Semantics and Pragmatics of False Friends
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A01=Pedro J. Chamizo-Dominguez
adjective
Author_Pedro J. Chamizo-Dominguez
Axiologically Neuter
Bullfi Ghting
Cabo De Hornos
Category=CFB
Category=CFDM
Category=CFG
cognate
cognitive linguistics
cross-linguistic semantics
Deceptive Words
english
English Cognates
English Noun
eq_bestseller
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Euphemistic Meaning
False Cognates
False Friend
Fi Gurative Meaning
french
French Noun
Groundless Rumours
gurative
Interchangeability Salva Veritate
Las Ventas
lexical ambiguity
linguistic
linguistic interference
meaning
Modern Languages
noun
Noun Doctor
Pata Negra
pragmatic analysis
pragmatic strategies in language interpretation
salient
Salient Meaning
Single Natural Language
spanish
Spanish Adjective
Spanish Cognate
Spanish Language
Spanish Noun
Spanish Reader
translation challenges
Vice Versa
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- ISBN 9780415887885
- Weight: 370g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Nov 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book approaches the topic of false friends from a theoretical perspective, arguing that false friends carry out a positive role as a cognitive device, mainly in literature and jokes, and suggesting some pragmatic strategies in order to restore the original sense of a text/utterance when a given translator (or a foreign speaker) falls victim to false friends. This theoretical account is successively verified by appealing to texts from the fields of literature, science, philosophy, journalism, and everyday speech.
Pedro J. Chamizo Domínguez lectures in Philosophy of Language at The University of Malaga (Spain). He has published five books and several papers in Spanish, Slovakian, English, and French.
