Perspectives in Translation Studies

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Based on a great deal of recent research performed by academics investigating works translated from/into English, this book provides fresh perspectives to the field of translation studies. It combines theoretical and practical aspects of the translation process with a comprehensive set of thoroughly commented examples. "Perspectives in Translation Studies" is a structurally complex volume which: is especially designed to cover insights into a wide range of British and American literary products (novels, short stories and poetry); comparatively examines patterns of language use in English and other languages, referring both to pairs of verbs and phraseological constructions (collocations and idioms, pre-fabricated or ready-made phrases and proverbs); and, explores some of the globalization challenges in the translation of national films into English. It is ideal for every person with an interest not only in the art or the making of a translation but also in the result of the translation process.

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London Gothic (Continuum Literary Studies)

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An exploration of London and gothic representation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a variety of media. >

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Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age: Technological Innovation in the United States, 1790-1865 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

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Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age: Technological Innovation in the United States, 1790-1865 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) Feature

The United States registered phenomenal economic growth between the establishment of the new republic and the end of the Civil War. Ross Thomson's fresh study accounts for the unprecedented technological innovations that helped propel antebellum growth.

Thomson argues that the transition of the United States from an agrarian economy in 1790 to an industrial leader in 1865 relied fundamentally on the spread of technological knowledge within and across industries. Essential to this spread was a dense web of knowledge-diffusing institutions—new occupations and industries, the patent office, machine shops, mechanics' associations, scientific societies, public colleges, and the civil engineering profession. Together they composed an integrated innovation system that generated, disseminated, and employed new technical knowledge across ever-widening ranges of the economy.

To trace technological change in fourteen major industries and the economy as a whole, Thomson analyzes 14,000 patents, the records of two dozen machinery firms, census data for 1,800 companies, and hundreds of business directories. This exhaustive research leads to his interesting interpretation of technological diffusion and development. Thomson's impressive study of the infrastructure that fueled and supported the young country's economic and industrial successes will interest students of economic, technological, and business history.

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That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader

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This newly expanded and revised second edition of That's the Joint! brings together the most important and up-to-date hip-hop scholarship in one comprehensive volume. Presented thematically, the selections address the history of hip-hop, identity politics of the "hip-hop nation," debates of "street authenticity," social movements and activism, aesthetics, technologies of production, hip-hop as a cultural industry, and much more. Further, this new edition also includes greater coverage of gender, racial diversity in hip-hop, hip-hop’s global influences, and examines hip-hop's role in contemporary politics.

With pedagogical features including author biographies, headnotes summarizing key points of articles, and discussion questions, That's the Joint! is essential reading for anyone seeking deeper understanding of the profound impact of hip-hop as an intellectual, aesthetic, and cultural movement.

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Saudi Arabic Basic Course: Urban Hajazi Dialect (Hippocrene Language Studies)

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An index of grammatical structures, a glossary, an index and appendices of specialized vocabulary, social expressions, gestures, and Saudi names are included.

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Bedouin, Village and Urban Arabic: An Ecolinguistic Study (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics)

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As a culture area, the Arab world has had different ecological structures - nomadic (bedouin) and sedentary (rural and urban) - with parallel linguistic systems. Throughout the long history of the Arabic language, the development of transitional stages has generated linguistic correlates in Arabic dialects. The notion "ecolinguistics", combined and reinforced with the concepts of "compatibility" and "lexical diffusion", is introduced in this study to identify such a sociolinguistic change. The domain of change for this ecolinguistic variation is the extended family wherein the middle generation develops new lexical items by the application of ecolinguistic rules. Cadora describes these rules, which speakers generate as they gradually acquire an awareness of the social parameters for their use. The theoretical framework and the putative results of this study are offered to stimulate further research in the causation and implementation of linguistic change, especially in terms of quantitative analyses of ecolinguistic variation and lexical diffusion in the Arabic language.

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