Linguistics & Language Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Sentences in Context From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English View University of Ottawa Press	Teaching units 5 to 10: Sentences out of context I, Sentences out of context II, Imagining contexts – Registers, Imagining contexts and readers, Comic strips and Textual Interaction.	Allison Beeby-Lonsdale	22	1996	$2.64 Add
From She is Oranges that Explode From: Pay No Heed to the Rockets View Goose Lane Editions	In this chapter, the author explores the experience of refugees living in camps in Palestine.	Marcello Di Cintio	38	2018	$3.80 Add
From NEW! Silences From: My Mother, My Translator View Véhicule Press	Talks about the story told within an author’s silence. What is revealed by the stories omitted. Singh illustrates this through the story of his mother’s older sister—a story she …	Jaspreet Singh	8	2021	$0.80 Add
From NEW! Smoke From: My Mother, My Translator View Véhicule Press	Singh shares a folktale told to him by his mother before telling a story from when he first moved to Canada.	Jaspreet Singh	9	2021	$0.90 Add
From NEW! Some Photons From: My Mother, My Translator View Véhicule Press	A poem about eyes.	Jaspreet Singh	1	2021	$0.10 Add
Songs Upon the Rivers The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific Baraka Books	“A major undertaking … a valuable contribution,” Canada’s History Long before the Davy Crocketts, the Daniel Boones and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade …	Michel Bouchard; Robert Foxcurran; Sébastien Malette	448	2016	View
From stilte/silence From: Alfabet/Alphabet View Palimpsest Press	In this chapter, the de Meijer writes about poetic emphasis, and how this can differ between languages.	Sadiqa de Meijer	8	2020	$0.80 Add
From Student Translator Communicative Competence From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English View University of Ottawa Press	Discusses student translator competences.	Allison Beeby-Lonsdale	5	1996	$0.60 Add
From NEW! Sulphur From: My Mother, My Translator View Véhicule Press	Singh’s decision to visit Banff, and the reaction that visit provoked.	Jaspreet Singh	2	2021	$0.20 Add
From NEW! Sunday Morning From: My Mother, My Translator View Véhicule Press	A quattrain about trains in his mother’s dream.	Jaspreet Singh	2	2021	$0.20 Add
From Teaching Professional Prose Translation From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English View University of Ottawa Press	The aim of this book is to establish the theoretical and methodological basis for structuring a professional prose-translation class. The students are learning to develop translator-transfer …	Allison Beeby-Lonsdale	5	1996	$0.60 Add
Teaching Translation from Spanish to English Worlds Beyond Words University of Ottawa Press	While many professional translators believe the ability to translate is a gift that one either has or does not have, Allison Beeby Lonsdale questions this view. In her innovative book, she …	Allison Beeby-Lonsdale	257	1996	View
From Telling Canada’s “Story” in German: Using Cultural Diplomacy to Achieve Soft Power From: Translating Canada View University of Ottawa Press	We want to understand why certain texts are selected for translation and why others are left aside. Which aesthetic, economic, or ideological considerations enter into the selection process? In …	Luise von Flotow	18	2007	$1.80 Add
From Terminological Relationships and Corpus-Based Methods for Discovering Them: An Assessment for Terminographers From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation View University of Ottawa Press	Recent work in terminology shows an increasing interest in a largevariety of relationships between terms (qualified by authors as semantic,terminological, or conceptual). Hyperonymy and meronymy …	Elizabeth Marshman; Marie-Claude L’Homme	14	2006	$1.96 Add
From Tests as Power Tools: Looking Back, Looking Forward From: Language Testing Reconsidered View University of Ottawa Press	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, …	Elana Shohamy	12	2007	$1.20 Add
From NEW! The 1968 Thinkers’ Conference and the Birth of Canadian Multiculturalism From: 1968 in Canada View University of Ottawa Press	From 13 to 15 December 1968, a meeting took place in Toronto that should be considered among the most important contributions to the birth of Canadian multiculturalism: the Thinkers’ …	Michael Temelini	29	2021	$2.90 Add