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Preface | |
Arabic Transliteration System | |
Introduction | |
Contrastive linguistic decisions: the need for textual competence | p. 1 |
Foundation disciplines | p. 13 |
The myth of the single register | p. 22 |
Argumentation across cultures | p. 35 |
Argumentation in Arabic rhetoric | p. 47 |
The paragraph as a unit of text structure | p. 54 |
Background information in expository texts | p. 65 |
At the interface between structure and texture: the textual progression of themes and rhemes | p. 76 |
Cataphora as a textural manifestation | p. 89 |
Degree of texture explicitness | p. 99 |
Emotiveness in texts | p. 111 |
Translating direct speech and the dynamics of news reporting | p. 123 |
The pragmatics of politeness | p. 139 |
Cultures in contact | p. 157 |
The discourse of the alienated | p. 174 |
The translation of irony: a discourse perspective | p. 186 |
The 'other' texts: implications for liaison interpreting | p. 200 |
Glossary of Contrastive Text Linguistics and Translation Terms | p. 213 |
References | p. 226 |
Index | p. 231 |
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