10th Conference on British and American Studies - Crossing Boundaries : Approaches to the Contemporary Multicultural Discourse.: Approaches to the Contemporary Multicultural Discourse. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Burada, Marinela; Tatu, Oana
• Contents: Table of contents; chapter i; introduction; diagnostic features in four easterncaribbean english-lexified creoles; on some features of the vocalic systemof kenyan english; degrees of nouninessof romanian cardinals; implicative verbs and their subjunctivecomplements in romanian; positive polarity items in romanian; a semic analysis of terms denotingphysical defects in romanian; the dictionary review in romanian; chapter ii; introduction; 'grounded theory'; role-plays in teaching englishfor specific purposes; english for horticulture; semantic relationsin e-commerce terminology. Aspects of transfer in foreignlanguage acquisitionthe acquisition of dress and trapby romanian learners of english; reviewing a translationallearner corpus for naturalness; chapter iii; introduction; linguistic 'silence'in english and serbian; linguistic representationsof british and american cultural spacein g. b. shaw's the devil's disciple; have you seen the film?subtitling referencesto films and actors; the beauty of subtitlingand the beast in dubbing; cultural differences; representation of womenin english and romanian tabloids. From multiculturalismto interculturalismin three britishcontemporary novelsgraham swift's city, or the dark sideof civilisation and multiculturalism; constructing round femalevs. flat male characters; list of contributors; subject index.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (335 pages)
• Subjects: 420; Linguistics; Language and languages -- Congresses; Second language acquisition -- Congresses; Sociolinguistics -- Great Britain -- Congresses; Sociolinguistics -- United States -- Congresses; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General; Language and languages; Second language acquisition; Sociolinguistics; Literary studies: general; Applied linguistics for ELT; Great Britain; United States; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443863124; 1443863122
• Related ISBNs: 9781443853590
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Print version record.
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