Maestro & Vainman

Cognate Infinitives have been identified and described as productive linguistic features within Arabic language and along the Semitic continuum. However, their full range of function remains largely unstudied in the spoken varieties of Arabic. This study proposes a new grammatical model for the analysis and description of Cognate Infinitives in Lebanese Arabic that accounts for this feature’s semantic, informational, affective and social functions. It suggests that Cognate Infinitives function as focus markers and are efficient communicative tools for a variety of attention management...

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Holocaust movies have become an important segment of world cinema and the de-facto Holocaust education for many. One quarter of all American-produced Holocaust-related feature films have won or been nominated for at least one Oscar. In fact, from 1945 through 1991, half of all American Holocaust features were nominated. Yet most Holocaust movies have fallen through the cracks and few have been commercially successful. This book explores these trends--and many others--with a comprehensive guide to hundreds of films and made-for-television movies. From Anne Frank to Schindler's List to Jojo...

C mo se traduce lo que dicen a viva voz los personajes de las obras literarias, y cu les son las estrategias que han utilizado los traductores de estos textos? Este libro tiene por objetivo analizar los retos de orden ling stico, estil stico, social e incluso ideol gico que plantean para la traducci n literaria los mecanismos de la oralidad fingida utilizados por autores como Petronio, Sterne, Slavici, Salinger, Pasolini, Vargas Llosa, Gary, Riera o Hastings. Se explora el entramado heterog neo de voces de los protagonistas, del narrador, e incluso del p blico ficticio, para poner de...