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Educational perspectives on mediality and subjectivation : discourse, power a…
This open access book examines the complex relationship between education, media and power. Exploring the entanglement of education media and power structures, the contributions use various examples and case studies to demonstrate how subjectivation processes and digital structures interact with one another. The book asks which modes of subjectivation can be identified with current media cultur…
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- 10
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- 9783030843434
- Collation
- xiii; 136p;
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- -
- Call Number
- 371.33 EDU P
Discourse in translation
This book explores the discourse in and of translation within and across cultures and languages. From the macro aspects of translation as an inter- cultural project to actual analysis of textual ingredients that contribute to translation and interpreting as discourse, the ten chapters represent different explorations of ‘global’ theories of discourse and translation. Offering interrogations…
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- -
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- 9781315098791
- Collation
- xvii, 243 p.: ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 418.02 FAI d
Anthology of Arabic discourse on translation
This anthology brings the key writings on translation in Arabic in the pre-modern era, extending from the earliest times (sixth century CE) until the end of World War I, to a global English-speaking audience. The texts are arranged chronologically and organized by two historical periods: the Classical Period, and the Nahda Period. Each text is preceded by an introduction about the selected text…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781003247784
- Collation
- xiii, 399 p. : ill
- Series Title
- Translation Studies in Translation
- Call Number
- 492.7802 SHA a
Significance in language: a theory of semantics
This book offers a unique perspective on meaning in language, broadening the scope of existing understanding of meaning by introducing a comprehensive and cohesive account of meaning that draws on a wide range of linguistic approaches. The volume seeks to build up a complete picture of what meaning is, different types of meaning, and different ways of structuring the same meaning across myriad …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781003259381
- Collation
- vi, 330 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- Routledge Studies in Linguistics
- Call Number
- 420.143 FEI s
Words in space and time : a historical atlas of language politics in modern C…
With forty-two extensively annotated maps, this atlas offers novel insights into the history and mechanics of how Central Europe’s languages have been made, unmade, and deployed for political action. The innovative combination of linguistics, history, and cartography makes a wealth of hard-to-reach knowledge readily available to both specialist and general readers. It combines information on …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789633864180
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- xvii, 289 p. : ill.
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- -
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- 306.44943 KAM w
English and translation in the European Union : unity and multiplicity in the…
This book explores the growing tension between multilingualism and monolingualism in the European Union in the wake of Brexit, underpinned by the interplay between the rise of English as a lingua franca and the effacement of translations in EU institutions, bodies and agencies. English and Translation in the European Union draws on an interdisciplinary approach, highlighting insights from appli…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780429282812
- Collation
- x, 218 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
- Call Number
- 306.446094 LEA e
Accessible communication : a cross-country journey
Easy-to-Understand (E2U) text practices enable and facilitate accessible communication. E2U refers both to Plain and to Easy Language. These two powerful methods of language and content comprehension enhancement are illustrated through several examples in English, starting from the seminal role of the Anglophone world in promoting plain and lucid style. Originally implemented in written texts, …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783732991563
- Collation
- 177 p. : color, ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 410 PER a
Language and Slavery : A social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles
This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical context in which they developed. Drawing on a wealth of sources including little known historical texts, the author points out the relevance of European settlements prior to coloniza…
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- Vol. 52
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- 9789027265807
- Collation
- 463p. ; ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 409.883 JAC l
Engagement in medical research discourse: a multisemiotic approach to dialogi…
This book integrates insights from dialogic theory and systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to extend our understandings of engagement in medical research articles, going beyond notions of the role of verbal dialogue to encompass mathematical and visual semiotics and consider text not just as language but as multisemiosis. The volume begins by outlining the engagement framework and offering a …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781003041146
- Collation
- xi, 206 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- Routledge Studies in Multimodality
- Call Number
- 610.141 FRY e
Early greek alphabetic writing : a linguistic approach
Despite the flourishing of epichoric studies on the Archaic Greek scripts in the 1960s, embodied by archaeologists Lilian Hamilton Jeffery and Margherita Guarducci, most scholarship on early alphabetic writing in Greece has focused on questions around the origin of ‘the Greek alphabet’ instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic times. …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781789257441
- Collation
- ix, 139 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 481.1 AST e
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