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Book Translation and Meaning

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marcel Thelen
  • Publisher : Lodz Studies in Language
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9783631663905
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Translation and Meaning written by Marcel Thelen and published by Lodz Studies in Language. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new and innovative ideas on the didactics of translation and interpreting. They include assessment methods and criteria, assessment of competences, graduate employability, placements, skills labs, the perceived skills gap between training and profession, the teaching of terminology, and curriculum design.

Book In Other Words

Download or read book In Other Words written by Deborah Schiffrin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-09 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What we say always consists of prior words, structures and meanings that are combined in new ways and re-used in new contexts for new listeners. In this book, Deborah Schiffrin looks at two important tasks of language - presenting 'who' we are talking about (the referent) and 'what happened' to them (their actions and attributes) in a narrative - and explores how this presentation alters in relation to emergent forms and meanings. Drawing on examples from both face-to-face talk and public discourse, she analyses a variety of repairs, reformulations of referents, and retellings of narratives, ranging from word-level repairs within a single turn-at-talk, to life story narratives told years apart. Bringing together work from conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, cognitive semantics, pragmatics, and variation analysis, In Other Words will be invaluable for scholars wishing to understand the many different factors that underlie the shaping and re-shaping of discourse over time, place and person.

Book Motivation in War

Download or read book Motivation in War written by Ilya Berkovich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the motivation of ordinary soldiers to enlist, serve and fight in the armies of eighteenth-century Europe.

Book Glossary on Migration

    Book Details:
  • Author : International Organization for Migration
  • Publisher : UN
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 82 pages

Download or read book Glossary on Migration written by International Organization for Migration and published by UN. This book was released on 2004 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is increasingly acknowledged that migration issues need a co-ordinated approach, with discussions being undertaken at bilateral levels, as well as at regional and global levels. This publication seeks to establish a common understanding about the terms and concepts used in the field of migration, in order to establish a useful tool to help further international cooperation on this topic.

Book The Swiss and Their Neighbours  1460 1560

Download or read book The Swiss and Their Neighbours 1460 1560 written by Tom Scott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of early-modern Europe was built up gradually by a series of leagues and alliances, and this volume seeks to demonstrate that the Swiss Confederation was one such composite polity, surviving until the end of the ancien regime by accommodating and absorbing internal conflicts through a sense of common identity and mutual obligation.

Book Languages in Contact

Download or read book Languages in Contact written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume includes papers that were presented at the conference Languages in Contact at the University of Groningen (25-26 November 1999). The conference was held to celebrate the University of St. Petersburg’s award of an honorary doctorate to Tjeerd de Graaf of Groningen. In general, the issues discussed in the articles involve pidgins and creoles, minorities and their languages, Diaspora situations, Sprachbund phenomena, extralinguistic correlates of variety in contact situations, problems of endangered languages and the typology of these languages. Special attention is paid to contact phenomena between languages of the Russian Empire / USSR / Russian Federation, their survival and the influence of Russian.

Book Harmonies of Political Economy

Download or read book Harmonies of Political Economy written by Frédéric Bastiat and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keine Angaben

Book Narrative and Genre

Download or read book Narrative and Genre written by Mary Chamberlain and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative and Genre presents exciting new debates in an emerging field, where international academics from a plethora of disciplines examine the conventions and restrictions of language and genre and how they influence our communication.

Book Entre Sonderfall et int  gration   les partis politiques suisses    l   preuve de l Europe  1989 2014

Download or read book Entre Sonderfall et int gration les partis politiques suisses l preuve de l Europe 1989 2014 written by Blaise Fontanellaz and published by Academia. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage permet d'appréhender la relation entre la Suisse et l'Union européenne sous un jour nouveau. Couvrant une période significative (1989-2014), ce livre reconstitue les positionnements des partis politiques suisses sur l'UE, ces derniers utilisant une argumentation oscillant entre nationalisme et universalisme. La compréhension de ces débats politiques sera utile à toute personne souhaitant saisir cette relation parfois tumultueuse.

Book American Military Technology

Download or read book American Military Technology written by Barton C. Hacker and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of American engineering and science has affected military technology, organization, and practice from the colonial era to the present day—even as military concerns have influenced, and often funded, domestic engineering programs and scientific development. American Military Technology traces the interplay of technology and science with the armed forces of the United States in terms of what Hacker and Vining view as epochs: 1840–1865, the introduction of modern small arms, steam power, and technology, science, and medicine; 1900–1914, the naval arms race, torpedoes and submarines, and the signal corps and the airplane; and 1965–1971, McNamara's Pentagon, technology in Vietnam, guided missiles, and smart bombs. The book is an excellent springboard for understanding the complex relationship of science, technology, and war in American history.

Book Sociolinguistics

Download or read book Sociolinguistics written by J. B. Pride and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1972 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a selection of articles covering the main areas of contemporary sociolinguistics. It pays particular attention to the concepts of multigualism, language standardization, dialectal and stylistic variation, and the acquisition of what Hymes and others have called "communicative competence." -- Cover.

