Language, Discourse and Translation in the West and Middle East
Edited by Robert de Beaugrande, Abdullah Shunnaq and Mohamed Helmy Heliel
[Benjamins Translation Library, 7] 1994. xii, 256 pp.
Robert de Beaugrande
List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert de Beaugrande plays a role.
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Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Translation Studies
Articles
2022. Text linguistics. Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1394–1403
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2011. Text linguistics. Discursive Pragmatics, Zienkowski, Jan, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 286–296
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2007. Corpora at your fingertips. Review of Sinclair, J. (ed.) 2004. How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching. Words, grammar, text: revisiting the work of John Sinclair, Moon, Rosamund (ed.), pp. 289–296
Miscellaneous
2003. ‘There’s no such thing as syntax — and it’s a good thing, too…’. Language and Function: To the memory of Jan Firbas, Hladký, Josef (ed.), pp. 23–37
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2001. 1. Large corpora, small corpora, and the learning of “language”. Small Corpus Studies and ELT: Theory and practice, Ghadessy, Mohsen, Alex Henry and Robert L. Roseberry (eds.), pp. 3 ff.
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1999. Reconnecting Real Language with Real Texts: Text Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 4:2, pp. 243–259
The connections between language and text (or "langue and parole, " or "competence and performance, " etc.) have been thoroughly obscured by a long-standing tendency to attribute an ideal order to language which is not reflected in texts and then to conclude that texts are too disorderly to be… read more | Article
1998. On 'usefulness' and 'validity' in the theory and practice of linguistics: A riposte to H. G. Widdowson. Functions of Language 5:1, pp. 85–96
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1997. Linguistics — systemic and functional: Renewing the ‘warrant’. Reconnecting Language: Morphology and Syntax in Functional Perspectives, Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie, Kristin Davidse and Dirk Noël (eds.), pp. 49 ff.
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1997. The Conscious and Unconscious Mind’ in the theoretical Discourse of Modern Linguistics. Language Structure, Discourse and the Access to Consciousness, Stamenov, Maxim I. (ed.), pp. 9 ff.
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1997. On history and historicity in modern linguistics: Formalism versus functionalism revisited. Functions of Language 4:2, pp. 169–213
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1995. Text linguistics. Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 536–544
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1994. Consultations, conferences, and proceedings: their role as discourse transactions. Language, Discourse and Translation in the West and Middle East, Beaugrande, Robert de, Abdullah Shunnaq and Mohamed Helmy Heliel (eds.), pp. 221 ff.
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1994. Cognition, communicatio, translation, instruction: The geopolitics of discourse. Language, Discourse and Translation in the West and Middle East, Beaugrande, Robert de, Abdullah Shunnaq and Mohamed Helmy Heliel (eds.), pp. 1 ff.
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1994. Function and form in language theory and research: The tide is turning. Functions of Language 1:2, pp. 163–200
It is argued that many of the major notions in 'mainstream' linguistic theory and method over the years have been influenced by a 'classical formalist' ambience that suited conventional ideas about how science ought to proceed but fostered an idealized 'frozen' conception of the language system in… read more | Article
1994. Factionalism versus Formalism in East and West. The Syntax of Sentence and Text: A Festschrift for František Daneš, Čmejrková, Svĕtla and František Štícha (eds.), pp. 29 ff.
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1993. Wolfgang Heinemann and Dieter Viehweger. Textlinguistik. Eine Einführung. Studies in Language 17:2, pp. 506–509
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1991. Coincidence in Translation: Glory and Misery Again. Target 3:1, pp. 17–53
An important factor impeding the development of explicit theories of translation has been the centrality of coincidence. Skilled translating consists not of following rules or algorithms of equivalence, but of generating coincidences between the materials of the source language and those of the… read more | Article