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  • Markedness Theory

    Series series Sound and Meaning: The Roman Jakobson Series in Linguistics and Poetics
    Edna Andrews clarifies and extends the work of Roman Jakobson to develop a theory of invariants in language by distinguishing between general and contextual meaning in morphology and semantics. Markedness theory, as Jakobson conceived it, is a qualitative theory of oppositional binary relations. Andrews shows how markedness theory enables a linguist to precisely define the systemically given ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Language and Brain

    Edited by Edna Andrews, Swathi Kiran ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The topic of language and brain is a large and significant area of research and study, and this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the field. Bringing together contributions from an interdisciplinary team of internationally-renowned scholars, it focuses on important theoretical positions that have changed the study of language and brain in the first two decades of the 21st century. It ... Read more

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  • Neuroscience and Multilingualism

    by Edna Andrews ...
    How are languages represented in the human brain? Ideas from neuroscience have increasingly been applied to the study of language, exploring the neural processes involved in acquisition, maintenance and loss of language and languages, and the interaction between languages in bi- and multilingual speakers. With a sharp focus on multilingualism, this culmination of cutting-edge research sheds light ... Read more

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  • Russian Translation

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    Russian Translation: Theory and Practice is a comprehensive practical course in translation for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Russian. The course aims to provide intensive exposure with a view to mastering translation from Russian into English while carefully analyzing the specific problems that arise in the translation process.Offering over 75 practical translation exercises ... Read more

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