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Resumen: "(...) People are perceived through a "lens" of gender polarisation and assigned to apparently natural categories accordingly. On the basis of this gender assignment, naturalised norms and expectations about verbal behaviour behaviour are imposed upon people. There is a strong tendency for gender stereotyping to set in. Stereotyping involves a reductive tendency. Like caricatures, stereotypes focus obsessively on certain characteristics, real or imagined, and exaggerate them".

Resumen: Apart from referring to a geographical or physical border, the notion of frontera has also become a metaphorical or psychological construct which represents any situation of contrast, such as belonging to two different national, cultural or linguistic communities. Latino writers in the United States live and write on the frontera. The coming together of two cultures forges a new hybrid identity which fights against essentialism and homogenization. This hybrid identity is reflected in these writers' language, a border tongue constantly switching from English to Spanish. Sandra Cisneros is one of those Latina writers who resort to code-switching as an identity hallmark. By introducing Spanish words, phrases or syntactic constructions into her English texts, Cisneros tries to evoke the feeling of inhabiting two worlds which can be conflicting and complementary at the same time. Departing from the notion of frontera, several translations of Cisneros's works are analysed, paying special attention to those aspects related to identity and language. Particularly, I focus on the Mexican Spanish, Galician and Catalan versions of The House on Mango Street, the translation of Woman Hollering Creek into Mexican Spanish, the Catalan versions of several short stories from Woman Hollering Creek and the Galician translation of Loose Woman. In all the analysed versions, the translators use strategies which reflect the border identity present in the source text, such as the resource to code-switching and typographical markers or the use of calques and other borrowings, dialectalisms, and non-standard vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar.

Resumen: La traducción y los espacios es un libro que supone una valiosa aportación al pensamiento contemporáneo sobre aquellos viajes que hacemos con las palabras mientras éstas viajan entre las lenguas, a través de límites culturales y temporales. África Vidal se apoya en la investigación llevada a cabo últimamente en los estudios de traducción, la literatura comparada, la llamada world literature, la literatura de viajes y los estudios culturales para plantear importantes cuestiones sobre la naturaleza misma del acto de traducir.

Resumen: A variety of translation issues are addressed, including: cultural differences, register and dialect, grammatical differences, genre, technical, scientific and legal texts, journalistic and informative texts, literary and dramatic texts. Each chapter includes suggestions for classroom discussion and a set of practical exercises designed to explore issues and consolidate skills.

Resumen: "The present study tends to show how culture of a community is reflected and shaped through proverbs used there. Proverbs, according to the Cambridge International Dictionary, is "a short sentence, etc. usually known by many people, stating something commonly experienced or giving advice". They show the attitude of the community toward a particular issue, such as sex, race, job, etc. Hence, proverbs people use are good indications of their concern of the reality and the world. They show people's attitude and classification of the reality".

Resumen: "The failure of the first and longest-lasting Marxist social model in history, with which the Soviet Union experimented for almost 75 years, brought Russia and 14 other newly independent republics back to the realities of the modern world with all the good and bad that it has. People were suddenly forced to embrace a whole new world of economic, political, legal and cultural concepts, many of which not only had no name in the Russian. (...) lAs a result, the Russian language was flooded of thousands (some say up to 10.000) of new foreign words, almost all of them taken from American English".

