Semantics and Pragmatics of False Friends
Pedro J. Chamizo-Dominguez
This book approaches the topic of false friends from a theoretical perspective, arguing that false friends carry out a positive role as a cognitive device, mainly in literature and jokes, and suggesting some pragmatic strategies in order to restore the original sense of a text/utterance when a given translator (or a foreign speaker) falls victim& nbsp; to false friends. This theoretical account is successively verified by appealing to texts from the fields of literature, science, philosophy, journalism, and everyday speech.
Book 7 of the Routledge Studies in Linguistics series
- ISBN: 0415957206
- ISBN-13: 9780415957205
- Author : Pedro J. Chamizo-Dominguez
- Language : English
- Format: Hardcover - Search for other formats
- Publication Date: 7/1/2007
- Publisher Imprint: Routledge
- Price ($AUD): $237.95
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