Training the Translator
ISBN: 9789027216236 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book begins by investigating, through the use of think-aloud protocols, the mental processes of students when they translate. The creative and successful processes observed can be used directly for teaching purposes, while the unsuccessful ones can serve to find out where remedial training is needed. The book then goes on to discuss methods for improving a translator's competence. The strategies offered are based on the pragmatic and semantic analysis of texts from a functional point of view, and they include such practical matters as the use of dictionaries and the evaluation of...
This book begins by investigating, through the use of think-aloud protocols, the mental processes of students when they translate. The creative and su...
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202,00 zł |
Gangster Speak : A Dictionary of Criminal and Sexual Slang
ISBN: 9780753522851 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An Aladdin's cave of criminal slang as spoken in the UK, America and Australia. If you're scratching or set tripping, if you're viper mad or coming heavy, if the ming are on the wing and you've no idea what any of this means, then you need "Gangster Speak."
From the shocking to the ridiculous, "Gangster Speak "contains over 2,500 linguistic gems: Ghosting -- the practice of transferring a troublesome prisoner to another establishment during the night without warning Hobbit -- a prisoner who complies with or sucks up to the system Put on armour - layer oneself with magazines to... An Aladdin's cave of criminal slang as spoken in the UK, America and Australia. If you're scratching or set tripping, if you're viper mad or coming he...
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69,97 zł |
Trinidad and Tobago
ISBN: 9789027247155 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume describes the English and English Creole of Trinidad and Tobago. Sources from the early 19th through late 20th centuries are gathered from a wide range of materials: novels, editorials, advertisements, cartoons, proverbs, newspaper articles, plays, lyrics of traditional songs and calypsos, and oral interviews. Many of the older texts are now made easily accessible for the first time. The introduction includes descriptions of the historical background, the sound system, grammar and vocabulary, speech styles, social and linguistic interaction of Creole and English, and implications...
This volume describes the English and English Creole of Trinidad and Tobago. Sources from the early 19th through late 20th centuries are gathered from...
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195,26 zł |
New Introduction To Old Norse: Part II -- Reader
ISBN: 9780903521833 / Angielski / Miękka / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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61,24 zł |
C-ORAL-Rom Integrated Reference Corpora for Spoken Romance Languages
ISBN: 9789027222862 / Angielski / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The C-ORAL-ROM book and DVD provide a unique set of comparable corpora of spontaneous speech for the main Romance languages, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The corpora are accompanied by comparative linguistic studies, models and standard linguistic measures of spoken language variability. Each corpus is built to the same design using identical sampling techniques, and each corpus is presented in multimedia format, allowing simultaneous access to aligned acoustic and textual information. Texts are headed with information about provenance, participants, etc. and the...
The C-ORAL-ROM book and DVD provide a unique set of comparable corpora of spontaneous speech for the main Romance languages, French, Italian, P...
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680,04 zł |
The Forest for the Trees : An editor's advice to writers
ISBN: 9780230768260 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An indispensable insider's guide for writers
An indispensable insider's guide for writers
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80,75 zł |
From Space to Time A Cognitive Analysis of the Cora Locative System and Its Temporal Extensions
ISBN: 9789027223937 / Angielski / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eugene Casad s posthumous monograph is an in-depth study of the TIME IS SPACE metaphor in Cora an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in the state of Nayarit, Mexico within the framework of Ronald Langacker s Cognitive Grammar. The author provides an introduction to Cora speakers and their history, and traces the evolution of Cora locative expressions, comparing them with cognate or corresponding expressions in other Uto-Aztecan languages, e.g. Huichol, to reconstruct the development of Cora temporal meanings. Based on a meticulous analysis of synchronic and diachronic data, Casad postulates distinct...
Eugene Casad s posthumous monograph is an in-depth study of the TIME IS SPACE metaphor in Cora an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in the state of Nayarit,...
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538,65 zł |
Mongolian
ISBN: 9789027238207 / Angielski / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mongolian is the principal language spoken by some five million ethnic Mongols living in Outer and Inner Mongolia, as well as in adjacent parts of Russia and China. The spoken language is divided into a number of mutually intelligible dialects, while for writing two separate written languages are used: Cyrillic Khalkha in Outer Mongolia (the Republic of Mongolia) and Written Mongol in Inner Mongolia (P. R. China). In this grammatical description, the focus is on the standard varieties of the spoken language, as used in broadcasting, education, and everyday casual speech. The dialectology of...
Mongolian is the principal language spoken by some five million ethnic Mongols living in Outer and Inner Mongolia, as well as in adjacent parts of Rus...
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619,45 zł |
Relative Clauses in Time and Space A Case Study in the Methods of Diachronic Typology
ISBN: 9789027206824 / Angielski / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a comprehensive survey of historically attested relative clause constructions from a diachronic typological perspective. Systematic integration of historical data and a typological approach demonstrates how typology and historical linguistics can each benefit from attention to the other. The diachronic behaviour of relative clauses is mapped across a broad range of genetically and geographically diverse languages. Central to the discussion is the strength of evidence for what have previously been claimed to be natural or even universal pathways of change. While many...
This book presents a comprehensive survey of historically attested relative clause constructions from a diachronic typological perspective. Systematic...
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538,65 zł |
Studio 3 rouge Workbook for Pack (11-14 French)
ISBN: 9780435030735 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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30,28 zł |