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Tennyson's Name: Identity and Responsibility in the Poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson (The Nineteenth Century Series)
by Anna BartonSeeking to understand Tennyson's poetry as the work of a man concerned with making and then living up to one of the most famous names in Victorian literature, Anna Barton offers close readings of Tennyson's major works. From his obscure beginning as 'A.T.', one of two anonymous brothers, to the height of his success, when he held the impressive title 'Alfred Lord Tennyson, DCL, Poet Laureate', the development of Tennyson's career took place in a period increasingly aware that a name could command considerable cultural capital. In the marketplace goods were sold on the strength of their brand name; in the press the battle for signed articles was fought and won; and in Victorian drawing rooms young ladies collected the autographs of family and friends and pasted them into scrap books. From his early lyrics to his Arthurian Idylls, Barton argues, the laureate's keen sense of professional identity forced him to grapple with modern concerns about the ethics of print in order to establish his own responsible poetic.
Tennyson's Poetry (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)
by SparkNotesTennyson's Poetry (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Alfred Lord Tennyson Making the reading experience fun! Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis *Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols *A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers
Tense in English: Its Structure and Use in Discourse (Routledge Library Editions: The English Language #9)
by Renaat DeclerckFirst published in 1991, this book looks at tense in English, one of the most controversial areas of grammar. Prior to the book’s original publication, the problems and interest in the subject had led to an impressive number of books and articles. Yet, despite the amount of work produced, nothing approaching a consensus had emerged, merely a series of conflicting theories and analyses. Here, Renaat Declerck provides a framework for a theoretical instrument which will enable the linguist to interpret the data correctly. The book is primarily theoretical in nature, but offers descriptive theory and a discussion of the various tenses which will make it a valuable tool for those teaching English. Theoretical and applied linguists will find this an important contribution to the debate on tense and a worthy starting point for future research. The book is not written from the viewpoint of any particular linguistic theory and does not presuppose any knowledge of tense theory, it is a readable and reliable guide to the area.
Tension and Contention in Language Education for Latinxs in the United States: Experience and Ethics in Teaching and Learning (Language Education Tensions in Global and Local Contexts)
by Glenn A. Martínez Robert W. TrainApplying a critical lens to language education, this book explores the tensions that Latinx students face in relation to their identities, social and institutional settings, and other external factors. Across diverse contexts, these students confront complex debates and contestable affirmations that intersect with their lived experiences and social histories. Martinez and Train highlight the pedagogic and ethical urgency of teacher responsibility, learner agency and social justice in critically addressing the consequences, constraints, and affordances of the language education that Latinx students experience in historically-situated and institutionally defined spaces of practice, ideology and policy. Reframing language studies to take into account the roles of power, inequality, and social settings, this book provokes dialogue between areas of language education that rarely interface. Through privileging the learner experience, the book provides a window to the contested spaces across language education and generates new opportunities for engagement and action. Offering nuanced and insightful analyses, this book is ideal for scholars, language researchers, language teacher educators and graduate students in all areas of language education.
Tensión y sentido
