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A collection of essays which represent the different strands of work being undertaken in the field of translation studies. The book reflects the shift in emphasis away from a more descriptive form of translation to the view that translation occupies a central position in the development of culture.

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Examines the issues of translating humour within a range of different literary traditions and across various languages.

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Examines the issues of translating humour within a range of different literary traditions and across various languages. This title analyses humour and translation in every day life, including jokes and cross-cultural humour, and looks at humour and translation in literature through the ages.

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Examines the intersection of humour and translation studies as found in the media on television, in film and in print.

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Covers key ideas in debates on the complex relationship between theory and practice in the field of translation studies. This book explores the relevance of translation theory to practice.

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Covers key ideas in debates on the complex relationship between theory and practice in the field of translation studies. This book explores the relevance of translation theory to practice.

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Presents a study on the issues surrounding the professionalization of the language-media sector, and its demands for highly trained employees with broader skills repertoires. This title is suitable for advanced students and researchers of translation studies.

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A study on the issues surrounding the increasing professionalization of the language-media sector, and its demands for ever more highly trained employees with broader skills repertoires. It is suitable for students and academics working and researching in the field.

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Focusing on specific case studies within the Italian, English and North American literary communities, spanning from 'authoritative' translations of poets by poets to the role of dialect poetry and anthologies of poetry, this book looks at the role of translation in the development of poetic languages and in the construction of poetic canons.

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This reference is a guide to major trends and developments in rhetoric and rhetorical theory during the last 100 years.

Included are alphabetically arranged entries for major and minor rhetoricians, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Wayne Booth, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Peter Elbow, and Linda Flower.

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Kuypers, King, and their contributors explore the conception of rhetoric of eleven key American rhetoricians through analyses of their life's work. In so doing, this work dispels the myth that the discipline of Speech Communication was spawned from a monolithic and rigid center that came to be called neo-Aristotelianism.

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Based on an introductory course on natural-language semantics, this book provides an introduction to type-logical grammar and the range of linguistic phenomena that can be handled in categorial grammar. It also contains work on categorial grammar and its application to natural-language semantics.

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Besides providing extensive support for David Perlmutter's hypothesis that unaccusativity is syntactically represented but semantically determined, this monograph contributes significantly to the development of a theory of lexical semantic representation and to the elucidation of the mapping from lexical semantics to syntax.

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In this extensive study of ethnic labeling in the United States' popular speech and usage, Irving Lewis Allen explores the major traditional themes behind the making of ethnic slurs.

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While some contributors provide primarily descriptive examinations of presumed gender differences, others seek to critique or deconstruct these supposed meanings associated with gender and power relationships.

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While some contributors provide primarily descriptive examinations of presumed gender differences, others seek to critique or deconstruct these supposed meanings associated with gender and power relationships.