Overview

While the literature on either contrastive linguistics or discourse analysis has grown immensely in the last 20 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, interpretation, 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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Author:   Prof. Basil Hatim
Publisher:   University of Exeter Press
Imprint:   University of Exeter Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.350kg
ISBN:  

9780859894975

ISBN 10:   0859894975
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   01 March 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Replaced By:   9781905816316
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Figures Preface Arabic Transliteration System Introduction 1. Contrastive Linguistic Decisions: the Need for Textual Competence 2. Foundation Disciplines 3. The Myth of the Single Register 4. Argumentation Across Cultures 5. Argumentation in Arabic Rhetoric 6. The Paragraph as a Unit of Text Structure 7. Background Information in Expository Texts 8. At the Interface Between Structure and Texture: the Textual Progression of Themes and Rhemes 9. Cataphora as a Textural Manifestation 10. Degree of Texture Explictiness 11. Emotiveness in Texts 12. Translating Direct Speech and the Dynamics of News Reporting 13. The Pragmatics of Politeness 14. Cultures in Contact 15. The Discourse of the Alienated 16. The Translation of Irony: a Discourse Perspective 17. The 'Other' Texts: Implications for Liaison Interpreting Glossary of Contrastive Text Linguistics and Translation Terms References Index

Reviews

Communication across Cultures is an excellent application of contrastive textology to translation across two distant languages, worlds, cultures, ideologies, environments, and religions. Hatim''s exposition is compelling and effective . . . The paperback edition is cheap enough to make this valuable book accessible to the wide number of people who ought to read it. The book will certainly inspire further research, particularly in relation to exploring Arabic approaches to the study of texts. -The Translator, 1999

Author Information

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 published extensively on the applications of text linguistics to translation theory and practice.

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