This book covers the history of the theory and practice of translation from Cicero to the digital age. It examines all major processes of translation, offers critical accounts of current research, and compares competing theoretical perspectives. It considers all kinds of translation from sacred texts, poetry, fiction, and sign language to remote, consecutive, and simultaneous interpretation in legal, diplomatic, and commercial contexts.
is an expression, word, or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is comprehended in regard to a common use of that expression that is separate from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it is made.
There are estimated to be at least 25,000 idiomatic expressions in the English language....
This book examines how Russian-speaking adoptees in three US families actively shape opportunities for language learning and identity construction in everyday interactions. This work focuses on how learners achieve agency in second language socialization processes and informs the fields of second language acquisition and language maintenance and shift.
Contexts of Subordination: Cognitive, typological and discourse perspectives is a collection of articles that approaches linguistic subordination as a semantico-grammatical and pragmatic phenomenon. The volume brings together cognitive, interactional and typological perspectives, and is characterised by extensive use of multi-genre data. The collection aims at a more precise understanding of subordination by emphasizing its pragmatic and contextual nature. Subordination and its linguistic realizations are studied from the perspective of language in its actual contexts of use, as an interactional resource available to language users, in both written and spoken language.
British Council Learn English Postcasts: Series 3 Episodes 11-20
British Council Elementary MP3 PDF Join Tess, Ravi and many others each episode. Ideal for learners without much English language experience. Practise your English language listening skills. Listen to them on your computer, or download them to your mp3 player or smartphone. Tess and Ravi discuss something British that people think isn't much good. Adam and Rob read your comments about your jobs. Your comments about British food - and Carolina has a suggestion about a boy for Emily! Tess and Ravi talk about politeness and Adam reads your comments about going to the cinema.