by Mariano Peyrou Tubert«Siempre que leemos un buen poema, por muy acostumbrados que estemos a leer poesía, sentimos esa tensión; podemos aprender a disfrutarla.» Este libro no es un manual, pero logra que el lector, de un modo natural, sutil y un tanto inesperado, descubra y aprenda a emplear sus propios recursos para abordar un poema (y se libere de ciertas trabas). Tampoco es una historia de la poesía, pero en él lo contemporáneo se conecta con una larga tradición que abarca diversas disciplinas artísticas, de modo que vemos con nuevos ojos tanto lo antiguo como lo moderno. ¿Qué ocurre cuando el sentido se abre, cuando conviven la precisión y la imprecisión, cuando irrumpe lo prosaico? ¿Cómo participan la ironía, la debilidad temática, las repeticiones, las imágenes o los símbolos en la construcción del sentido? Mariano Peyrou nos invita a disfrutar de la tensión de explorar un territorio extraño, a entregarnos a la fascinación que genera esa extrañeza y a encontrar un espacio desde el que leer, mirar y pensar de forma diferente. En el camino, una cuidada selección de poemas (de Baudelaire, Dickinson, Eliot, Stevens, Parra, Szymborska o Ullán, pero también de Shakespeare, Góngora o Blake) ilustra las distintas dimensiones exploradas. Pero los poemas, conectados con numerosos ejemplos provenientes de otras disciplinas (Duchamp, El Veronés, Beethoven, Stravinski, Darwin o Freud también están en estas páginas), son sobre todo el terreno ideal para que el lector se deleite estrenando su nueva mirada. Reseñas:«Libro a libro, ha renovado los modos del lenguaje y los enfoques de la mirada de una obra poética y narrativa tan personal como extrañamente prodigiosa.»Antonio Ortega, Babelia «Esas raras veces en que el ingenio se acompaña de sustancia, el resultado puede ser fascinante. En ese momento es cuando yo dejo de llamarlo "ingenio" y lo llamo "talento".»Sara Mesa, Estado Crítico «Su sentido del humor y su controlado gusto por la broma lingüística adquieren un feliz tono propio.»Nadal Suau, El Cultural «Innovador, ácido, lúdico, lúcido.»Ángeles López, La Razón «Uno de nuestros grandes poetas del lenguaje.»Vicente Luis Mora, Diario de Lecturas «Mariano Peyrou me parece un excelente escritor.»José María Guelbenzu «Una de las escrituras más personales y sorprendentes del panorama actual.»Luis Bagué Quílez, Babelia «Uno de los narradores españoles más inteligentes en el juego con el lenguaje.»Eugenio Fuentes, La Nueva España «Dan ganas de anunciarle al lector que esto no es una novela. ¿Y esto es bueno o malo? En el caso del autor madrileño, es bueno. Muy bueno. Endiabladamente inteligente.»J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, Babelia, sobre Los nombres de las cosas «Son muchas las cuestiones existenciales y artísticas que plantea De los otros. Impulsada por un estilo introspectivo, con derivas en el flujo de la conciencia y diálogos con frases inconclusas. Peyrou sobrecoge al lector.»Francisco Solano, Babelia «Peyrou da rienda suelta a su aventura lingüística sin que la vanguardia desemboque jamás en gratuidad.»Juan Andrés García Román, Babab «No es una novela de humor, y sin embargo es divertida como pocas que haya leído en los últimos años.»Juan Marqués, La Esfera de Papel, sobre Los nombres de las cosas
Tensions in World Literature: Between the Local and the Universal
by Weigui FangThis collection gives a diversified account of world literature, examining not only the rise of the concept, but also problems such as the relation between the local and the universal, and the tensions between national culture and global ethics. In this context, it focuses on the complex relationship between Chinese literature and world literature, not only in the sense of providing an exemplary case study, but also as an introspection and re-location of Chinese literature itself. The book activates the concept of world literature at a time when it is facing the rising modern day challenges of race, class and culture.
Tensions of Modernity: Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment (Routledge Innovations in Political Theory)
by Daniel R. BrunstetterPolitics today is marked by tension between claims of universal human rights and diversity. From the war on terror to immigration, one of the major challenges facing liberalism is to understand the scope of equality in a world in which certain peoples are perceived to reject and/or violently resist democratic principles. This book revisits Europe’s initial encounter with the Native Americans of the New World to shed light on how the West’s initial defense of so-called ‘barbarians’ has influenced the way we think about diversity today, and elucidate the arguments of exclusion that unconsciously permeate the moral world we live in. In doing so, Daniel R. Brunstetter traces Bartolomé de Las Casas’s oft heralded defense of the Native Americans in the sixteenth century through the French Enlightenment. While this defense has been rightly lauded as an early example of human rights discourse, tracing Las Casas’s arguments into the eighteenth century shows how his view of equality enabled arguments legitimizing the annihilation by ‘just’ war of those perceived to be ‘barbarians’. This philosophical narrative can be useful when thinking about concepts such as just war, multiculturalism, and immigration, or any area in which politics confronts radical difference.
The Tenth Muse: Essays in Criticism (Routledge Revivals: Herbert Read and Selected Works)
by Herbert ReadThis book, first published in 1957, is a collection of Herbert Read’s essays on various topics. The essays explore many different subjects and themes, including art, literature, religion and philosophy. This title will be of interest to a variety of readers.