Resumen: For political and military considerations, English has become an international language used in all aspects of life: the language of advanced science, the internet, and business communication. Both English and Arabic are two of the official languages used in the United Nations for meetings, discussions, negotiation and documentation. The above mentioned fields might be free of culture and religion because the language of science, for instance, is direct and the action is the most important element of meaning which is more important than the doer. Obviously, the same thing is applicable on the language of business or stock markets in London, New York and Dubai. But when it comes to the language of politics and mass media which processes politics, the linguistic situation becomes different due to the excessive use of cultural and religious metaphors and religious terminologies deep-rooted in most classical and modern languages like Arabic which is the language of the holy Koran followed by one billion and half people. This number is expected to rise sharply due to the high birth rate in the Muslim World as this is recommended by Islamic teachings. This means that Arabic will increasingly spoken by a large number of people worldwide. The misinterpretation of certain Arabic, political and religious terminologies results in communicative problems for politicians and journalists who could be native speakers of Arabic or English. For the purpose of investigating this communicative problem, we collected data from 10 journalists who were Arab, British and American. They were chosen randomly and asked about the terrorism connotations of frequently used Arabic terms in mass media like: islamist, martyr, strugglers, Jihad: holy war, sacrifice, Martyr operation, guerillas, etc. Those religious, political and conceptually loaded words were described, classified and codified as the most terrorism words and the most problematic words for western journalists and/or politicians. The study has revealed that they are so because they seem to represent a linguistic interface and a big aggressive concept as seen by western journalists. On top of that, they are loaded with culturally bound connotations, images and signals. On the contrary, the Arab journalists did not see these words in the way of their western colleagues did.

Resumen: Esta obra abarca la totalidad de la experiencia humana, de películas extranjeras a filosofía, para demostrar por qué la traducción está en el centro de lo que hacemos y de quién somos. Entre muchas otras cosas, David Bellos se pregunta: ¿Qué diferencia hay entre traducir unas palabras coloquiales espontáneas y traducir Madame Bovary? ¿Cómo se traduce un chiste? ¿Qué diferencia hay entre una lengua materna y una aprendida? ¿Puede traducirse entre dos lenguas cualesquiera o sólo entre algunas? ¿Qué es lo que sucede en realidad cuando los líderes mundiales hablan en la ONU? ¿Pueden las máquinas llegar a sustituir a los traductores humanos, y, si no, por qué no? La pregunta más importante que se plantea es la siguiente: ¿cómo sabemos con certeza que hemos comprendido lo que dicen los demás, en nuestro idioma o en cualquier otro? Sorprendente, ingenioso y escrito con gran joie de vivre, este libro trata de nosotros y de cómo nos entendemos.

Resumen: Although fuzziness is one of the innate characteristics of language, shared by both Chinese and English, there do exist apparent differentiations between them as far as their roles in aesthetic-effect-generating, representation mode, application field suitability and aesthetic impact are concerned, which has remained a great challenge and regret in either English to Chinese (E-C) or Chinese to English (C-E) translation, particularly in the latter. It's no exaggeration to say that translation is a profession with no lack of regret and translators are professional regret-tasters. The most impressive regret in C-E translation might lie in the fact that the talent and capability of the translators is painfully restricted in reproducing and conveying the aesthetic effect of Chinese fuzzy expressions. As an artistically conceived language, Chinese invites macro-induction in terms of linguistic features while English, being logic-oriented, analysis-based and hypotaxis-dependent, is largely ignorant of what is called macro-induction. Hence abundant aesthetic genius of Chinese fuzzy expressions can hardly find its way into the English version. It can be said that generally the process of C-E translation is one of complementing continuously "meaning blank", of changing "indeterminacy of meaning" into "determinacy of meaning", with the E-C translation as the opposite. Many language problems in communication are essentially closely related to nationality psychologic archetype complex, which may be a significant try in translation study.

Resumen: "Si observamos cualquier lengua desde una perspectiva amplia, el neologismo parece ser la fuente creadora por excelencia. Ya sea por la vía del préstamo o por la invención, todas y cada una de las palabras tienen su historia, esa génesis y evolución que lleva a algunas a la muerte y consagra a otras en el corpus léxico para establecerse por un lapso imposible de determinar".

