To Honor Roman Jakobson

To Honor Roman Jakobson
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Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Total Pages : 812
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ISBN-10 : 3110995239
ISBN-13 : 9783110995237
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Synopsis To Honor Roman Jakobson by : De Gruyter

A Relevance-Theoretic Approach to Decision-Making in Subtitling

A Relevance-Theoretic Approach to Decision-Making in Subtitling
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 114
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ISBN-10 : 9783030518035
ISBN-13 : 3030518035
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Synopsis A Relevance-Theoretic Approach to Decision-Making in Subtitling by : Łukasz Bogucki

This book aims to investigate the process of decision-making in subtitling of feature films and entertainment series. The author uses Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson,1986) to argue that the technical, linguistic and translational constraints at work in subtitling result in a curtailed target text, and illustrates this argument by invoking examples drawn from the English-Polish subtitles of films and television series available through the subscription service Netflix. After introducing the current state of research on audiovisual translation within and outside the framework of translation studies, he presents the core concepts underpinning Relevance Theory and explains how it can be used to construct a model of the process of subtitling. This book will be of interest to students and scholars working in the fields of translation studies, audiovisual translation studies, and communication studies.

Number in the World's Languages

Number in the World's Languages
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 822
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ISBN-10 : 9783110619546
ISBN-13 : 3110619547
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Synopsis Number in the World's Languages by : Paolo Acquaviva

The strong development in research on grammatical number in recent years has created a need for a unified perspective. The different frameworks, the ramifications of the theoretical questions, and the diversity of phenomena across typological systems, make this a significant challenge. This book addresses the challenge with a series of in-depth analyses of number across a typologically diverse sample, unified by a common set of descriptive and analytic questions from a semantic, morphological, syntactic, and discourse perspective. Each case study is devoted to a single language, or in a few cases to a language group. They are written by specialists who can rely on first-hand data or on material of difficult access, and can place the phenomena in the context of the respective system. The studies are preceded and concluded by critical overviews which frame the discussion and identify the main results and open questions. With specialist chapters breaking new ground, this book will help number specialists relate their results to other theoretical and empirical domains, and it will provide a reliable guide to all linguists and other researchers interested in number.

Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2018

Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2018
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages : 462
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ISBN-10 : 9783985540181
ISBN-13 : 3985540187
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2018 by : Andreas Blümel

Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2018 offers a selection of articles that were prepared on the basis of talks presented at the conference Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 13) or at the parallel Workshop on the Semantics of Noun Phrases, which were held on December 5–7, 2018, at the University of Göttingen. The volume covers a wide array of topics, such as situation relativization with adverbial clauses (causation, concession, counterfactuality, condition, and purpose), clause-embedding by means of a correlate, agreeing vs. transitive ‘need’ constructions, clitic doubling, affixation and aspect, evidentiality and mirativity, pragmatics coming with the particle li, uniqueness, definiteness, maximal interpretation (exhaustivity), kinds and subkinds, bare nominals, multiple determination, quantification, demonstratives, possessives, complex measure nouns, and the NP/DP parameter. The set of object languages comprises Russian, Czech, Polish, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, and Torlak Serbian. The numerous topics addressed demonstrate the importance of Slavic linguistics. The original analyses prove that substantial progress has been made in major fields of research.

The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Interpreting and Bilingualism

The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Interpreting and Bilingualism
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 662
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ISBN-10 : 9781000805956
ISBN-13 : 1000805956
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Interpreting and Bilingualism by : Aline Ferreira

Translation and interpreting can be seen as two special sub-types of bilingual communication. The field of bilingualism—from developmental, cognitive, and neuroscientific perspectives—is highly relevant to Translation and Interpreting Studies. The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Interpreting and Bilingualism is the first handbook to bring together the related, yet disconnected, fields of bilingualism and translation and interpreting studies. Edited by leading scholars and authored by a wide range of established authorities from around the world, the Handbook is divided into six parts and encompasses theories and method, the development of translator and interpreter competence and cognitive, neuroscientific and social aspects. This is the essential guide to bilingualism for advanced students and researchers of Translation and Interpreting studies and key reading on translation and interpreting for those studying and researching bilingualism.

Freudianism: A Marxist Critique

Freudianism: A Marxist Critique
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Publisher : Elsevier
Total Pages : 174
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ISBN-10 : 9781483296791
ISBN-13 : 1483296792
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Freudianism: A Marxist Critique by : COLE

FREUDIANISM:A MARXIST CRITIQUE

Freudianism

Freudianism
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781781680407
ISBN-13 : 178168040X
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Freudianism by : Valentin Voloshinov

Freudianism is a major icon in the history of ideas, independently rich and suggestive today both for psychoanalysis and for theories of language. It offers critical insights whose recognition demands a change in the manner in which the fundamental principles of both psychoanalysis and linguistic theory are understood. Volosinov went to the root of Freud’s theory adn method, arguing that what is for him the central concept of psychoanalysis, “the unconscious,” was a fiction. He argued that the phenomena that were taken by Freud as evidence for “the unconscious” constituted instead an aspect of “the conscious,” albeit one with a person’s “official conscious.” For Volosinov, “the conscious” was a monologue, a use of language, “inner speech” as he called it. As such, the conscious participated in all of the properties of language, particularly, for Volosinov, its social essence. This type of argumentation stood behind Volosinov’s charge that Freudianism presented humans in an inherently false, individualistic, asocial, and ahistorical setting.