El teólogo en la España de la temprana modernidad: Formas de vida seculares y espirituales. Impacto político, social y estético (Prolegomena Romanica. Beiträge zu den romanischen Kulturen und Literaturen)
by Christoph Strosetzki Isabel Hernando Morata Christian WehrEste volumen analiza el lugar y el perfil del teólogo en el Siglo de Oro español. Los capítulos que lo integran se centran no solo en los miembros del clero católico, sino también en los seguidores de corrientes religiosas como el recogimiento, el dejamiento, el alumbradismo y la devotio moderna. La figura del teólogo se aborda desde las perspectivas de los estudios literarios y culturales, la teología y la filosofía. Son objeto de atención la concepción que el teólogo tenía de sí mismo, su actitud, conocimiento, formación, influencias y actividades, que atestiguan los tratados, los textos ficcionales y la literatura religiosa del Siglo de Oro. Se plantean cuestiones como las consecuencias de la Reforma y la Contrarreforma en la imagen de los teólogos, sus relaciones familiares y económicas con otros miembros de la sociedad, y el importante papel que alcanzaron en este período como autores literarios.Dieser Sammelband analysiert den gesellschaftlichen Ort und das Profil des Theologen im Siglo de Oro, wobei auch Vertreter religiöser Lehren, die nicht dem katholischen Klerus angehörten, also Repräsentanten der Strömungen des recogimiento, dejamiento, alumbradismo oder der devotio moderna Berücksichtigung finden. Es kommen die Perspektiven vor allem von Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Theologie und Philosophie zu Wort. Analysiert werden Selbstverständnis, Haltung, Wissen und Ausbildung, Einflussbereich und Tätigkeitsfeld der Theologen, wie sie in Traktaten, fiktionalen Texten und religiöser Literatur bezeugt werden. Dabei werden Fragenkomplexe diskutiert wie z.B. die nach den Folgen von Reformation und Gegenreformation für das Selbstverständnis des Theologen, nach den familiären und wirtschaftlichen Bindungen der Theologen oder nach der bedeutenden Rolle von Theologen als Autoren in der Literatur der Zeit.
Teoría King Kong
by Virginie DespentesTeoría King Kong es uno de los grandes libros de referencia del feminismo y de la teoría de género, un incisivo ensayo en el que Despentes comparte su propia experiencia para hablarnos sin tapujos ni concesiones sobre la prostitución, la violación, la represión del deseo, la maternidad y la pornografía, y para contribuir al derrumbe de los cimientos patriarcales de la sociedad actual. «Escribo desde la fealdad, y para las feas, las viejas, las camioneras, las frígidas, las mal folladas, las infollables, todas las excluidas del gran mercado de la buena chica, pero también para los hombres que no tienen ganas de proteger, para los que querrían hacerlo pero no saben cómo, los que no son ambiciosos, ni competitivos, ni la tienen grande. Porque el ideal de la mujer blanca, seductora, que nos ponen delante de los ojos es posible incluso que no exista.» Críticas:«Despentes se ha convertido en una especiede heroína de culto, una santa patrona de las mujeres invisibles.»The New York Times «Pocas autoras nos sumergen como Virginie Despentes en el pantanal asfixiante en que se ha convertido nuestra época.»El País «Virginie Despentes es una de las escritoras francesas más incómodas.»Le Journal du Dimanche «Se atreve a atacar el estado actual del mundo, en constante evolución y difícil de comprender.»Radio Télévision Suisse Culture
Teoría novelada de mí mismo
by Sergio González RodríguezLa historia universal de una persona Este libro es un ensayo, una novela y una memoria. El tema es uno y múltiple: Sergio González Rodríguez. Más que una autobiografía, lo que el autor realiza aquí es una relectura, de lo vivido, lo escrito y lo soñado. Como en todo regreso a un libro entrañable, el lector/autor se encuentra con marcas y subrayados que delatan sus obsesiones. Las de Sergio González Rodríguez, relector de sí mismo, están todas presentes en estas páginas: los sueños, los fantasmas, la violencia, las habitaciones de hotel, el cine, los vínculos entre rock y literatura. Por ello, este libro es también una enciclopedia desbordante e íntima. Es la historia universal de una persona. "Ahora, desde el presente, soy un fantasma que transita entre la vida cotidiana, sus filos o goces, y los libros, las películas. Entre el mundo, el ultramundo y el asedio de las pesadillas compartidas. ¿En qué creo? Entre otras cosas, en la alteridad radical entrevista en lecturas, sueños, imágenes, fantasmas, intervenciones. O en el estudio del trance entre la grafía y la agrafía; entre el deseo y el sueño e, indefectiblemente siempre, frente a cada uno de nosotros la realidad. La escritura, el sueño, las imágenes, los fantasmas. La aptitud intrusiva de ellos en cada quien como sendero literario. Éste es el mío." Sergio González Rodríguez
