This title consolidates the many disparate action-approaches to language into a single coherent new paradigm for the study of language as speech act, as performance - as doing things with words.
Robinson's student-friendly introduction to pragmatics explores a diverse range of approaches to this action-oriented study of language. Discussion questions, an on-line teacher's guide and short biographies of key figures aid further study.
This title consolidates the many disparate action-approaches to language into a single coherent new paradigm for the study of language as speech act, as performance - as doing things with words.
This book celebrates experimental translation, taking a series of exploratory looks at the hypercyborg translator, the collage translator, the smuggler translator, and the heteronymous translator.
This book celebrates experimental translation, taking a series of exploratory looks at the hypercyborg translator, the collage translator, the smuggler translator, and the heteronymous translator.
This book on translation borrows from the introduction to Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. It will interest graduate students and... Læs mere
From the time of the first written sacred texts in the West, taboo has proscribed the act and art of translation. So argues the author of this book, exploring the age-old prohibition of translation of sacred texts. He shows how similar taboos influence interculture exchange.