Translation in Global News

By Esperanca Bielsa, Susan Bassnett

The mass media are of paramount importance in the formulation and transmission of messages about key developments of global significance, such as terrorism and the...

September 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40972-8 (Routledge)

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Translation goes to the Movies

By Michael Cronin

This highly accessible introduction to translation theory, written by a leading author in the field, uses the genre of film to bring the main themes in translation...

September 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42286-4 (Routledge)

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By Cedric Boeckx

This volume brings together various strands of research focusing on aspects of the syntax of agreement, and the role that agreement plays in linguistic theory....

September 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96254-4 (Routledge)

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The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English

Edited by Tom Dalzell

The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English offers the ultimate record of modern American Slang.

The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the...

September 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37182-7 (Routledge)

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The Design of Leadership Style

By Jonathan Charteris-Black

With the crisis of leadership in the western democracies, there has been a growth of interest in how leaders outside of the west emerge and...

September 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48650-7 (Routledge)

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Global Linguistic Flows

Hip Hop Cultures, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language

By H. Samy Alim, Awad Ibrahim, Alastair Pennycook

Located at the intersection of sociolinguistics and Hip Hop Studies, this cutting-edge book moves around the world – spanning Africa, Asia, Australia, the Americas and...

September 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-6285-0 (Routledge)

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By Dianne Elizabeth Jonas

September 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97732-6 (Routledge)

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Linguistic Landscape

Expanding the Scenery

Edited by Elana Shohamy, Durk Gorter

In this comprehensive and pioneering volume, language scholars from around the world examine the "linguistic landscape" from multiple perspectives - theoretical, methodological, and critical. Written...

August 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-98873-5 (Routledge)

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Origins

A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English

By Eric Partridge

This dictionary gives the origins of some 20,000 items from the modern English vocabulary, discussing them in groups that make clear the connections between words...

August 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47433-7 (Routledge)

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Framing Discourse on the Environment

A Critical Discourse Approach

By Richard Alexander

In this study, Alexander presents a series of original and empirically based case studies of the language and discourse involved in the discussion of environmental and...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99123-0 (Routledge)

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