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Author | : Mohammad Ali Jazayery |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 813 |
Release | : 2010-11-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110864355 |
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This collection of 64 papers by contributors throughout the world presents work from a variety of fields, primarily Indo-European linguistics and philology, and thus reflects the broad interests of Edgar C. Polomé.
Author | : Anuradha Dingwaney |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2010-11-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0822974681 |
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Translated texts are often either uncritically consumed by readers, teacher, and scholars or seen to represent an ineluctable loss, a diminishing of original texts. Translation, however, is a cultural practice, influenced also by social and political imperatives, which can open more doors than it closes. The essays in this book show how the act of translation, when vigilantly and critically attended to, becomes a means for active interrogation.
Author | : Karen Risager |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1853598585 |
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The book presents a new theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. The fundamental view is that languages spread across cultures, and cultures spread across languages, or in other words, that linguistic and cultural practices flow through social networks in the world along partially different paths and across national structures and communities.
Author | : Rosemary Chapman |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2009-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0773575804 |
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Gabrielle Roy is one of the best-known figures of Québec literature, yet she spent much of the first thirty years of her life studying, working, and living in English. For Roy, as a member of Manitoba's francophone minority, bilingualism was a necessary strategy for survival and success. How did this bilingual and bicultural background help shape her work as a writer in French? The implications of her linguistic and cultural identity are explored in chapters looking at education, language, translation, and the representation of Canada's other minorities, from the immigrants in Western Canada to the Inuit of Ungava. What emerges is a new reading of Roy's work. Drawing on archival material, postcolonial theory, and translation studies, Between Languages and Cultures explores the traces and effects of Roy's intimate knowledge of English language and culture, challenging and augmenting the established view that her work is distinctly French-Canadian or Québécois.
Author | : Karel van Lerberghe |
Publisher | : Peeters Publishers |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9789042907195 |
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This volume contains 33 papers presented at the 42th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale held at the University of Leuven in July 1995. The main purpose of the conference on Languages and Cultures in Contact was to focus on contacts and exchanges between the various cultures in the Syro-Mesopotamian realm by re-evaluating the geographical limits of 'Mesopotamian' civilization to include the Upper- and Middle-Euphrates regions of Syria. These proceedings cover areas of research in the fields of philology, archaeology and history alike. They bring together essays on a great number of topics, including comparative linguistics, the spread of literacy and administrative practices, cultural exchanges, diffusion and acculturation. Finally the book contains reports on current excavations and surveys in the Ancient Near East.
Author | : Claire Kramsch |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1998-08-20 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780194372145 |
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This work investigates the close relationship between language and culture. It explains key concepts such as social context and cultural authenticity, using insights from fields which includes linguistics, sociology, and anthropology.
Author | : Anna Wierzbicka |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1999-11-18 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780521599719 |
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This fascinating book explores the bodily expression of emotion in worldwide and culture-specific contexts.
Author | : Bernardo M. Ferdman |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1994-03-08 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780791418161 |
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This book examines the linkage between literacy and linguistic diversity, embedding them in their social and cultural contexts. It illustrates that a more complete understanding of literacy among diverse populations and in multicultural societies requires attention to issues of literacy per se as well as to improving an educational process that has relevance beyond members of majority cultures and linguistic groups. The focus of the book is on the social and cultural contexts in which literacy develops and is enacted, with an emphasis on the North American situation. Educators and researchers are discovering that cognitive approaches, while very valuable, are insufficient by themselves to answer important questions about literacy in heterogeneous societies. By considering the implications of family, school, culture, society, and nation for literary processes, the book answers the following questions. In a multi-ethnic context, what does it mean to be literate? What are the processes involved in becoming and being literate in a second language? In what ways is literacy in a second language similar and in what ways is it different from mother-tongue literacy? What factors must be understood to better describe and facilitate literacy acquisition among members of ethnic and linguistic minorities? What are some current approaches that are being used to accomplish this? These are vital questions for researchers and educators in a world that has a large number of immigrants, a variety of multi-ethnic and multi-lingual societies, and an increasing degree of multinational activity. Beyond addressing applied concerns, attending to these questions can provide new insights into basic aspects of literacy.
Author | : Carol Lynn Moder |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027230782 |
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This volume seeks to answers such questions as: how is conscious experience translated into discourse? How are foregrounding and backgrounding accomplished? What is the function of features like lexical choice and referential choice? And many more.
Author | : Edgar C. Polomé |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110126716 |
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TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.