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UNINA9910784684703321 |
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Titolo |
Rethinking ethnicity [[electronic resource] ] : majority groups and dominant minorities / / edited by Eric P. Kaufmann |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004 |
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1-134-37628-6 |
9786610225163 |
1-280-22516-5 |
0-203-56339-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (252 p.) |
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Classificazione |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Cultural pluralism |
Ethnicity |
Majorities |
Minorities |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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; Introduction : dominant ethnicity : from background to foreground / Eric P. Kaufmann -- Ethnic cores and dominant ethnies / Anthony D. Smith -- ; The identity and changing status of former elite minorities : the contrasting cases of North Indian Muslims and American WASPs / Theodore P. Wright, Jr. -- Dominant ethnicity and dominant nationhood / Andreas Wimmer -- ; The decline of the WASP in the United States and Canada -- Eric P. Kaufmann -- 'Pures laines' Quebecois : the concealed ethnicity of dominant majorities / Danielle Juteau -- ; The concept of 'dominant ethnicity' in the case of France / Dominique Schnapper -- ; The strange death of Protestant Britain / Steve Bruce -- Russians as a dominant ethnie / Geoffrey Hosking -- Citizenship, immigration and ethnic hegemony in Japan / Keiko Yamanaka -- Towards a theory of ethnocratic regimes : learning from the Judaization of Israel/Palestine / Oren Yiftachel, As'ad Ghanem -- "Majority ethnic' claims and authoritarian nationalism : the case of Hindutva / Chetan Bhatt -- ; The dynamics of ethnic minority domination in Fiji / Ralph R. Premdas. |
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Globalization and migration are pressuring nations around the world to change their ethnic self-definition and to treasure diversity not homogeneity. This book explores the growing gap between modern nations and their dominant ethnic groups. |
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UNINA9910781479203321 |
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Autore |
Wilss Wolfram |
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Knowledge and skills in translator behavior [[electronic resource] /] / Wolfram Wilss |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c1996 |
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1-283-17445-6 |
9786613174451 |
90-272-8354-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Benjamins translation library, , 0929-7316 ; ; v. 15 |
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Translating and interpreting - Psychological aspects |
Discourse analysis |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-249) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS IN TRANSLATOR BEHAVIOR; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER I. Translation Studies - Scope and Challenges; CHAPTER II. Theoretical and Empirical Aspects of Translation Studies; CHAPTER III. Translation as Knowledge-Based Activity; CHAPTER IV. Context, Culture, Compensation. Three basic orientations in translation; CHAPTER V. Translation as Meaning-Based Information Processing; CHAPTER VI. The Translation Process and Translation Procedures; CHAPTER VII. The Role of the Translator in the Translation Process |
CHAPTER VIII. Discourse Linguistics and TranslationCHAPTER IX. Translation as Decision-Making and Choice; CHAPTER X. Translation Teaching. A practice-oriented approach; CHAPTER XI. Human Translation and Machine Translation. A comparison; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index |
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This book represents an approach which is intended to give readers a general insight into what translators really do and to explain the concepts and tools of the trade, bearing in mind that translation cannot be reduced to simple principles that can easily be separated from each other and thus be handled in isolation. On the whole, the book is more process- than product-centred. Translation is seen as an activity with an intentional and a social dimension establishing links between a source-language community and a target-language community and therefore requiring a specific kind of communicat |
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