The stability of slopes / E. N. Bromhead

• Record Nr.: UNISA990001205200203316
• Autore: BROMHEAD, E. N.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London [etc.] : Blackie academic & professional, 1995
• ISBN: 0-7514-0275-3
• Edizione: [2. ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: XI, 411 p. ; 25 cm
• Disciplina: 624.151
• Soggetti: Geotecnica
• Collocazione: 624.151 BRO
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Translating Japanese texts / / Kirsten Refsing and Lita Lundquist

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460866703321
• Autore: Refsing Kirsten
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Copenhagen, Denmark : , : Museum Tusculanum Press, , 2011; ©2011
• ISBN: 87-635-3730-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (195 p.)
• Disciplina: 428.02956
• Soggetti: Japanese language - Translating; Japanese language - Written Japanese - Translating; Electronic books.
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Front cover""; ""Titlepage""; ""Colophon""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ; ""List of Grammatical Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""The Japanese - English language pair""; ""Units of meaning, units of translation""; ""Strategies and choices""; ""Organisation of the book""; ""Part I: The Source Text and Global Strategies for its Translation""; ""Chapter 1. The source text as text""; ""1.1 Texts as coherent linguistic units""; ""1.1.1 The unit of the text""; ""1.1.2 Inferences""; ""1.2 Texts as mental representations""; ""Chapter 2. Analysis and understanding of the source text""; ""2.1 Questions to be addressed when analysing a source text""""Checklist of questions""; ""1. Topic""; ""2. Contextual anchoring""; ""3. Sender's attitude""; ""4. Argumentative direction""; ""5. Sender's intention""; ""6. Function""; ""7. Text genre""; ""8. Explicit coherence between sentences""; ""2.2 Analysing a Japanese source text""; ""Topic""; ""Contextual Anchoring""; ""Sender's attitude""; ""Argumentative direction""; ""Sender's intention""; ""Function""; ""Genre""; ""Explicit coherence between sentences""; ""Chapter 3. Strategies for transferring the source text""; ""3.1 Global strategies""""3.1.1 Examples of choosing a global strategy""; ""3.1.2 Respecting genre""; ""3.2 Local strategies""; ""3.3 Losses and gains""; ""Part II: Units of Translation and Local Strategies for their Transfer""; ""Chapter 4. Micro-units I: The word and beneath""; ""4.1 Semes""; ""4.2 Morphemes""; ""4.3 Words and compound words""; ""4.4 Fixed terms""; ""4.5 Culturemes""; ""Chapter 5. Micro-units II: Phrases""; ""5.1 Syntactic phrases""; ""5.2 Fixed expressions""; ""5.2.1 Collocations""; ""Noun-verb collocations:""; ""Adjective-noun collocations:""; ""5.2.2 Idioms""; ""Verbs:""""Adverbs:""; ""Phrases:""; ""5.2.3 Metaphors""; ""5.2.4 Proverbs and sayings""; ""Chapter 6. Macro-units of translation: The sentence and beyond""; ""6.1 Sentences""; ""6.2 Linked sentences""; ""6.3 Referential coherence - simple anaphors""; ""6.3.1 Unfaithful anaphors""; ""6.3.2 Resumptive anaphors""; ""6.4 Semantic, or rhetorical coherence""; ""6.5 Connectors""; ""6.6 Argumentative markers""; ""6.7 Mental space builders""; ""Part III: The Target Text and its Revision""; ""Chapter 7. Mega-units and revision of the target text""; ""7.1 Textual fit and intertextuality""; ""7.1.1 Not respecting intertextuality in Language 2""""7.2 Genre""; ""7.3 Text types""; ""7.4 The final touch""; ""Postscript""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""Back cover ""