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The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English (Kindle Edition)

The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English

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“The charms of The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English bring to mind a younger brother with troubled friends who has memorized long stretches of dialogue from movies starring stoners or mobsters.” — The Nation, December 2008 Praise for The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, edited by Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor: ‘This dictionary informs, but it also entertains.’ Booklist ‘This dictionary is huge fun.’ The Times Literary Supplement ‘…no term is excluded because it might be considered offensive as a racial, ethnic, religious, sexual, or any kind of slur…’ Against the Grain ‘…the editors have succeeded in … observing high standards of lexicography while producing an accessible work.’ Choice ‘…you can dip in just about anywhere and enjoy the exuberant, endless display of human inventiveness with language.’ BOOKFORUM ‘Modern American Slang is an unbeatable bargain, soundly academic, a (more…)

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Translation: An Advanced Resource Book (Routledge Applied Linguistics) (Paperback)

Translation: An Advanced Resource Book (Routledge Applied Linguistics)

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‘To complement and enrich this truly innovative advanced resource book, there is a very useful website where students can browse in search of further text samples, translations, and updated information on developments and events pertaining to the discipline of Translation Studies.’ – The Linguist List

Translation: examines the theory and practice of translation from a variety of linguistic and cultural angles, including semantics, functional linguistics, corpus and cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, gender studies and postcolonialism draws on a wide range of languages, including French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian and Arabic explores material from a variety of sources, such as the Internet, advertisements, religious texts, literary and technical texts gathers together influential readings from the key names in the discipline, including James S. Holmes, George Steiner, Vinay and Darbelnet, Eugene Nida, Werner Koller and (more…)

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