Resumen: En esta obra original, que contó desde su inicio con el apoyo de la Unión Latina, Sergio Corrêa da Costa ha reunido y comentado una colección de dieciséis mil ejemplos de usos de lo que él llama las "palabras sin fronteras", es decir, aquellos vocablos que han sobrepasado las fronteras de los países en que nacieron y se han convertido en portadoras de una especie de denominación de origen. Estas palabras, que pueden designar tanto nociones abstractas o funciones, como objetos usuales o indicaciones de la mayor trivialidad, se dispersan un poco por todas partes y acaban por constituir una especie de "vocabulario sin fronteras" que crece sin cesar y acerca a las distintas culturas. "Es un libro de lingüística, cuyo autor no es un lingüista, sino más bien un humanista". El autor se ha interesado únicamente en las palabras trasladadas de una lengua a otras, ya sea conservándola intacta, ya sea con modificaciones formales poco importantes. Para no convertir en demasiado técnica la presentación tipográfica de los ejemplos de uso de estos préstamos lingüísticos, las distintas variantes existentes en ciertos países van a continuación de las palabras y expresiones, detrás de una barra diagonal, sin otra distinción cualitativa.

Resumen: Los elementos del habla, los sonidos del lenguaje, los procedimientos y conceptos gramaticales, los tipos de estructura lingüística, las transformaciones históricas del lenguaje, sus leyes fonéticas, la mutua influencia de las lenguas, las relaciones entre lenguaje, raza y cultura, las existentes entre lenguaje y literatura, son otras tantas cuestiones que se desarrollan en ete libro de Edward Sapir.

Resumen: Is That a Fish in Your Ear? ranges across the whole of human experience, from foreign films to philosophy, to show why translation is at the heart of what we do and who we are. Among many other things, David Bellos asks: What's the difference between translating unprepared natural speech and translating Madame Bovary? How do you translate a joke? What's the difference between a native tongue and a learned one? Can you translate between any pair of languages, or only between some? What really goes on when world leaders speak at the UN? Can machines ever replace human translators, and if not, why? But the biggest question Bellos asks is this: How do we ever really know that we've understood what anybody else says-in our own language or in another? This book is all about how we comprehend other people and shows us how, ultimately, translation is another name for the human condition.

Resumen: This work presents an up-to-date treatment of the principal issues pertaining lo court interpreting in the United States. It provides a synthesis of information regarding court interpreting, based upon a variety of published and unpublished sources, many of them obscure or otherwise difficult to access. The approach is by necessity interdisciplinary, dealing with languages in contact, bilingualism, dialectal varieties of language, the interpreting process, and legal issues.

Resumen: Public signs refer to the type of sign posted in public places to alert readers to certain information. They constitute a special genre in terms of language use, communicative functions and cultural features. The translation of public signs from Chinese into English presents a number of unique challenges. This article concentrates on issues relating to information loss and change of appellative effect in chinese-english public sign translation based on actual examples collected in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Resumen: This versatile and easy-to-use guide helps you compose well-written, effective letters in minutes for virtually every business and personal situation. Conveniently organized into 40 topics and completely reproducible, this one-of-a-kind reference contains ready-to-use model letters for almost every occasion. For example, you get model letters on such topics as...Acceptance Complaints Collection Advice Reports and proposals Congratulation References Appreciation Sympathy Invitations Refusals Fundraising What's more, a special "thesaurus" section included within each topic contains scores of interchangeable key words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs to let you tailor each model letter to the exact personality and style you wish to convey in "any" situation- from casual to formal, distant to friendly, traditional to modern. Plus, you get three appendices that give you tips on letter format and construction, as well as pointers on tone, attitude, grammar, and achieving clarity and precision in your writing.

Resumen: The cross-cultural pragmatics literature has paid considerable attention to the various strategies that speakers deploy when performing the speech act of requesting. This is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one's interlocutor(s) has been seen to be subject to cross-gender and cross-linguistic/cultural variation in terms of use and interpretation. To our knowledge, however, there are virtually no contrastive studies on Peninsular Spanish and British English within this field. Wanting to address this, and whilst acknowledging the limitations of discourse completion tests (DCTs), we employed one such test as a suitable tool for obtaining a large amount of data from male and female Spanish and British undergraduates (aged 19-25). The data was analyzed and treated not as authentic speech/discourse but as reflecting informants' perceptions and beliefs about appropriate linguistic behaviour in the performance of requests in different situations controlled for power and social distance. Thus, ours is a pragmatic approach that attempts to account for these perceptions and beliefs, which are included in the "assumptions about social roles, positions, rights and obligations [that] are part of the (usually unstated) background knowledge that is routinely brought to bear on the interpretation of utterances" (Cameron 1998: 445).

