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By taking an integrated approach to translation, Hatim and Mason provide a refreshingly unprejudiced contribution to translation theory....
Published December 11th 1996 by Routledge
Basque is the sole survivor of the very ancient languages of Western Europe. This book, written by an internationally renowned specialist in Basque, provides a comprehensive survey of all that is known about the prehistory of the language, including pronunciation, the grammar and the vocabulary. It...
Published December 4th 1996 by Routledge
Series: English Language: Past, Present and Future
English is learnt, internationally, in a range of diverse settings. This book examines processes of language acquisition in English, as well as what it means to learn English in different parts of the world. It looks at the place of English within formal education, and at some of the...
Published December 4th 1996 by Routledge
Series: Interface
Published December 4th 1996 by Routledge
Through a detailed re-reading of Saussures's work in the light of contemporary developments in the human, life and physical sciences, Paul Thibault provides us with the means to redefine and refocus our theories of social meaning-making. Saussure's theory of language is generally considered to be a...
Published November 13th 1996 by Routledge
Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
Published October 31st 1996 by Routledge
This collection of twenty-nine papers is in honour of E. G. Stanley, Rawlinson and Bosworth Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Written by scholars he has supervised, examined or otherwise served as mentor for within the...
Published October 30th 1996 by Routledge
Series: History of Linguistic Thought
In Ideology and Linguistic Theory Geoffrey Huck and John Goldsmith provide a revisionist account of the development of ideas about semantics in modern theories of language, focusing particularly on Chomsky's very public rift with the Generative Semanticists about the concept of Deep Structure....
Published October 30th 1996 by Routledge
Through his analysis of selected major developments in the history of English, Jeremy Smith argues that the history of the language can only be understood from a dynamic perspective. He proposes that internal linguistic mechanisms for language change cannot be meaningfully explained in isolation or...
Published October 16th 1996 by Routledge
Series: The Politics of Language
Published October 9th 1996 by Routledge
