Investigating language as social (Inter-) action : the 15th Conference on British and American Studies / edited by Marinela Burada, Oana Tatu and Raluca Sinu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burada, Marinela

Contributor:

Burada, Marinela, editor.

Tatu, Oana, editor.

Sinu, Raluca, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics--Great Britain.

Sociolinguistics.

Sociolinguistics--United States.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publisher, [2019]

Summary:

This volume consists of papers presented during the 15th Conference on British and American Studies, held at Transilvania University of Brașov, Romania. It reflects the work conducted by senior and junior researchers on a range of interesting topics falling into the wider scope of cognitive linguistics, language contact, translation and lexicography. The investigations reported here are streamlined into three chapters. The first, "Native Language Explorations and Acquisition", has Romanian as its central theme. The second chapter, "Aspects of English - Insights into its Impact, Structure, and Descriptive Potential", centres around the English language considered both as an object of academic inquiry in its own right, and against a larger cultural backdrop. The final chapter, "Translatability of Language, Translatability of Culture", looks into matters concerning intra- and inter-linguistic translation, and their impact on intercultural communication.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Chapter I

Romanian as an Object of Investigation

Aspectual Verbs in Romanian

Two Types of Complement for One (Type of) Aspectual Verb in Romanian

Modern Romanian NPIs

The Acquisition of Epistemic Modality in a Romanian-Hungarian Bilingual Context

Sensitivity to Negative and Positive Polarity in Child Romanian

Chapter II

English as an Object of Investigation

Early Jamaican Creole Syllable Structure

Anglicism Usage in a Swedish Daily Blog

On the Similarity between Factive Verbs and Manner of Speaking Verbs

Phytonyms in Idiomatic Expressions

Representation of Rural Communities in American and Romanian Local Newspapers

Chapter III

Language and Culture in Translation

Dictionarese or not Really?

On the Outside Matter of Romanian Online Dictionaries

Translating Animal Metaphors in Shakespeare's Hamlet

Challenges in Translating Collective Nouns

Adequacy or Acceptability in the Translation of Patient Information Leaflets

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-3548-7

OCLC:

1183030285