Resumen: En 1999 nació en Francia una institución dedicada al cuidado de la lengua francesa y encargada de "castigar" con sus premios a aquellas personas o instituciones que maltratan el idioma en beneficio del inglés.

Resumen: El fin de siglo inglés nos deja, a través del New/Oxford English Dictionary que funciona como perfecto catalizador de discursos de más amplia trascendencia, un concepto de lengua inglesa que habrá de determinar la concepción que de ella tengamos eruditos y profanos, hasta la reciente crisis de los años setenta. Lo dialectal, lo oral, lo marginal, excluído por heterogéneo y ordinario, a partir de lo que fueron meras opciones de salida, resulta desde entonces menos claramente inglés. El modelo, limitado en sus origenes temporal, social y geográficamente, sufre un proceso de desnaturalización histórica, según el cual se consolida una construcción teórica de identidad que se exporta como estable, permanente o eterna.

Resumen: Propone un repaso de los conceptos sociales y lingüísticos en los que se basan las distintas ramas del lenguaje inclusivo y de las normas gramaticales que lo rigen, así como el planteo de un análisis contrastivo entre los idiomas español e inglés a partir de ejemplos tomados de obras y personas reales.

Resumen: Durante el VI Congreso Latinoamericano de Traducción e Interpretación realizado en abril de este año, tuvimos el placer de contar con la presencia de un invitado de lujo, Chris Kunz, quien se desempeña como docente en enseñanza de inglés como segunda lengua y lengua extranjera en la Argentina, Australia y el Reino Unido desde hace más de veinte años. Su presentación en el VI Congreso y su taller impartido en mayo fueron muy concurridos, pero todos nos quedamos con ganas de más. Por eso, desde la Comisión de Idioma Inglés queremos acercarles una entrevista mano a mano con Chris para conocer sus puntos de vista sobre la fonética inglesa y enseñanza del idioma inglés.

Resumen: An examination of American profanity from a psychological and linguistic perspective. Relates foul language use to such issues as censorship, the First Amendment , sexual harassment and obscene phone calls. Provides statistical information on cursing in film and among young people.

Resumen: "En esta comunicación, nuestro propósito principal es indagar en la cuestión del plurilingüismo literario intratextual según éste se manifiesta en una selección de relatos de la escritora chicana Sandra Cisneros (1954). El plurilingüismo literario nos enfrenta a ciertas preguntas que atañen al sentido y su expresión en el universo de la obra literaria: ¿Es posible expresar todos los sentidos en todas las lenguas? ¿Cómo se relaciona el escritor con la/s lengua/s en la/s que escribe? (...)".

Resumen: This article provides a critical overview of recent research on cross-cultural divergences between English, French and German academic writing, demonstrating its relevance to translation. The author starts by discussing Galtung’s notion of culture-specific intellectual styles. He then explores the relationship between composition teaching and writing style. This is followed by a detailed discussion of cross-language comparisons of various text types which lend evidence to significant differences between the linguacultures under survey. The resultant plurality of linguacultures, the author goes on to argue, must be preserved as a value in itself, and merits special attention on the part of the translator

Resumen: (...) "The very first job I did, the very first thing I published, was a translation from an old Norse text, an old Icelandic saga, a runic saga, and that task of translation was an eye-opener to me about the difficulties that are involved in translation. Because here I was, translating a work that had been written a thousand years before in a very very different society, and having to put it into an English that the late 20th. century British and American readers would understand, while at the same time trying to capture some of the social and political mores, and literaty mores, of the time en which the runic saga was written".

Resumen: El autor analiza el impacto que la traducción de los guiones de cine y televisión elaborados en inglés está teniento en la norma hablada o escrita del español peninsular.