Communication Across Cultures: Translation Theory and Contrastive Text Linguistics (Exeter Language and Lexicography) - Hardcover

Hatim, Prof. Basil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0859894908 ISBN 13: 9780859894906

Publisher: University of Exeter, 1997

Synopsis

While the literature on either contrastive linguistics or discourse analysis has grown immensely in the last twenty years, very little of it has ventured into fusing the two perspectives. Bearing in mind that doing discourse analysis without a contrastive base is as incomplete as doing contrastive analysis without a discourse base, the specific aim of this book is to argue that translation can add depth and breadth to both contrastive linguistics as well as to discourse analysis.

Authentic data from both spoken and written English is used throughout to add clarity to theoretical insights gained from the study of discourse processing. Each aspect of the model proposed for the analysis of texts is related separately to a problem of language processing and in domains as varied as translation, interpreting, language teaching etc. The global objectives pursued in this volume are the training of future linguists and the sensitization of users of language in general to the realities of discourse.

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About the Author

Basil Hatim is Professor in the Department of Arabic Studies at the American University of Sharjah. He has lectured widely in translation theory at universities throughout the UK, Europe and the Middle East, and has published extensively on the applications of text linguistics to translation theory and practice.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Exeter
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0859894908
• ISBN 13: 9780859894906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 252