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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Language

    by Adam Noel Ledgeway, Martin Maiden ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This handbook brings together in a single volume detailed accounts of all facets of the Italian language from a wide range of perspectives. Data from Italian have always been prominent in the linguistic literature, thanks to the language's richly documented diachronic and synchronic variation. This perennially fertile yet still under-explored testing ground has a central role to play in ... Read more

    $197.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 1, Structures

    Edited by Martin Maiden, John Charles Smith, Adam Ledgeway ...
    This Cambridge History is the most comprehensive survey of the history of the Romance languages ever published in English. It engages with new and original topics that reflect wider-ranging comparative concerns, such as the relation between diachrony and synchrony, morphosyntactic typology, pragmatic change, the structure of written Romance, and lexical stability. Volume 1 is organized around the ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics

    Edited by Adam Ledgeway, Martin Maiden ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The Romance languages and dialects constitute a treasure trove of linguistic data of profound interest and significance. Data from the Romance languages have contributed extensively to our current empirical and theoretical understanding of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics. Written by a team of world-renowned scholars, ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 2, Contexts

    Edited by Martin Maiden, John Charles Smith, Adam Ledgeway ...
    What is the origin of the Romance languages and how did they evolve? When and how did they become different from Latin, and from each other? Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages offers fresh and original reflections on the principal questions and issues in the comparative external histories of the Romance languages. It is organised around the two key themes of influences and ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax

    Edited by Adam Ledgeway, Ian Roberts ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Change is an inherent feature of all aspects of language, and syntax is no exception. While the synchronic study of syntax allows us to make discoveries about the nature of syntactic structure, the study of historical syntax offers even greater possibilities. Over recent decades, the study of historical syntax has proven to be a powerful scientific tool of enquiry with which to challenge and ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

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    A Philosophical Lexicon

    Edited by Barbara Cassin, Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, Michael Wood ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    Characters in some languages, particularly Hebrew and Arabic, may not display properly due to device limitations. Transliterations of terms appear before the representations in foreign characters.This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy—or any—translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Umberto Eco

    Edited by Sara Beardsworth, Randall E. Auxier ...
    Series series Library of Living Philosophers
    The Philosophy of Umberto Eco stands out in the Library of Living Philosophers series as the volume on the most interdisciplinary scholar hitherto and probably the most widely translated. The Italian philosopher’s name and works are well known in the humanities, both his philosophical and literary works being translated into fifteen or more languages. Eco is a founder of modern semiotics and ... Read more

    $136.79 USD

  • Umberto Eco

    Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction

    by Michael Caesar ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco - one of the most important writers in Europe today. ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

    Fourth Edition

    by Roland Greene ...
    Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised and updated ... Read more

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  • Basic Notions of Translation Theory

    Semiotics, linguistics, psychology, for B.A. students

    by Bruno Osimo ...
    Series Book 7 - Translation Studies
    This book reflects my experience as a translation scholar, and a translation teacher, and a translator from Russian. The knowledge of the Russian language allowed me to read (and translate into Italian) crucial authors like Popovič, Lyudskanov, Torop, Revzin and Rozentsveyg. Since not many Western translation scholars know them, we get as a consequence a translation theory which is split between ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of Translation

    Contributions to Translation Science in History: Authors, Ideas, Debate

    by Bruno Osimo ...
    Series Book 15 - Translation Studies
    A guide to authors who have made a contribution to the theory of sense in history and, ultimately, to translation theory. The book is divided into 5 chapters: Signification, Communication, Mind, Culture, Criticism ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Conversation

    by Peter Burke ...
    The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years.Drawing on the work of sociolinguists and others, Burke uses their concept while reserving the right to qualify their theories where the historical record makes this seem appropriate. Like the sociolinguists, Burke ... Read more

    $21.00 USD