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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818622503321

Titolo

10th Conference on British and American Studies - Crossing Boundaries : approaches to the contemporary multicultural discoures / / edited by Marinela Burada and Oana Tatu ; contributors, Zsuzsanna Ajtony [and twenty-five others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-6312-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Disciplina

306.440941

Soggetti

Sociolinguistics - Great Britain

Sociolinguistics - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; INTRODUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC FEATURES IN FOUR EASTERNCARIBBEAN ENGLISH-LEXIFIED CREOLES; ON SOME FEATURES OF THE VOCALIC SYSTEMOF KENYAN ENGLISH; DEGREES OF NOUNINESSOF ROMANIAN CARDINALS; IMPLICATIVE VERBS AND THEIR SUBJUNCTIVECOMPLEMENTS IN ROMANIAN; POSITIVE POLARITY ITEMS IN ROMANIAN; A SEMIC ANALYSIS OF TERMS DENOTINGPHYSICAL DEFECTS IN ROMANIAN; THE DICTIONARY REVIEW IN ROMANIAN; CHAPTER II; INTRODUCTION; 'GROUNDED THEORY'; ROLE-PLAYS IN TEACHING ENGLISHFOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES; ENGLISH FOR HORTICULTURE; SEMANTIC RELATIONSIN E-COMMERCE TERMINOLOGY

ASPECTS OF TRANSFER IN FOREIGNLANGUAGE ACQUISITIONTHE ACQUISITION OF DRESS AND TRAPBY ROMANIAN LEARNERS OF ENGLISH; REVIEWING A TRANSLATIONALLEARNER CORPUS FOR NATURALNESS; CHAPTER III; INTRODUCTION; LINGUISTIC 'SILENCE'IN ENGLISH AND SERBIAN; LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATIONSOF BRITISH AND AMERICAN CULTURAL SPACEIN G. B. SHAW'S THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE; HAVE YOU SEEN THE FILM?SUBTITLING REFERENCESTO FILMS AND



ACTORS; THE BEAUTY OF SUBTITLINGAND THE BEAST IN DUBBING; CULTURAL DIFFERENCES; REPRESENTATION OF WOMENIN ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN TABLOIDS

FROM MULTICULTURALISMTO INTERCULTURALISMIN THREE BRITISHCONTEMPORARY NOVELSGRAHAM SWIFT'S CITY, OR THE DARK SIDEOF CIVILISATION AND MULTICULTURALISM; CONSTRUCTING ROUND FEMALEVS. FLAT MALE CHARACTERS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; SUBJECT INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book consists of a collection of papers on specific issues centred around three broad areas of scholarly interest: native language analysis, foreign language acquisition and training, and cultural and literary studies. It provides a concise snapshot of the multiplicity of vantage points from which language, literature and culture-related phenomena can be studied and accounted for. The unifying principle behind the variety of issues and approaches illustrated here is the overarching notio...