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List the cohesive devices used in the following text: |
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My aunt and uncle had to appear in court as witnesses to an accident. After winning the case, they had difficulty finding their way out of the building. A passerby, sensing their distress, approached and asked, "Lost?" |
"No," my aunt said happily, "We won! We won!" |
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| 423.7.6: SUMMARY |
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In this unit, we have looked at different notions involved in analysing a text and how important they are for a translator. |
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| REVIEW QUESTIONS |
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Explain and illustrate the statement - No text is context free. |
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Say in 10 lines how discourse analysis is useful to a translator while translating a text. |
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| 423.7.7: REFERENCES |
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| Austin, J. 1962. How to do things with words. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. |
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| Beaugrande, R. de. 1980. Text, Discourse and Process. London: Longman. |
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| Brown, G. and Yule, G. 1983. Discourse Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
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| Grice, H.P. 1975. "Logic and Conversation" in Cole, P. and J.L. Morgan (eds) Syntax and Semantics, Vol 3: Speech Acts. New York: Academic Press. |
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| ________. 1978. "Further notes on logic and conversation", in Cole, P (ed.) Syntax and Semantics IX : Pragmatics. New York: Academic Press, pp. 113-27. |
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| Halliday, M.A.K. 1978. Language as Social Semiotics: The Social Interpretation of Language and Meaning. London: Edward Arnold. |
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| Sadock, J.M. 1978. "On Testing for Conversational Interpretation". in Cole, P (ed.) Syntax and Semantics IX: Pragmatics. New York: Academic Press, pp. 281-98. |
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| Searl, J.R. 1969. Speech Acts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
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| ---------. 1976. "A Classification of Illocutionary Acts". Language in Society. No.5. pp.1- 23. |
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| Traugott, E.C. and Pratt, M.L. 1980. Linguistics for Students of Literature. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch. |
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| Vam Dijk , T. 1977. Text and Context. London: Longman. |
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| Widdowson, H.G. 1979. Explorations in Applied Linguistics. Oxford: OUP. |
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| 423.7.4 : SUGGESTED READINGS |
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Bell, R.T. 1991. Translation and Translating : Theory and Practice. London: Longman.
Ernst-August Gutt. 1991. Translation and Relevance. Cambridge, Mass: Basil Blackwell.
Hatim, B. and Mason, I. 1990. Discourse and the Translator., London: Longman. |
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M. Hari Prasad
Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL) |
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