective or individual.
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This book frees the ‘lamp genies’ from dictionaries, discussing their role in expressing cultural aspects of language, with special reference to English. It is for anyone interested in the juice of culture that can be fruitfully extracted from dictionary entries.
This book frees the ‘lamp genies’ from dictionaries, discussing their role in expressing cultural aspects of language, with special reference to English. It is for anyone interested in the juice of culture that can be fruitfully extracted from dictionary entries.
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Italian Communities Abroad
Multilingualism and Migration
This volume provides an overview of research on Italian communities abroad, and, thus, represents an important contribution to the recent wave of paradigm renewal in the field of migration (socio)linguistics of Italian.
This volume provides an overview of research on Italian communities abroad, and, thus, represents an important contribution to the recent wave of paradigm renewal in the field of migration (socio)linguistics of Italian.
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This volume explores core issues in figurative language and thought across fourteen languages. It examines the relationship between literal and figurative meaning, the role of metaphor and metonymy as cognitive tools, and the import of cognitive models in communication.
This volume explores core issues in figurative language and thought across fourteen languages. It examines the relationship between literal and figurative meaning, the role of metaphor and metonymy as cognitive tools, and the import of cognitive models in communication.
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Learning Across Borders
Perspectives on International and Transnational Higher Education
Given the growing numbers of students in cross-border spaces, educators have had to revise their curricula and pedagogical approaches. This edited collection contributes to the body of research in international education by examining globalisation’s impact on higher education.
Given the growing numbers of students in cross-border spaces, educators have had to revise their curricula and pedagogical approaches. This edited collection contributes to the body of research in international education by examining globalisation’s impact on higher education.
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This anthology explores the concept of space in literature, film, art, and culture. The contributions invite readers to consider the function of space as symbolic representation, analytical tool, and haunting effect, demonstrating its ethical and political impact.
This anthology explores the concept of space in literature, film, art, and culture. The contributions invite readers to consider the function of space as symbolic representation, analytical tool, and haunting effect, demonstrating its ethical and political impact.
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News Discourse and Digital Currents
A Corpus-Based Genre Analysis of News Tickers
This book investigates the under-researched genre of news tickers. Based on a year-long collection from BBC World News, it uses corpus-based analysis to define tickers as a mixed genre that combines headlines and leads to achieve specific marketization strategies.
This book investigates the under-researched genre of news tickers. Based on a year-long collection from BBC World News, it uses corpus-based analysis to define tickers as a mixed genre that combines headlines and leads to achieve specific marketization strategies.
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Knowledge, Differences and Identity in the Time of Globalization
Institutional Discourse and Practices
The discourse of globalization in higher education reform is troubling. It fails to name a human subject—the student—and its very language antagonizes and marginalizes them. This book explores how this discourse constructs and deconstructs identities.
The discourse of globalization in higher education reform is troubling. It fails to name a human subject—the student—and its very language antagonizes and marginalizes them. This book explores how this discourse constructs and deconstructs identities.
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World English(es) and the Multilingual Turn
Frameworks of Complex Phenomena
Bonomo considers the social value of communication as the basis of multilingualism and of the evolution of language systems. Her data show English as being in the middle of the double “listening” of cultural mediation and the imperfect “magnifying” glass of translation.
Bonomo considers the social value of communication as the basis of multilingualism and of the evolution of language systems. Her data show English as being in the middle of the double “listening” of cultural mediation and the imperfect “magnifying” glass of translation.
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This collection synthesizes research in Mayan linguistics, balancing recent linguistic theories with rich, new empirical data gathered from fieldwork. The findings have implications for understanding Mayan grammars and for universal linguistic theory.
This collection synthesizes research in Mayan linguistics, balancing recent linguistic theories with rich, new empirical data gathered from fieldwork. The findings have implications for understanding Mayan grammars and for universal linguistic theory.
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This book provides a theoretical and practical framework for researchers and practitioners focusing on the construction, interpretation and retextualisation of audiovisual texts, using a selection of humorous, English-language media.
This book provides a theoretical and practical framework for researchers and practitioners focusing on the construction, interpretation and retextualisation of audiovisual texts, using a selection of humorous, English-language media.
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