Download or read book Translation and Lexicography written by Mary Snell-Hornby and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Translation and Lexicography" includes a selection of papers presented at the 1987 European Lexicographers' Conference (EURALEX). The volume gives a comprehensive impression of new developments in the making and use of dictionaries for translation purposes, providing practical and theoretical approaches, general and in-depth studies.

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Download or read book Library of Congress Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.

Download or read book A Beowulf Handbook written by Robert E. Bjork and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most revered work composed in Old English,Beowulfis one of the landmarks of European literature. This handbook supplies a wealth of insights into all major aspects of this wondrous poem and its scholarly tradition. Each chapter provides a history of the scholarly interest in a particular topic, a synthesis of present knowledge and opinion, and an analysis of scholarly work that remains to be done. Written to accommodate the needs of a broad audience,A Beowulf Handbookwill be of value to nonspecialists who wish simply to read and enjoy Beowulf and to scholars at work on their own research. In its clear and comprehensive treatment of the poem and its scholarship, this book will prove an indispensable guide to readers and specialists for many years to come.

Download or read book Lexicography written by Robert Ilson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Meaning and Lexicography written by Jerzy Tomaszczyk and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While lexicology, lexical semantics, and lexicography all share an interest in lexical items, they often tend to be regarded as three separate albeit interrelated fields. Indeed, the extent to which the interrelationship is recognized and taken into account in lexicographic practice is the moot point. The conference which produced the papers offered in this volume was designed to bring their practioners together and thus gives an impetus to closer cooperation among them, It is the editors' conviction that the practical activity of lexicography should learn more from its sister fields. People working in lexicography, lexical semantics, etc. may find some of the insights arrived at in the more practically oriented descriptions pertinent and useful.

Download or read book English Russian Russian English Dictionary written by Kenneth Katzner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1994-12-07 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on American rather than British English, this is among the first Russian dictionaries revised for the post-Soviet era. Includes new political terminology, new Russian institutions, new countries and republics and new city names. Contains 26,000 entries in the English-Russian section and 40,000 words in the Russian-English section. Irregularities in Russian declensions and conjugations appear at the beginning of each entry.

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Download or read book In Other Words written by Ellen Bialystok and published by . This book was released on 1994-11-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the reasons why it is often difficult to learn a second language and explains how language acquisition can be a process of self-discovery.

Download or read book Lexicography in the Borderland between Knowledge and Non Knowledge written by Sven Tarp and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains a state-of-the-art summary of the theoretical discussions within the field of lexicography during the last decades. On this basis it presents and argues for a new general theory, called the function theory. It goes on to develop this theory in one single field, i.e. learners lexicography where it both formulates the basic elements of a general theory for learners’ dictionaries as well as a number of specific theories for special subfields such as selection, meaning, semantic relations, morphology, syntactic properties and word combinations. It contains a big number of examples extracted from existing dictionaries which are discussed from the point of view of the theories formulated.

Download or read book Scientific and Humanistic Dimensions of Language written by Kurt R. Jankowsky and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of papers on: Language teaching; Bilingualism; Language testing; Contrastive analysis; Language acquisition and performance; Language, thought, and meaning;Linguistic and literary analysis; Lexical and terminological studies; Language policy and language planning.

Download or read book The Oxford English Russian Dictionary written by Paul Stephen Falla and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended primarily for English-speaking users, The Oxford English-Russian Dictionary features 92,000 English words, phrases, and vocabulary items, and 148,000 translations. Prepared with the aid of native Russian speakers, the dictionary focuses on the correct translation of colloquial and idiomatic language, as well as providing glosses on English words to ensure selection of the right Russian equivalents. It also includes familiar or important Americanisms and a listing of personal and geographical names. This outstanding reference will be an invaluable reference source for any student of the Russian language.

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Download or read book Gabriella s Return written by Patricia I I Catuto and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriella’s Return is a story about Gabriella Verducci and Marco Marino who were childhood sweethearts, Gabriella met Marco when she was twelve and made a bread delivery to his parent’s Restaurant from her parent’s Bakery. They became very good friends working in the same neighborhood called “Little Italy” where both their parent’s owned their businesses. This was an area in Connecticut of a two mile strip of Italian Businesses where Generations of Italians had settled in the 1800’s and families continued for generations after. These were all families who took care of one another so their children all grew up in a loving family community. Gabriella and Marco went all through school together and planned to get married after Marco finished Law School. Gabriella and Marco had been planning their wedding almost since they had met, and the night of their rehearsal dinner had finally arrived. Marco was driving in from New York where he had just gotten a job as an attorney at a Law Firm there. The weather was terribly foggy and rainy but Marco had driven this road many times before over the years. This time Marco would not make it home to his rehearsal dinner, so the marriage that they both had been waiting for since they were very young would never happen. Someone was making sure Marco never made it off that road, his car was hit from behind and driven off the road into the ravine. Now Gabriella and Marco would not get the life together that they had planned and Marco would never get to see his unborn daughter Gia. Gabriella would now have to raise their daughter alone, knowing someone had killed Marco on purpose, She may never know who or why. Did that mean that Gabriella and her child were in danger from this person? At this time all Gabriella could think about was getting away from the tragedy and memories. Everything in Gabriella’s life as she had known it had changed and not for the better.

Download or read book Bilingual Lexicography from a Communicative Perspective written by Heming Yong and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stimulating new book, as the premier work introducing bilingual lexicography from a communicative perspective, is launched to represent original thinking and innovative theorization in the field of bilingual lexicography. It treats the bilingual dictionary as a system of intercultural communication and bilingual dictionary making as a dynamic process realized by sets of choices, characterizing the overall nature of the dictionary. It examines the dictionary and dictionary making by using a model of lexicography which stresses the three-way relationship of compiler, dictionary context and user and incorporates them into a unified coherent framework. Throughout the study, special focus is on English and Chinese bilingual lexicography. It will serve not only as a valuable guide to those interested in dictionary compilation and theoretical inquiries but also as a textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in bilingual lexicography.