Linguistics & Language Studies

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heimwee/homesick

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The author and her partner deal with a Neo Nazi during a trip to the Netherlands 6 $0.60 Add
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Ideal Translator Communicative Competence

From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

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A fuller definition of the teaching objectives and a method for achieving them. 8 $0.96 Add
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Intrinsic Qualities Favouring Term Implantation: Verifying the Axioms

From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation

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No matter how they are dissected, terminology planning efforts, like any management process, always include an evaluation and control phase. This phase is an opportune time to take a critical … 12 $1.68 Add
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Language Testing: A Question of Context

From: Language Testing Reconsidered

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Arguably the greatest challenge facing language testing is the issue of the context in which language testing is carried out, both at the micro and the macro level. In standard works on language … 7 $0.70 Add
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Sunday Morning

From: My Mother, My Translator

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A quattrain about trains in his mother’s dream. 2 $0.20 Add
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Contemporary (English) Canadian Plays in German/y Equivalence in Difference?

From: Translating Canada

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Importing Canadian plays across the Atlantic occurs most frequently when a published text or play script of a Canadian play is translated and converted into a draft for production in Europe. But … 22 $2.20 Add
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French Theorists, North American Scholiasts

From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation

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While increases in frequency and narrowing of collocational range are typical of terminological formation, there may well be (at least in the humanities) a difference in kind between … 11 $1.54 Add
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ik/I

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The alphabet in Dutch, along with a helpful guide. 6 $0.60 Add
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Smoke

From: My Mother, My Translator

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Singh shares a folktale told to him by his mother before telling a story from when he first moved to Canada. 9 $0.90 Add
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Student Translator Communicative Competence

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Discusses student translator competences. 5 $0.60 Add
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Tests as Power Tools: Looking Back, Looking Forward

From: Language Testing Reconsidered

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In this chapter I discuss current uses of language tests in education and society, arguing that tests have become primary tools used by policy makers to resolve and reform educational, political, … 12 $1.20 Add
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Consequences of Translation for Legal Terminology during the Middle Ages and Renaissance

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In the sixth century, Justinian I, Emperor of the East, instructed a commission of jurists to compile and correct the classical Roman laws. The commission produced what became known in the West … 12 $1.68 Add
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House

From: My Mother, My Translator

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Discusses Singh’s mother’s family home, its importance to her, its loss, and her return. 13 $1.30 Add
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juli/July

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The author recalls a trip to England, and her father’s struggle with depression. 6 $0.60 Add
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The Teaching Context

From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

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Having compared student translator competence with ideal translator competence within the teaching context, it is now possible to adapt the list of general translation teaching objectives to the … 4 $0.48 Add
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Translated or Traduced? Canadian Literary and Political Theory in a German Context: Northrop Frye, Michael Ignatieff, and Charles Taylor

From: Translating Canada

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This chapter reveals that the importation, translation, marketing, and reception of English Canadian children’s literature in Germany have been governed by two major principles: first, up … 31 $3.10 Add