Linguistics & Language Studies
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From ![]() Telling Canada’s “Story” in German: Using Cultural Diplomacy to Achieve Soft PowerFrom: Translating Canada |
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 |
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From ![]() Terminological Relationships and Corpus-Based Methods for Discovering Them: An Assessment for Terminographers |
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 |
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From ![]() Tests as Power Tools: Looking Back, Looking Forward |
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 |
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From ![]() NEW! The 1968 Thinkers’ Conference and the Birth of Canadian MulticulturalismFrom: 1968 in Canada |
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 |
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From ![]() The “AlterNative” Frontier: Native Canadian Writing in German/yFrom: Translating Canada |
This chapter undertakes an empirical survey of existing German Translations of Canadian First Nations literature. In addition, it explores the reciprocal influence that the image of “the … | Eva Gruber | 32 | 2007 | $3.20 Add |
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From ![]() The Challenge of (Diagnostic) Testing: Do We Know What We Are Measuring? |
The language testing literature is confused about the nature of diagnostic tests. Diagnosis is a frequently used but under-problematized concept and a debate is needed that might lead to a … | J. Charles Alderson | 19 | 2007 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() The Coming of Age for Research on Test-Taking Strategies |
In this selective look at research on test-taking strategies over the last twenty-five years, brief mention is made of the beginnings of test-taker strategy research and then important … | Andrew D. Cohen | 23 | 2007 | $2.30 Add |
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From The Contextual Turn in Learning to Translate |
Dictionaries and corpora remain essentially different tools. Dictionaries chase a moving target (as Sue Atkins has said), corpora get closer to this moving target, but even they are always … | Krista Varantola | 12 | 2006 | $1.68 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The FohnFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Recounts the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, his experience with it, and the connection to those family members lost to the Spanish Flu. | Jaspreet Singh | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() The Homeland is Where None of This Can Happen |
This chapter describes the experiences of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish from the 1940s to the present. | Marcello Di Cintio | 25 | 2018 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() The Importance of Prose Translation |
No one would deny the difficulties involved in translating into a foreign language, and yet it is a possibility. The practice is necessary in most countries. This has always been the case, and it … | Allison Beeby-Lonsdale | 4 | 1996 | $0.48 Add |
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From ![]() The Importance of Translation |
The importance of translation should not be underestimated, particularly in a world that has to learn to husband its resources as one world or perish in the attempt. Without translators, … | Allison Beeby-Lonsdale | 2 | 1996 | $0.24 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Last EssayFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Confronts Singh’s mother’s death and the last essay she left him for her memoirs. | Jaspreet Singh | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() The Linguist of Ancient and Medieval Days |
As anthropologists know, even the most primitive of peoples maintained an intertribal communication which must be deemed an elementary form of diplomacy. But since not all tribes spoke the same … | Ruth Roland | 31 | 1999 | $4.03 Add |
![]() The Origins of Simultaneous InterpretationThe Nuremberg Trial |
This book offers the first complete analysis of the emergence of simultaneous interpretation a the Nuremburg Trail and the individuals who made the process possible. Francesca Gaiba offers new … | Francesca Gaiba | 191 | 1998 | View |
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From ![]() The “Other Women”: Canadian Women Writers Blazing a Trail into GermanyFrom: Translating Canada |
This chapter is concerned with German responses to the wave of translations of English Canadian women writers, a response that, in its enthusiasm, undoubtedly had a strong effect on the … | Brita Oeding; Luise von Flotow | 14 | 2007 | $1.40 Add |












