Communication Across Cultures : The Linguistics of Texts in Translation (Expanded and Revised Edition) /: The Linguistics of Texts in Translation (Expanded and Revised Edition). (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Prof. Basil Hatim.
• Authors: Prof, Hatim, Basil, Prof
• Contents: Preface (R R K Hartmann); A New Introduction - Textual Rhetoric: The Missing Dimension; Translator decision-making informed by textual competence; Deeper text processing; The myth of the single register: a discourse perspective on linguistic variation; Argumentation: a contrastive text-type perspective; A model of argumentation from Arabic Rhetoric; Globalization, academic writing, translation: a new perspective on culture; Cultures within cultures: commodification discourse; On purpose; The status of the paragraph as a unit of text structure; Signalling background information in expository texts; On the interface between structure and texture: the textual progression of Themes and Rhemes; A text-type solution to a problem of texture: translating Cataphora; Degree of explicitness as a feature of texture; Emotiveness and its linguistic realization in texts; Translating direct and indirect speech and the dynamics of news reporting; A text-type perspective on the pragmatics of politeness; Cultures in contact and what people do with their texts: an applied- linguistic perspective; The discourse of alienation and its linguistic expression in a modern Arabic novella; The translation of irony: a discourse focus on Arabic; The other texts: implications for liaison Interpreting; References; Resources; Glossary of Terms in Contrastive Text Linguistics and Translation
• Edition: 2nd
• Publisher Details: University of Exeter Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (305 pages)
• Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Semantics; Discourse analysis; Literary theory
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781905816330; 1905816332
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