Terapia literaria el libro: Manual de supervivencia para lectores
by Valentina Trava Maura GómezEn este libro aprenderás cómo: Disfrutar los libros Hacerte tiempo para leer Encontrar a tu comunidad lectora Comprender mejor lo que lees Y, básicamente, ¡amar la lectura! Valentina Trava y Maura Gómez son dos leyendas del mundo de los libros, sus recomendaciones literarias pesan y, me consta, basta una mención suya de un título para agotarlo en librerías. De manera ágil y liviana, no por ello menos profunda, nos asoman a los libros, a los autores, desmenuzan con elegancia los textos, desentrañan los párrafos, abren en canal las frases para incitarnos a leer, a adentrarnos en todos los mundos que traen detrás de sí los libros. Son incansables en su propósito de hacernos amar la lectura, y en este libro nos dan pautas para acercarnos, con más vigor y vitalidad, al acto de leer. Este libro es para ti, para mí, para todos, vale la pena acercarse a él Guillermo Arriaga, autor Premio Alfaguara de novela 2020
Teresa of Avila's Autobiography: Authority, Power and the Self in Mid-sixteenth Century Spain
by Elena CarreraThe Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila (1515-82), author of one of the most acclaimed early modern autobiographies (Vida, 1565), has generated a wealth of literary, historical and theological studies, yet none to date has examined the impact of textual models on Teresa's self-construction. In looking at the issue of the self, Carrera draws on revisions
Term Paper Resource Guide To African American History
by Caryn E. NeumannNeumann (history, Miami U. of Ohio) provides a supplemental text intended to provide high school and college students with compelling research topics for papers. It includes 100 of the most significant events in African American history, from the 16th century slave trade to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Each topic includes an overview, suggested term paper research questions, listings of primary and secondary sources, relevant Internet Web sites, and multimedia sources. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Term Paper Resource Guide to American Indian History
by Patrick LebeauMajor help for American Indian History term papers has arrived to enrich and stimulate students in challenging and enjoyable ways.
Term Paper Resource Guide To Colonial American History
by Roger M. CarpenterAs a starting point for students in high school and up writing term papers about colonial history, this reference presents 100 entries on important historical events during the period. Each entry provides a brief overview of the event, followed by a list of term paper suggestions, which are research questions that students may modify. There are also alternative paper suggestions for creating iMovies, PowerPoint presentations, podcasts, and other formats. Some suggestions ask students to assume the role of an advisor to a historical person, or to make a counterhistorical argument. Primary sources are listed, focusing on sources that students can find easily in most libraries or on the Web. Secondary sources, web sites, and multimedia sources are also listed.
Term Paper Resource Guide To Nineteenth-Century World History
by William T. WalkerWalker (history, Chestnut Hill College) provides a guide for students to writing term papers related to nineteenth-century world history. He lists chronologically 100 historically significant events that could be used as topics for papers, with an overview of the event, term paper suggestions, alternate formats like podcasts, journal entries, and news articles, and annotated lists of primary and secondary sources, websites, and multimedia sources. Events were chosen based on their historical significance, availability of source materials, and interest to students. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Term Rewriting and All That
by Franz Baader Tobias NipkowThis textbook offers a unified, self-contained introduction to the field of term rewriting. Baader and Nipkow cover all the basic material--abstract reduction systems, termination, confluence, completion, and combination problems--but also some important and closely connected subjects: universal algebra, unification theory, Gröbner bases, and Buchberger's algorithm. They present the main algorithms both informally and as programs in the functional language Standard ML (An appendix contains a quick and easy introduction to ML). Key chapters cover crucial algorithms such as unification and congruence closure in more depth and develop efficient Pascal programs. The book contains many examples and over 170 exercises. This is also an ideal reference book for professional researchers: results spread over many conference and journal articles are collected here in a unified notation, detailed proofs of almost all theorems are provided, and each chapter closes with a guide to the literature.
Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction
by Scott BukatmanScott Bukatman's Terminal Identity--referring to both the site of the termination of the conventional "subject" and the birth of a new subjectivity constructed at the computer terminal or television screen--puts to rest any lingering doubts of the significance of science fiction in contemporary cultural studies. Demonstrating a comprehensive knowledge, both of the history of science fiction narrative from its earliest origins, and of cultural theory and philosophy, Bukatman redefines the nature of human identity in the Information Age. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary theories of the postmodern--including Fredric Jameson, Donna Haraway, and Jean Baudrillard--Bukatman begins with the proposition that Western culture is suffering a crisis brought on by advanced electronic technologies. Then in a series of chapters richly supported by analyses of literary texts, visual arts, film, video, television, comics, computer games, and graphics, Bukatman takes the reader on an odyssey that traces the postmodern subject from its current crisis, through its close encounters with technology, and finally to new self-recognition. This new "virtual subject," as Bukatman defines it, situates the human and the technological as coexistent, codependent, and mutally defining.Synthesizing the most provocative theories of postmodern culture with a truly encyclopedic treatment of the relevant media, this volume sets a new standard in the study of science fiction--a category that itself may be redefined in light of this work. Bukatman not only offers the most detailed map to date of the intellectual terrain of postmodern technology studies--he arrives at new frontiers, providing a propitious launching point for further inquiries into the relationship of electronic technology and culture.
Terminating Public Programs: An American Political Paradox
by Mark R. DanielsThis text examines why and when policies or organizations are terminated, how they can be terminated successfully, and what often prevents them from being terminated. The literature on termination and a variety of case studies are reviewed in order to identify theories supported by research.
Terminología del español: el término / Spanish Terminology: The Term
by Gabriel Quiroz Diego A. Burgos Juan Felipe Zuluaga MolinaTerminología del español: el término / Spanish Terminology: The Term provides a consolidated and research-based guide to Terminology Science in Spanish. This edited collection brings together experts in the field who draw upon a large-scale, multi-subject terminology and corpus linguistics research project to provide data, examples, trends, models, analysis, and discussion of terms.Readers will find this a practical guide to term characterization that can be applied to tasks and processes related to terminology, term extraction, specialized translation, knowledge representation, and language for specific purposes. Nine of the 13 chapters focus on a specialized category ranging from terminological nouns and verbs to complex terms and specialized phraseology and offers a qualitative characterization of the relevant category, as well as a quantitative insight into the category trends in a representative corpus of specialized discourses in Spanish. The volume also includes chapters on the teaching of terminology, term extraction, the methodology of terminological projects, and a quantum theory of the term.This volume will be of interest to specialists in Terminology, Spanish linguistics, technology-mediated language processing, specialized translation, specialized lexicography, and language for specific purposes.Terminología del español: el término / Spanish Terminology: The Term constituye una guía comprensiva y basada en investigación sobre la Terminología en español. Este volumen editado reúne a expertos en el campo, los cuales se basan en un proyecto de investigación multidisciplinario y representativo en terminología y lingüística de corpus para mostrar datos, ejemplos, tendencias, modelos, análisis y discusión de diversos términos.Los lectores encontrarán en este libro una guía práctica para la caracterización de términos, lo cual se puede aplicar a tareas y procesos relacionados con la terminología, la extracción de términos, la traducción especializada, la representación del conocimiento y el lenguaje con fines específicos, entre otros. Nueve de los 13 capítulos se centran en una categoría especializada que va desde sustantivos y verbos terminológicos hasta términos complejos y fraseología especializada, y ofrecen una caracterización cualitativa de la categoría relevante, así como una perspectiva cuantitativa sobre las tendencias de la categoría en un corpus representativo de discursos especializados en español. El volumen también incluye un capítulo que propone una teoría cuántica del término, así como tres capítulos adicionales dedicados a la enseñanza de la terminología, la extracción de términos y la metodología de proyectos terminológicos.El volumen será de interés para especialistas en Terminología, lingüística española, procesamiento del lenguaje mediado por tecnologías, traducción especializada, lexicografía especializada y lenguas con fines específicos.
Terminological Dictionary of Automatic Control, Systems and Robotics (Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering #104)
by Rihard Karba Juš Kocijan Tadej Bajd Mojca Žagar Karer Gorazd KarerThis dictionary contains terms from the fields of automatic control, which includes mathematical modelling, simulation of dynamic systems, automation technology with its corresponding elements, and robotics. It also includes signal processing, information technologies and production technologies.The terminological dictionary is primarily aimed at experts and students who deal with control technology and dynamic systems in both technical and non-technical domains. To be able to use the dictionary, at least basic knowledge in this field is required. In the dictionary users will find concise terminological definitions. A concept may be designated by different terms; therefore, cross-references are used. The aim of the dictionary is to collect and unify – at least to an achievable extent – the terminology in the field of automatic control, dynamic systems and robotics.
Terminologie: Zum 25-jährigen Bestehen des Rats für Deutschsprachige Terminologie (Kommunikation und Medienmanagement)
by Petra Drewer Donatella PulitanoAlle, die sich mit fachsprachlichen Texten beschäftigen, beschäftigen sich automatisch auch mit Terminologie: Beim Lesen von Fachtexten nehmen sie die darin enthaltene Terminologie auf, beim Verfassen von Fachtexten verwenden oder produzieren sie Terminologie, beim Fachübersetzen übertragen sie Terminologie in andere Sprachen.Im Laufe der Zeit haben sich Methoden und Verfahren entwickelt, wie man professionell und effizient mit Terminologie arbeitet. Die Auseinandersetzung mit den Grundsätzen der Terminologiearbeit hat sich zu einer wissenschaftlichen Disziplin entwickelt.Der Rat für Deutschsprachige Terminologie (RaDT) wurde 1994 als Initiative der UNESCO-Kommissionen Deutschlands, Österreichs und der Schweiz gegründet, um terminologische Aktivitäten zu fördern. Zu seinem 25-jährigen Bestehen erscheint nun dieser Sammelband, der einen Überblick über das vielfältige Schaffen und das gesamte Themenspektrum der RaDT-Mitglieder bietet.Um die verschiedenen Perspektiven innerhalb der RaDT-Gemeinschaft angemessen wiederzugeben, umfasst der Band vier Themenbereiche:1. Vielfalt an Epochen2. Vielfalt an Schwerpunkten3. Vielfalt an Umsetzungen (in öffentlichen Institutionen)4. Vielfalt an Umsetzungen (in der Privatwirtschaft)Dieser Sammelband richtet sich an alle, die sich mit Terminologie, Terminologiewissenschaft oder Terminologiearbeit befassen, insbesondere in Unternehmensbereichen wie Sprachmanagement, Terminologiemanagement, Corporate Language, Wissensmanagement, sowie an Studierende und Wissenschaftler in den entsprechenden Disziplinen.
Terminology Translation in Chinese Contexts: Theory and Practice (Routledge Studies in Chinese Translation)
by Saihong Li William HopeTerminology Translation in Chinese Contexts: Theory and Practice investigates the theory and practice of terminology translation, terminology management, and scholarship within the distinctive milieu of Chinese and explores the complex relationship between terminology translation (micro level) and terminology management (macro level). This book outlines the contemporary challenges of terminology translation and terminology management within Chinese contexts in specialized fields including law, the arts, religion, Chinese medicine, and food products. The volume also examines how the development and application of new technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence have brought about major changes in the language service industry. Technology such as machine translation and computer-assisted translation has spawned new challenges in terminology management practices and has facilitated their evolution in contexts of ever greater internationalization and globalization. This book recontextualizes terminology translation and terminology management with a special focus on English–Chinese translation. It is hoped that the volume will enable and enhance dialogue between Chinese and Western scholars and professionals in the field. All chapters have been written by specialists in the different subfields and have been peer-reviewed by the editors.
Terms of Employment: The secret lingo of the workplace
by Charlie CrokerHas your doctor ever prescribed you some bug-juice? Or sent you to the rheumaholiday department?Have you ever read an article full of anecdata or reviewphemisms?Do you think you work in an adhocracy, for a seagull manager?Every workplace has its own words and phrases, from the Smurf juice used to clean plane toilets to the Peckham Rolexes, worn by criminals on release from prison. For Terms of Employment, Charlie Croker has patrolled hospital corridors, hung out by office water-coolers and lingered in shops to listen in on the conversations that only take place at work, gathering together the jargon we all use, often without thinking. Whether you're a white wig (new barrister), a heatseeker (ambitious employee) or an entreprenerd (geeky IT pioneer) Terms of Employment is an invaluable - and entertaining - guide.