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From ![]() Student Translator Communicative Competence |
Discusses student translator competences. | Allison Beeby-Lonsdale | 5 | 1996 | $0.60 Add |
![]() Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature |
Issues of sexuality, censorship, and self-censorship in the formation of national and cultural identities are a focus of great interest in contemporary literary research. This is the first work … | Nitsa Ben-Ari | 423 | 2006 | View |
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From ![]() Survival Then and Now |
I wrote and published Survival in 1972. It ignited a ferocious debate and became, as they say, a runaway bestseller. This was a shock to everyone, including me. Canadian writing, interesting! … | Margaret Atwood | 9 | 2003 | $0.72 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Sustainability in the Arctic Borderlands |
This chapter focuses on environmental change, which has quickly become the most important project of border security in the North. Water governance is a key. The focus remains on how cross-border … | Heather Nicol; Justin Barnes | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
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From ![]() Sycophants, Citizens and the Majesty of Nature: Some Thoughts on the History of Australian Civic Debate |
Throughout the last 150 years of at times active, at times utterly uninspired civic debate, Australia has produced its fair share of sycophants determined to possess the baubles of Empire. … | David Headon | 12 | 2004 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() Teaching Professional Prose Translation |
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 EnglishWorlds Beyond Words |
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 |
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From ![]() Techno-nationalism and Meso-innovation Systems: A Cognitive Dynamics ApproachFrom: The New Geo-Governance |
Too many forces at work in the world economy would appear to suggest that, as globalization proceeds, national disintegration occurs, and sub-national components gain more importance. | Gilles Paquet | 18 | 2005 | $1.62 Add |
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From ![]() Teledemocracy in the Province: An Experiment with Internet-Based Software and Public DebateFrom: Cyberidentities |
The experiment with Besliswijzer provided an opportunity to explore the possible contribution that a new communication technology could have on citizen involvement in political debate. | Cees Leeuwis; Jeffrey van Rossum; Margreet Noordhof; Nicholas Jankowski; Peter Martin | 12 | 1999 | $1.68 Add |
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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! That Men May FightWomen and Military Service during the World Wars From: Material Traces of War |
This chapter describes what some Canadian women did in the military along with how they pushed and lobbied for expanded roles. From military nurses in both wars, to paramilitary auxiliary corps, … | Krista Cooke; Molly McCullough; Stacey Barker | 71 | 2021 | $7.10 Add |
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From ![]() “.. .That Sweep of Savage Splendour… “A Century of Australians in Antarctica |
Initially lured south perhaps as much by virtue of opportunistic geography as their undoubted ability, a number of remarkable individuals from that era would in time forge an enduring link … | Alasdair McGregor | 14 | 2004 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() The 1956-1957 Refugee Movement in the Context of Hungarian Immigration to Canada since the Late 19th Century |
The main purpose of this paper is to examine the 1956 refugee experience, place it in the context of a century and a half of Hungarian immigration to Canada, and establish to what extent and in … | Nándor Dreisziger | 29 | 2010 | $3.77 Add |
![]() The 1956 Hungarian RevolutionHungarian and Canadian Perspectives |
In October 1956, a spontaneous uprising took Hungarian Communist authorities by surprise, prompting Soviet authorities to invade the country. After a few days of violent fighting, the revolt was … | Christopher Adam; Judy Young; Leslie Laczko; Tibor Egervari | 306 | 2010 | View |















