Taylor & Francis

Semantics and Pragmatics of False Friends - Hardback

Edition: 1st Edition
Subjects: Literature, Literature: history & criticism
ISBN13: 9780415957205
Published: 19 Jul 2007

Format - Hardback
By Pedro J. Chamizo-Domínguez

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Semantics and Pragmatics of False Friends - Hardback

Regular price A$252.00
Sale price A$252.00 Regular price A$315.00
Product description

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 to false friends. This theoretical account is successively verified by appealing to texts from the fields of literature, science, philosophy, journalism, and everyday speech.

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