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What is the translation profession like? How can you get into the job market? What range of activities must translators cover? How many languages do they need to be fluent in? The significant contributions included in this book bridge the gap between theory and practice and offer new suggestions for analysing translation activity

Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work...

Centrado en ideas etológicas y el estudio de los animales en sus hábitats naturales, este diccionario es una guía que revela descubrimientos y teorías destinados a explicar el comportamiento de las especies infrahumanas. En él se comentan procesos orgánicos básicos como el hambre, la sed y el sueño, y a la vez temas más sociales, como por ejemplo el altruismo, la dominación y el comportamiento sexual. Asimismo, sociobiólogos y teóricos del aprendizaje. El texto que el lector tiene en sus manos es uno de los cuatro que se han basado en el famoso Enciclopedic Dictionary of...

One day some stretched-out gentlemen come and ask a father to be king. It seems a good opportunity, but in the end one must choose between being king and being a father. In a simple story, the authors invite us to reflect on the relationship of fathers and sons.