Contacts and Contrasts in Cultures and Languages
Title | Contacts and Contrasts in Cultures and Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2019-02-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3030049817 |
This volume provides descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena as well as processes that emerge at the interface of languages and cultures in the context of contrastive and contact linguistics and media discourse. Different contexts are explored with rich empirical findings and authentic exemplifying materials. The book includes fifteen papers, divided into three parts. Part 1 addresses conceptual reflection on languages and cultures in contact and contrast, while Part 2 focuses on contact linguistics and borrowing. Part 3 discusses cultural and linguistic aspects of media discourses.
Language and Culture
Title | Language and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Risager |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1853598585 |
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.
Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures
Title | Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Stanca M?da |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2012-11-19 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027273111 |
Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures aims at developing an integrative linguistic perspective on talk at work. Professional communication allows multi- and interdisciplinary explorations on how workplace relationships and mechanisms are influenced by the use of certain linguistic patterns. The book approaches the topic of professional communication from multiple levels, providing critical, valuable insights into the dynamics of creating and maintaining professional relationships at work.After outlining the theoretical and analytical frameworks, the eleven chapters uncover and develop integrative themes that emerge within the three parts of the book: Dialogue and identity in professional settings, Functions and strategies in professional communication and Specific issues in professional communication. Scholars and students who are interested in research based on authentic data and case studies of efficient communication at work, as well as those teaching courses on interpersonal communication, discourse analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics will find useful insights in this volume.
Between Languages and Cultures
Title | Between Languages and Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Rosemary Chapman |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2009-04-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0773575804 |
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.
Languages and Cultures
Title | Languages and Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Mohammad Ali Jazayery |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 813 |
Release | 2010-11-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110864355 |
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.
Bridging Languages and Cultures
Title | Bridging Languages and Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Guntars Dreijers |
Publisher | Frank & Timme GmbH |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2019-03-11 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3732904296 |
Translation Studies already face new tasks in order to take account of and to discuss the changing translation environment, in order to seek new approaches and tools for description, analysis and teaching activities. This volume of selected papers of the conference Bridging Languages and Cultures brings together current viewpoints in Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication; it provides both specific focus on certain aspects and developments and a more general overview of research landscape. Distinguished authors discuss translation of LSP texts, lexicological and lexicographic modules of bridging history and methodology of Translation Studies, aesthetic and interactional aspects of translation, and intercultural phenomena in the context of translation.
Discourse Across Languages and Cultures
Title | Discourse Across Languages and Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Lynn Moder |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789027230782 |
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.