Title 11th Conference on British and American Studies : embracing multitudes of meaning / edited by Marinela Burada, Oana Tatu, Raluca Sinu

Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; INTRODUCTION; ON THE EASTERN VS. WESTERN CARIBBEANCREOLES DIVIDE; OBVIATION AND/OR OBVIATIVEEFFECTS CROSS-LINGUISTICALLY; ROMANIAN UNIVERSAL AND EPISTEMICFREE CHOICE ITEMS; CARDINAL-NOUN CONSTRUCTIONSARE PARTITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS; ON SCRAMBLING AND DIFFERENTIAL OBJECTMARKING WITH A FOCUS ON GERMANAND ROMANIAN (WITH A FOCUSON INDEFINITE DIRECT OBJECTS); ON THE CURRENT USE OF ROMANIAN TERMSDENOTING PHYSICAL DEFECTS; MAPPING CITATION PRACTICESIN ACADEMIC WRITING; PHONOLOGICAL FEATURESOF MULTICULTURAL LONDON ENGLISH; ARGUMENTATION IN NEWSPAPER ARTICLES THE ACQUISITION OF SCALAR IMPLICATURESIN CHILD ROMANIANEVENT CONFLATION IN CHILD ROMANIAN; MODAL MEANINGS IN EARLY CHILD ENGLISH; INTERFACES IN ENGLISHAS A SECOND LANGUAGE; CHAPTER II; INTRODUCTION; TRANSLATING MODERN TEXTS; CROSSING THE BRIDGE; "PUNDERING" OVER PUNSIN THE TRANSLATION OF MICHEL FABER'STHE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE; MULTITUDES OF MEANING, COMPENSATIONAND TRANSLATION LOSSIN P.G. WODEHOUSE'S RIGHT HO, JEEVES; FEATURES OF CONTEXTUALIZATIONIN THE DICTIONARY OF THE ROMANIANLANGUAGE PROJECT; CHAPTER III; INTRODUCTION THE SATANIC VERSES, MULTICULTURALISM, AND THE MULTIPLICITY OF PERSPECTIVESIN BRITISH LITERATURE AT THE ENDOF THE 1980STHE OUTSTRIPING AND THE FORESHORTENINGAS LITERARY POSSIBILITIESOF CONTEXTUALIZATION; INSCRIBING SPACE AND IDENTITYWITHIN PRIMARY NEXUSES; VISIONS OF COMMUNITYIN THOMAS PYNCHON'S VINELAND; SITUATING THE BLACK SELF; BLACK BRITISHNESS IN DIRAN ADEBAYO'SSOME KIND OF BLACK; NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVESIN KATHRYN STOCKETT'S THE HELP; TOTALITARIANISM IN AND BEYOND CONTEXTWITH ORWELL AND IONESCO; CIRCASSIAN MINORITY; CONTEXT, MEANING AND IMAGEIN THE MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATEDMANUSCRIPTS THE MEANING OF MAGIC REVELATIONAT KING ARTHUR'S COURTLIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; SUBJECT INDEX Summary The present volume includes a selection of twenty-nine papers by academics, and senior and junior researchers who came together within the framework of the 11th Conference on British and American Studies. Structured into three sections, the contributions included here display a wide array of topics and methodologies illustrating a variety of scholarly pursuits and approaches. These, in their turn, reflect the issues which constitute the complex nature of language and culture, and their mutual relationship. The authors' interests encompass aspects related to the structural and rhetorical organi Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Sociolinguistics -- Great Britain -- Congresses Sociolinguistics -- United States -- Congresses Linguistics. Translation & interpretation. Literature & literary studies. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Sociolinguistics Great Britain United States Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Burada, Marinela, editor. Tatu, Oana, editor. Sinu, Raluca, editor ISBN 1322607699 9781322607696 9781443872911 1443872911

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