Linguistics

Translation scholars have for a long time been arguing in favor of a shift in paradigms to redefine the relationship between translation and the sp...

This book offers a concise introduction to synchronic English linguistics. Following an introduction to language and linguistics as such, it provid...

The main question of this book, which focuses on the role of the Old Testament in the South African context, is: If reread from an African liberati...

This book investigates different elements which have direct implications for translations but are not the actual text. These features are usually p...

A number of features mark this book apart from others. There is simply no book currently available on Daoism (Taoism) written primarily from a psyc...

The genre of crime fiction so often rooted in the details of a place, time and subculture enjoys significant international popularity and provide...

This unique collection, The Transatlantic Culture Trade: Caribbean Creole Proverbs from Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean, celebrates indigenous Ca...

Like many other human activities, translation is related to different forms of power. It can be the ability to control and set the rules. With wri...

El presente volumen aborda la traducción e interpretación institucional con un triple enfoque: a) su aplicación social; b) las tendencias profesio...

The teaching of English in multilingual contexts such as Zimbabwe, where English is often not the primary language of the Black majority public sch...

The present volume is a monographic study devoted to selected aspects of English historical phonology, orthography, syntax, morphology and semantic...

The volume fills a gap in the lively international debate on terminology and discourse by uncovering the new possibilities offered by analysing ter...

Multimodality is the notion which stands behind the most fertile investigations incommunication and language studies nowadays. Multimodal depiction...

This volume presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the different ways in which the two terms «politics» and «translation» interact....