Richard Gaskin offers an original defence of literary humanism, according to which works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of production and not subject to individual readers' responses. He shows that the appreciation of literature is a cognitive activity fully on a par with scientific investigation.
Рассматриваются основные теоретические положения переводоведения, практика перевода и методика его преподавания.Может быть полезно в системе повышения квалификации и переподготовки специалистов, а также для самостоятельного развития навыков практического перевода с иностранного языка на русский.
Lexical Availability in English and Spanish as a Second Language (Educational Linguistics)
This volume contributes to the research in two different research areas: lexical availability studies and vocabulary research in second or foreign languages. Lexical availability is defined as the words that immediately come to mind as a response to a stimulus provided by topics related to domains closely connected to daily life: for instance animals, food and drink, daily activities, politics, or poverty.
The Language Phenomenon: Human Communication from Milliseconds to Millennia (The Frontiers Collection)
This volume contains a contemporary, integrated description of the processes of language. These range from fast scales (fractions of a second) to slow ones (over a million years).
For years, the prevailing opinion among academics has been that language is embedded in our genes, existing as an innate and instinctual part of us. In this bold and provocative study, linguist Daniel Everett argues that, like other tools, language was invented by humans and can be reinvented or lost.