Book Cognitive Psychology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lawrence W. Barsalou
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2014-02-25
  • ISBN : 1317783689
  • Pages : 425 pages

Download or read book Cognitive Psychology written by Lawrence W. Barsalou and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents the basic concepts of modern cognitive psychology in a succinct and accessible manner. Empirical results, theoretical developments, and current issues are woven around basic concepts to produce coherent accounts of research areas. Barsalou's primary goal is to equip readers with a conceptual vocabulary that acquaints them with the general approach of cognitive psychology and allows them to follow more technical discussions elsewhere. In meeting this goal, he discusses the traditional work central to modern thinking and reviews current work relevant to cognitive science. Besides focusing on research and theory in cognitive psychology, Barsalou also addresses its fundamental assumptions. Because the cognitive approach to psychology is somewhat subtle, often misunderstood, and sometimes controversial, it is essential for a text on cognitive psychology to address the assumptions that underlie it. Therefore, three of the eleven chapters address the "meta- assumptions" that govern research and theory in cognitive psychology. These meta-chapters provide a deeper understanding of the content areas and a clearer vision of what cognitive psychologists are trying to accomplish. The remaining eight "content" chapters cover the central topics in cognitive psychology. This book will be of value to a variety of audiences. Ideal for researchers in computer science, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, and neuroscience who wish to acquaint themselves with cognitive psychology, it may also be used as a text for courses in cognitive science and cognitive psychology. Lay readers who wish to learn about the cognitive approach to scientific psychology will also find the volume useful.

Book The Mind and its Stories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Colm Hogan
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2003-09-29
  • ISBN : 1139440705
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book The Mind and its Stories written by Patrick Colm Hogan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-29 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are profound, extensive, and surprising universals in literature, which are bound up with universals in emotion. Hogan maintains that debates over the cultural specificity of emotion are misdirected because they have ignored a vast body of data that bear directly on the way different cultures imagine and experience emotion - literature. This is the first empirically and cognitively based discussion of narrative universals. Professor Hogan argues that, to a remarkable degree, the stories people admire in different cultures follow a limited number of patterns and that these patterns are determined by cross-culturally constant ideas about emotion. In formulating his argument, Professor Hogan draws on his extensive reading in world literature, experimental research treating emotion and emotion concepts, and methodological principles from the contemporary linguistics and the philosophy of science. He concludes with a discussion of the relations among narrative, emotion concepts, and the biological and social components of emotion.

Book Balkan Syntax and Semantics

Download or read book Balkan Syntax and Semantics written by Olga Mišeska Tomi? and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with some syntactic and semantic aspects of the shared Balkan Sprachbund properties. In a comprehensive introductory chapter, Tomic offers an overview of the Balkan Sprachbund properties. Sobolev, displaying the areal distribution of 65 properties, argues for dialect cartography. Friedman, on the example of the evidentials, argues for typologically informed areal explanation of the Balkan properties. The other contributions analyze specific phenomena: polidefinite DPs in Greek and Aromanian (Campos and Stavrou), Balkan constructions in which datives combine with impersonal clitics or non-active morphology (Rivero), Balkan optatives (Ammann and Auwera), imperative force in the Balkan languages (Isac and Jakab), clitic placement in Greek imperatives (Boškovic), focused constituents in Romanian and Bulgarian (Hill), synthetic and analytic tenses in Romanian (D'Hulst, Coene and Avram), "purpose-like" modification in a number of Balkan languages (Bužarovska), Balkan modal existential “wh”-constructions (Grosu), child and adult strategies in interpreting empty subjects in Serbian/Croatian (Stojanovic and Marelj), conditional sentences in Judeo-Spanish (Montoliu and Auwera).

Book Language Contact and Grammatical Change

Download or read book Language Contact and Grammatical Change written by Bernd Heine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-27 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Book Europa Vasconica   Europa Semitica

Download or read book Europa Vasconica Europa Semitica written by Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the theory that the linguistic and cultural landscape of Europe north of the Alps and the Pyrenees was shaped in prehistoric times by the interaction of Indo-European speakers with speakers of languages related to Basque and to Semitic. These influences on the lexicon, grammar, and toponymy of the West Indo-European languages (with special focus on Germanic) are demonstrated in German and English research papers, provided here with summaries, commentaries, and a new introduction in English, and with general and etymological indexes.

Book The Reception of Bodin

Download or read book The Reception of Bodin written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Reception of Bodin an international and interdisciplinary team of seventeen scholars considers one of the most remarkable figures in European intellectual history, the sixteenth-century jurist and philosopher Jean Bodin, as a ‘prismatic agent’ in the transmission of ideas. The subject is approached in the light of reception theory coupled with critical evaluation of key texts as well as features of Bodin’s own career. Bodin is treated as recipient of knowledge gleaned from multifarious sources, and his readers as receivers responding diversely to his work in various contexts and from various standpoints. The volume provides searching insights both into Bodin’s mental world and into processes that served to cross-fertilise European intellectual life from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Contributors include Ann Blair, Harald E. Braun, Glenn Burgess, Peter Burke, Vittor Ivo Comparato, Marie-Dominique Couzinet, Luc Foisneau, Robert von Friedeburg, Mark Greengrass, Virginia Krause, Johannes Machielsen, Christian Martin, Sara Miglietti, Diego Quaglioni, Jonathan Schüz, Michaela Valente.