Sniecikowska Beata Sniecikowska & Rembowska-Pluciennik Magdalena Rembowska-Pluciennik 
Understanding Misunderstanding. Vol.1: Cross-Cultural Translation [PDF ebook] 

School success in the 21st century requires proficiency with expository discourse — the use and understanding of informative language in spoken and written modalities. This occurs, for example, when …

At the heart of this volume lies an exploration of what actually happens to languages and their users when cultures come into contact. What actions do supra-national institutions, nation states, comm …

Originally published in 1980, this title looks at the mental processes involved in producing and understanding spoken language. Although there had been several edited volumes on speech in the previou …

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Cognition provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of how translation and cognition relate to each other, discussing the most important issues in …

The Qur”an is read by millions of Muslims on a daily basis, yet there is no book available to the reader, Arab or non-Arab, which provides a linguistic and rhetorical insight into Qur”anic discours …

In Linguistic Theory, Robert de Beaugrande analyses linguistic theories not as abstract ideas or theses, but as the process and product of theoretical discourse. He argues that the best documentation …

Maxime mei paenitet, vendidi uxorem tua in agora e Bay. I’m really sorry, I sold your wife on e Bay. (Shouted into a mobile phone) Sum in longus quadrigarus! I’m on the train! Nuntiis meis non respon …

The Poetics of Childhood investigates the sensibility of childhood and the ways writers try to recapture it. It explores the earliest conceptions of innocence and the development of literature about …

Statistics on the translation market consistently identify medicine as a major thematic area as far as volume or translation is concerned. Vicent Montalt and Maria Gonzalez Davis, both experienced tr …