11th Conference on British and American Studies : embracing multitudes of meaning / edited by Marinela Burada, Oana Tatu and Raluca Sinu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burada, Marinela, editor.

Tatu, Oana, editor.

Sinu, Raluca, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics--Great Britain.

Sociolinguistics.

Sociolinguistics--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Eleventh Conference on British and American Studies : embracing multitudes of meaning

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The present volume includes a selection of twenty-nine papers by academics, and senior and junior researchers who came together within the framework of the 11th Conference on British and American Studies. Structured into three sections, the contributions included here display a wide array of topics and methodologies illustrating a variety of scholarly pursuits and approaches. These, in their turn, reflect the issues which constitute the complex nature of language and culture, and their mutual.

Contents:

Intro

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

ON THE EASTERN VS. WESTERN CARIBBEANCREOLES DIVIDE

OBVIATION AND/OR OBVIATIVEEFFECTS CROSS-LINGUISTICALLY

ROMANIAN UNIVERSAL AND EPISTEMICFREE CHOICE ITEMS

CARDINAL-NOUN CONSTRUCTIONSARE PARTITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS

ON SCRAMBLING AND DIFFERENTIAL OBJECTMARKING WITH A FOCUS ON GERMANAND ROMANIAN (WITH A FOCUSON INDEFINITE DIRECT OBJECTS)

ON THE CURRENT USE OF ROMANIAN TERMSDENOTING PHYSICAL DEFECTS

MAPPING CITATION PRACTICESIN ACADEMIC WRITING

PHONOLOGICAL FEATURESOF MULTICULTURAL LONDON ENGLISH

ARGUMENTATION IN NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

THE ACQUISITION OF SCALAR IMPLICATURESIN CHILD ROMANIAN

EVENT CONFLATION IN CHILD ROMANIAN

MODAL MEANINGS IN EARLY CHILD ENGLISH

INTERFACES IN ENGLISHAS A SECOND LANGUAGE

CHAPTER II

TRANSLATING MODERN TEXTS

CROSSING THE BRIDGE

"PUNDERING" OVER PUNSIN THE TRANSLATION OF MICHEL FABER'STHE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE

MULTITUDES OF MEANING, COMPENSATIONAND TRANSLATION LOSSIN P.G. WODEHOUSE'S RIGHT HO, JEEVES

FEATURES OF CONTEXTUALIZATIONIN THE DICTIONARY OF THE ROMANIANLANGUAGE PROJECT

CHAPTER III

THE SATANIC VERSES, MULTICULTURALISM,AND THE MULTIPLICITY OF PERSPECTIVESIN BRITISH LITERATURE AT THE ENDOF THE 1980S

THE OUTSTRIPING AND THE FORESHORTENINGAS LITERARY POSSIBILITIESOF CONTEXTUALIZATION

INSCRIBING SPACE AND IDENTITYWITHIN PRIMARY NEXUSES

VISIONS OF COMMUNITYIN THOMAS PYNCHON'S VINELAND

SITUATING THE BLACK SELF

BLACK BRITISHNESS IN DIRAN ADEBAYO'SSOME KIND OF BLACK

NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVESIN KATHRYN STOCKETT'S THE HELP

TOTALITARIANISM IN AND BEYOND CONTEXTWITH ORWELL AND IONESCO

CIRCASSIAN MINORITY

CONTEXT, MEANING AND IMAGEIN THE MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATEDMANUSCRIPTS

THE MEANING OF MAGIC REVELATIONAT KING ARTHUR'S COURT

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS.

SUBJECT INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 18, 2015).

ISBN:

1-4438-7291-1

OCLC:

901287320