Books from John Benjamins Publishing Company
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To Hell and Back: An anthology of Dante's Inferno in English translation (1782–2017)
By Tim Smith, Marco SonzogniDante Alighieri (1265–1321) maintained that translation destroys the harmony of poetry. Yet his Commedia has been translated into English time and again over the last two-and-a-bit centuries. At last count,...
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Palenquero and Spanish in Contact: Exploring the interface
By John M. Lipski[In the Palenque school, the teachers did not know that the way that the children spoke during their games and other activities was not “bad Spanish” but rather their native language] (Friedemann & Patiño Rosselli 1983:17).
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Metroethnicity, Naming and Mocknolect: New horizons in Japanese sociolinguistics
By John C. MaherThe acquisition of /r/ and /l/ by Japanese learners of English: Evidence that speech production can precede speech perception. Applied Psycholinguistics, 3, 243–261. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716400001417 Shigeko, O., ...
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The Politics of Translating Sound Motifs in African Fiction
By Laurence Jay-Rayon Ibrahim AiboIn the introduction to The Flight of Icarus (1973), her translation of Queneau's Le vol d'Icare, Wright suggests that “with Queneau, every word is there for a purpose” (1973: 7) all the while admitting the challenge they pose in ...
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Profiling Discourse Participants: Forms and functions in Spanish conversation and debates
By Barbara De CockIn Conceptualizations and Mental Processing in Language, ed. by Richard Geiger, and Brygida A. Rudzka-Ostyn, 649–78. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Langacker, Ronald W. 1987. Foundations ofCognitive Grammar.
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Pragmatics of Tense and Time in News: From canonical headlines to online news texts
By Jan ChovanecAs McCarthy and Carter observe, [t]he historical present operates as one of Labov's 'internal evaluation' devices, heightening the drama of events and focusing on particularly significant points in the story. It is a perfectly coherent ...
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The Discourse of Online Sportscasting: Constructing meaning and interaction in live text commentary
By Jan Chovanec2, ed. by Ruqaiya Hasan, Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen, and Jonathan Webster, 505–561. London: Equinox. McCarthy, Brigid. 2014. “A Sports Journalism of their Own: An Investigation into the Motivations, Behaviours, and Media Attitudes ...
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Introduction to Discourse Studies: New edition
By Christoph Schubert, Jan RenkemaThe most important publications of that decade and around the turn of the century include the following: McCarthy (1991) is geared towards language teachers; Mann and Thompson (1992) introduces discourse description on the basis of a ...
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Korean English: A corpus-driven study of a new English
By Glenn Hadikin(17 April 2010). Garside, R. 1987. The CLAWS word-tagging system. In The Computational Analysis ofEnglish: A Corpus-based Approach, R. Garside, G. Leech & G. Sampson ...
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The Role of Functions in Syntax: A unified approach to language theory, description, and typology
By Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Erin Shay... please see http://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl Editors Spike Gildea University of Oregon Editorial Board Balthasar Bickel Zurich Bernard Comrie Leipzig / Santa Barbara Denis Creissels Lyon William Croft Albuquerque Nicholas Evans ...
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Sign Language in Papua New Guinea: A primary sign language from the Upper Lagaip Valley, Enga Province
By Adam KendonProposals grounded in cognitive-functional approaches have since been advanced (Lepic & Occhino, 2018; Wilcox & Occhino, 2016). While adopting a usage based perspective, the role of the observer is still, I feel, not fully appreciated.
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Diversions of Galway: Papers on the History of Linguistics from ICHoLS V, Galway, Ireland, 1-6 September 1990
By Anders AhlqvistThis volume contains a selection of papers from the Fifth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, dealing with subjects ranging from the classical period till the 20th century.
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How to Do Corpus Pragmatics on Pragmatically Annotated Data: Speech acts and beyond
By Martin WeisserCarstensen, Kai-Uwe, Ebert, Christian, Endriss, Cornelia, Jekat, Susanne, Klabunde, Ralf & Langer, Hagen (eds). 2004. Computerlinguistik und Sprachtechnologie: Eine Einführung, 2nd edn. Heidelberg: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag.
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Vincent Van Gogh: Christianity Versus Nature
By Tsukasa KōderaThis book analyzes the deeper meaning of recurring themes in van Gogh's oeuvre, such as the sower, the sun and the sunflower, against the religious background of his time.
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The Mythology of Vincent Van Gogh
By Dr Tsukasa Kō DeraThe wealth of illustration and documentation, combined with its wide scope and the critical assessment of the many aspects of the mythology of Vincent van Gogh make this book an essential source for art historians, libraries, museums, art ...
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The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches : Revised and Enlarged Edition of the Catalogue Raisonné of the Works...
By Jan HulskerAs a result, he presents a well-rounded, intimate portrait of the artist at work. This new edition includes all of Van Gogh's artistic works - paintings, drawings, and graphic works, as well as the sketches from his letters.
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Anti-racist Discourse on Muslims in the Australian Parliament
By Jennifer E. ChengIn Extract 4, MP Lindsay Tanner from the ALP repeats the pronoun 'their' in front of 'religion', 'race' and 'ethnicity' in the following: The Howard government will be condemned by history for its chipping away at the underlying notion ...
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Conference Interpreting – A Trainer’s Guide
By Robin Setton, Andrew DawrantRusso, Mariachiara and Salvador Pippa. 2004. Aptitude to interpreting: Preliminary results of a testing methodology based on paraphrase. Meta 49 (2): 409–432. doi:10.7202/009367ar Russo, Mariachiara. 2011. Aptitude testing over the ...
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An Indo-European Comparative Dictionary
By Stuart Edward MannAn Indo-European Comparative Dictionary
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Semantic Structure in English
By Jim FeistIn example (3) above, the ellipsis of the Subject marks it as Topic and creates continuity (“We deployed the panels and [...] sank the spikes and [...] sat it out”). In unmarked syntax, the marking of Topic is much less obvious.