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  • The Politics of Dubbing

    Film Censorship and State Intervention in the Translation of Foreign Cinema in Fascist Italy

    by Carla Mereu Keating ...
    Series Book 20 - New Trends in Translation Studies
    During the late 1920s and the 1930s, the Italian government sought various commercial and politically oriented solutions to cope with the advent of new sound technologies in cinema. The translation of foreign-language films became a recurrent topic of ongoing debates surrounding the use of the Italian language, the rebirth of the national film industry and cinema’s mass popularity.Through the ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

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  • Language, Identity and Urban Space

    The Language Use of Latin American Migrants

    by Tabea Salzmann ...
    Series Book 11 - Sprache - Identitaet - Kultur
    Migration as a process has achieved increasing attention in the context of nation-states and globalisation. In linguistics the field of language contact is particularly associated with this phenomenon. This book investigates the connection between language usage, migration, space, in particular urban space, and the constitution of cultural identity. Two corpora of Andean migrants’ Spanish ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

  • Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns in English and Mandarin Chinese

    A Contrastive Study

    by Lin Wang ...
    Series Book 469 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
    The book is a study on intensifiers and reflexive pronouns between two languages (English and Mandarin Chinese) and the first one drawing a complete picture in this domain. It provides the full uses of self, zìjĭ and běnrén. In the case of běnrén, here for the first time the full use of this pronoun in Mandarin Chinese is analysed. It is also the first book that uses contrastive study to talk ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Vox & Silentium

    Études de linguistique et littérature romanes – Studi di linguistica e letteratura romanza – Estudios de lingueística y literatura románicas

    Edited by Gina Maria Schneider, Maria Chiara Janner, Bénédicte Élie ...
    Voix et silence se considèrent traditionnellement comme deux phénomènes opposés, s’excluant l’un l’autre. Les contributions contenues dans ce volume se proposent de dépasser une telle conception, en se centrant non seulement sur la valeur et les fonctions que les deux concepts peuvent recouvrir, mais aussi sur la relation complexe qui existe entre eux en linguistique et en littérature. Outre les ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Cognitive Explorations into Metaphor and Metonymy

    Edited by Frank Polzenhagen, Zoltan Kövecses, Stefanie Vogelbacher, Sonja Kleinke ...
    This volume presents selected contributions to an annual symposium on metaphor and metonymy held at the English Department of Heidelberg University. It brings together papers by lecturers, PhD students and graduates from three universities – Heidelberg University, Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, and the University of East Anglia in Norwich. The contributions illustrate the plurality of ... Read more

    $113.99 CAD

  • How English Became the Global Language

    by D. Northrup ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In this book, the first written about the globalization of the English language by a professional historian, the exploration of English's global ascendancy receives its proper historical due. This brief, accessible volume breaks new ground in its organization, emphasis on causation, and conclusions. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Theory of Descriptions

    Russell and the Philosophy of Language

    by G. Stevens ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The book combines a historical and philosophical study of Russell's theory of descriptions. It defends, develops and extends the theory as a contribution to natural language semantics while also arguing for a reassessment of the important of linguistic inquiry to Russell's philosophical project. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Essays and Studies in Middle English

    9th International Conference on Middle English, Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław, 2015

    Edited by Jacek Fisiak, Magdalena Bator, Marta Sylwanowicz ...
    Series Book 49 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
    This volume is a selection of papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Middle English held at Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna (Philological School of Higher Education) in Wrocław, Poland, from April 30 to May 3, 2015. The contributors cover a wide range of topics in the area of language and literature. The linguistic papers constitute the majority of contributions and focus on problems ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • The Evolution of Verse Structure in Old and Middle English Poetry

    From the Earliest Alliterative Poems to Iambic Pentameter

    by Geoffrey Russom ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    In this fascinating study, Geoffrey Russom traces the evolution of the major English poetic traditions by reference to the evolution of the English language, and considers how verse forms are born, how they evolve, and why they die. Using a general theory of poetic form employing universal principles rooted in the human language faculty, Russom argues that certain kinds of poetry tend to arise ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD