Semantics and Pragmatics of False Friends
Semantics and Pragmatics of False Friends
ISBN: 9780415957205
出版社: Routledge
出版年: 2007-7
页数: 200
定价: $ 164.98
装帧: HRD
内容简介
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.