In times of increasingly globalised criminal activities, this book investigates the discursive representations of crime and organised crime and looks at the translation of its complex definitions and notions from a multiple theoretical and methodological framework, encompassing studies in the field of linguistics, multimodal and discourse ...

What grammar should be taught to translators-to-be? Even though grammar is part of translation curricula, grammar teaching has been little discussed until now. The aim of this book is to fill the void by presenting studies by 16 specialists. They are divided in four themes reflecting four perspectives (translators, translation scholars, grammarians

The history of Translation Studies is full of striking comparisons used to describe bad translations. They range from the back of a tapestry to the sickly complexion of an invalid or to the image of a sinking ship – no matter what the image, these comparisons are used by translators to criticise their predecessors.

Translating can be playful, but can playful be translated? For translation experts, wordplay is the utmost challenge, whether it be a play on and with words (anagram, antanaclasis, pun, spoonerism, paronomasia...), a language play (portmanteau word, parodic subversion) or even a wordplay due to a language accident. This book provides a panorama...

Translation is everywhere today and is essential to allow people and cultures to communicate. Yet, this activity goes back thousands of years and it has not always assumed the same form, nor have the stakes always been the same. The history of translation, which is part and parcel of the discipline called "translation studies", makes it possible to

The majority of recent linguistic studies about causality contrast its linguistic expression with the best known philosophical and scientific conceptions. Here the choice is to limit oneself strictly to the linguistic (hence pre-philosophical and pre-scientific) basis of the notion of cause.

Elucidate the enigma of language fiction by determining its real criteria, after eliminating false beliefs - this is the goal of this book. Admittedly, the matter was closed for several decades, but closed on grounds that don't stand a linguistic-philosophical examination.

Despite the fact that translation plays a key role in news agencies' reporting of multilingual news, it has long been overlooked or simply ignored. This may be explained not only by journalists’ conceptions of the nature of translation, but also by the lack of contact between translation studies and communication studies.

The use of electronic corpora (or linguistic data banks) in translation and translation studies is more and more widespread.

This book provides a fine linguistic description of names referring to human beings in different ages of life (baby, child, etc.) and questions, along the way, how language conceptualizes facets constituting our identity (age, sex, occupation, ...).