Linguistics & Language Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From The “AlterNative” Frontier: Native Canadian Writing in German/y From: Translating Canada View University of Ottawa Press	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
From The Bricks of Babel From: The City of Words View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Manguel explores the interplay between language, identity, and storytelling, drawing on Kafka’s 1918 Babel meditations, Irish colonial history, and Inuit narrative …	Alberto Manguel	31	2007	$3.10 Add
From The Challenge of (Diagnostic) Testing: Do We Know What We Are Measuring? From: Language Testing Reconsidered View University of Ottawa Press	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
From The Coming of Age for Research on Test-Taking Strategies From: Language Testing Reconsidered View University of Ottawa Press	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
From The Contextual Turn in Learning to Translate From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation View University of Ottawa Press	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
From NEW! The Fohn From: My Mother, My Translator View Véhicule Press	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
From NEW! The Hidden Books From: Bit Player on Big Stages View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Turene recounts his experiences hiding French books from a school inspector, discussing the underground resistance to language suppression in Manitoba.	Roger Turene	3	2025	$0.30 Add
From The Homeland is Where None of This Can Happen From: Pay No Heed to the Rockets View Collection: Witnesses to Global Conflict: Canadian Authors' Accounts Goose Lane Editions	This chapter describes the experiences of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish from the 1940s to the present.	Marcello Di Cintio	25	2018	$2.50 Add
From The Importance of Prose Translation From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English View University of Ottawa Press	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
From The Importance of Translation From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English View University of Ottawa Press	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
From NEW! The Last Essay From: My Mother, My Translator View Véhicule Press	Confronts Singh’s mother’s death and the last essay she left him for her memoirs.	Jaspreet Singh	14	2021	$1.40 Add
From The Linguist of Ancient and Medieval Days From: Interpreters as Diplomats View University of Ottawa Press	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 Interpretation The Nuremberg Trial University of Ottawa Press	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
From The “Other Women”: Canadian Women Writers Blazing a Trail into Germany From: Translating Canada View University of Ottawa Press	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
From The Screen of Hal From: The City of Words View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Manguel examines how societies have built exclusionary structures to manage perceived external threats, from Aristotle’s barbarians to modern economic machinery.	Alberto Manguel	30	2007	$3.00 Add
From The Semantic Apparatus of Guy Miège’s New Dictionary French and English, with Another English and French From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation View University of Ottawa Press	In the following pages, we will look at the work of one specific lexicographer, Guy Miìge. Miìge’s first bilingual dictionary, entitled A New Dictionary French and English, …	Aline Francoeur	12	2006	$1.68 Add