10th Conference on British and American Studies - Crossing Boundaries : approaches to the contemporary multicultural discoures / edited by Marinela Burada and Oana Tatu ; contributors, Zsuzsanna Ajtony [and twenty-five others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burada, Marinela, editor.

Tatu, Oana, editor.

Ajtony, Zsuzsanna, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics--Great Britain--Congresses.

Sociolinguistics.

Sociolinguistics--United States--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Other Title:

Tenth Conference on British and American studies - crossing boundaries

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book consists of a collection of papers on specific issues centred around three broad areas of scholarly interest: native language analysis, foreign language acquisition and training, and cultural and literary studies. It provides a concise snapshot of the multiplicity of vantage points from which language, literature and culture-related phenomena can be studied and accounted for. The unifying principle behind the variety of issues and approaches illustrated here is the overarching notio...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; INTRODUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC FEATURES IN FOUR EASTERNCARIBBEAN ENGLISH-LEXIFIED CREOLES; ON SOME FEATURES OF THE VOCALIC SYSTEMOF KENYAN ENGLISH; DEGREES OF NOUNINESSOF ROMANIAN CARDINALS; IMPLICATIVE VERBS AND THEIR SUBJUNCTIVECOMPLEMENTS IN ROMANIAN; POSITIVE POLARITY ITEMS IN ROMANIAN; A SEMIC ANALYSIS OF TERMS DENOTINGPHYSICAL DEFECTS IN ROMANIAN; THE DICTIONARY REVIEW IN ROMANIAN; CHAPTER II; INTRODUCTION; 'GROUNDED THEORY'; ROLE-PLAYS IN TEACHING ENGLISHFOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES; ENGLISH FOR HORTICULTURE; SEMANTIC RELATIONSIN E-COMMERCE TERMINOLOGY

ASPECTS OF TRANSFER IN FOREIGNLANGUAGE ACQUISITIONTHE ACQUISITION OF DRESS AND TRAPBY ROMANIAN LEARNERS OF ENGLISH; REVIEWING A TRANSLATIONALLEARNER CORPUS FOR NATURALNESS; CHAPTER III; INTRODUCTION; LINGUISTIC 'SILENCE'IN ENGLISH AND SERBIAN; LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATIONSOF BRITISH AND AMERICAN CULTURAL SPACEIN G. B. SHAW'S THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE; HAVE YOU SEEN THE FILM?SUBTITLING REFERENCESTO FILMS AND ACTORS; THE BEAUTY OF SUBTITLINGAND THE BEAST IN DUBBING; CULTURAL DIFFERENCES; REPRESENTATION OF WOMENIN ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN TABLOIDS

FROM MULTICULTURALISMTO INTERCULTURALISMIN THREE BRITISHCONTEMPORARY NOVELSGRAHAM SWIFT'S CITY, OR THE DARK SIDEOF CIVILISATION AND MULTICULTURALISM; CONSTRUCTING ROUND FEMALEVS. FLAT MALE CHARACTERS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; SUBJECT INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 7, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6312-2

OCLC:

882778565