Cross-cultural encounters
Subtitle: linguistic perspectives
By: Marina Bondi, Nick Maxwell, eds.
Contributors: Bondi, Marina.; Maxwell, Nick.
Series: Varietà di testi, varietà di lingue -- 4
Publisher: Officina
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9788887570908
Subjects: English philology -- Congresses; Sociolinguistics -- Congresses; Language and culture -- Congresses; English language -- Phraseology -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "... selection of the papers presented at the XXI National Congress of the Associazione Italiana di Anglistica held in Modena on September 25-27, 2003."--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Marina Bondi and Nick Maxwell; title: English across communities and domains: globalising trends and intercultural conflicts / Maurizio Gotti; title: The quality of dubbed television programmes in Italy: the experimental design of an empirical study / Rachele Antonini and Delia Chiaro; title: Contact-induced and system-triggered changes in the history of the English language / Antonio Bertacca; title: Usages, competence and understanding in the transcultured speaker / Patrick Boylan; title: Paraphrase across academic genres: examples from textbooks and lectures / Silvia Brutti; title: Persuasion on "virtual" good causes: an intercultural approach to charities on-line / Sandra Campagna; title: Comparable phrases on English and Italian: an overview of the phenomenon and of its relevance to language research / Stephen Coffey; title: Alterity, creolization and guavas: translating Caribbean women's writing into Italian / Adele D'Arcangelo; title: Cross-cultural representations in tourist discourse: the image of Sardinia on English tourist guides / Olga Denti and Luisanna Foddle; title: Pragmatic and discoursal features of annual executive letters: observation on the rhetorical and evaluative function of concessive constructions / Giuliana Garzone; title: Schema-biased presuppositions in intercultural social-service encounters / Maria Grazia Guido; title: Investigation into linguistic and cultural mediation between the English-speaking world and the Italian deaf signing community / Cynthia Kellett Bidoli; title: Botanical terms and intercultural issues / Susan Kermas; title: Ebonics after Oakland / Michael Lahey; title: English as a world lingua franca: a linguistic perspective / Maria Luisa Maggioni; title: Translating varieties of English in a cross-cultural perspective: lexical items and nominal groups in the translation of works by R.K. Narayan and V. Chandra into Italian / Marina Manfredi; title: The persuasive rhetoric of Mirror and Guardian editorials on the Iraq War / John Morley; title: LIS/Italian as a basis for teaching EFL: cognitive and intercultural implications / Elana Paruolo; title: Intercultural? communication: searching for categories in conversation analysis / Diane Ponterotto; title: Rhetoric strategies in scientific journalism / Francesca Santulli; title: Translation in an interdisciplinary perspective / Girolamo Tessuto; title: Linking past and present: compounds as cross cultural encounters / Paola Tornaghi; title: Verbal constructions in ceremonial commentaries for television / Christopher Williams.