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Doctor Dolittle's Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language
Dr. Dolittle had it wrong, says the author of this fascinating book:
animals cannot use language. Stephen Anderson explains the difference
between communication and language and shows that animals do not have
the cognitive capacities necessary to acquire language.
"A masterly overview of what is currently known about the communicative
abilities of a wide range of creatures. . . . Anderson's synthesis
provides illuminating comparisons with the infinitely more
sophisticated resources of the human language. . . . An elegant
book."—Neil Smith, Nature
"Well-written, well-argued, and provocative. . . . I enjoyed this book
and recommend it to anyone interested in animal communication and the
evolution of language."—Marc Bekoff, Quarterly Review of Biology.
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Carl Sagan muses on the current state of scientific thought, which
offers him marvelous opportunities to entertain us with his own
childhood experiences, the newspaper morgues, UFO stories, and the
assorted flotsam and jetsam of pseudoscience. Along the way he debunks
alien abduction, faith-healing, and channeling; refutes the arguments
that science destroys spirituality, and provides a "baloney detection
kit" for thinking through political, social, religious, and other
issues.
This introductory textbook provides an accessible overview of the key contributions to translation theory. Munday explores each theory chapter-by-chapter and tests the different approaches by applying them to texts. The texts discussed are taken from a broad range of languages - English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Punjabi, Portuguese and Spanish - and English translations are provided. A wide variety of text types is analysed, including a tourist brochure, a children's cookery book, a Harry Potter novel, the Bible, literary reviews and translators' prefaces, film translation, a technical text and a European Parliament speech.
Translating cultures - An introduction for translators, interpreters and mediators
As the 21st century gets into stride so does the call for a
discipline combining culture and translation. This second edition of
Translating Cultures
retains its original aim of putting some rigour and coherence into
these fashionable words and lays the foundation for such a discipline.
The core of the book provides a model for teaching culture to
translators, interpreters and other mediators. It introduces the reader
to current understanding about culture and aims to raise awareness of
the fundamental role of culture in constructing, perceiving and
translating reality. Culture is perceived throughout as a system for
orienting experience, and a basic presupposition is that the
organization of experience is not 'reality', but rather a simplified
model and a 'distortion' which varies from culture to culture. Each
culture acts as a frame within which external signs or 'reality' are
interpreted. The approach is interdisciplinary, taking ideas from
contemporary translation theory, anthropology, Bateson's logical typing
and metamessage theories, Bandler and Grinder's NLP meta-model theory,
and Hallidayan functional grammar.
Authentic texts and translations are offered to illustrate the
various strategies that a cultural mediator can adopt in order to make
the different cultural frames he or she is mediating between more
explicit.
The Management Bible is the most comprehensive book on the topic of management available anywhere. It offers in-depth coverage of the entire range of essential topics for today’s managers and supervisors—from beginners to seasoned veterans—and includes practical, effective solutions for the everyday problems every manager faces. In addition, the book also includes proven tips and tactics that help managers grow into more effective, efficient leaders. Authors Bob Nelson and Peter Economy reveal everything you need to know to keep up with today’s rapidly changing business environment, including such topics as hiring and firing, motivating employees, development and ...