Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - General

The Psychology of Meditation: Research and Practice explores the practice of meditation and mindfulness and presents...

Aimed at A-Level and beginning undergraduate students, Language and Gender:

• explores the relationship between language and our ideas about men and women
• challenges commonly expressed views on the subject of language and gender
• highlights the individual's role in the expression of gender stereotyping
• includes a range of text types as diverse as personal ads, wildlife documentary, literary fiction and classical music programmes
• includes a comprehensive glossary of terms.

The new edition has been updated and revised and...

At a time increasingly dominated by globalization, migration, and the clash between supranational and ultranational ideologies, the relationship between language and borders has become more complicated and, in many ways, more consequential than ever. This book shows how concepts of 'language' and 'multilingualism' look different when viewed from Belize, Lagos, or London, and asks how ideas about literature and literary form must be remade in a contemporary cultural marketplace that is both linguistically diverse and interconnected, even as it remains profoundly unequal. Bringing together...

"Translation is like a reverse-engineering process--whereby, say, we might take apart a clock made of metal parts in order to build a functioning replica made entirely of plastic. Our final product will not look the same as the original clock, and it would be impossible to simply copy the designs of its inner workings, because plastic and metals have very different properties. For example, we cannot make small plastic springs or very thin gears of plastic. But these changes do not matter; the only thing that matters is that our replica will tell the time correctly."--From the...

"Translation is like a reverse-engineering process--whereby, say, we might take apart a clock made of metal parts in order to build a functioning replica made entirely of plastic. Our final product will not look the same as the original clock, and it would be impossible to simply copy the designs of its inner workings, because plastic and metals have very different properties. For example, we cannot make small plastic springs or very thin gears of plastic. But these changes do not matter; the only thing that matters is that our replica will tell the time correctly."--From the...