This book approaches the topic of false friends from a theoretical perspective, arguing that false friends carry out a positive role as a cognitive device, mainly in literature and jokes, and suggesting some pragmatic strategies in order to restore the original sense of a text/utterance when a given translator (or a foreign speaker) falls victim to false friends. This theoretical account is successively verified by appealing to texts from the fields of literature, science, philosophy, journalism, and everyday speech.

• ISBN: 0415957206
• ISBN-13: 9780415957205
• Author : Pedro J. Chamizo-Dominguez
• Language : English
• Format:  Hardcover - Search for other formats
• Publication Date: 19/7/2007
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Price ($AUD): $144.60


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