Robert de Beaugrande

List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert de Beaugrande plays a role.

Title

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.
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Translation Studies

Articles

Beaugrande, Robert de 2022 Text linguisticsHandbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1394–1403 | Chapter
Beaugrande, Robert de 2011 Text linguisticsDiscursive Pragmatics, Zienkowski, Jan, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 286–296 | Article
Beaugrande, Robert de 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. | Article
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
Beaugrande, Robert de 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. | Article
Beaugrande, Robert de 1995 Text linguisticsHandbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 536–544 | Article
Beaugrande, Robert de 1994 Consultations, conferences, and proceedings: their role as discourse transactionsLanguage, Discourse and Translation in the West and Middle East, Beaugrande, Robert de, Abdullah Shunnaq and Mohamed Helmy Heliel (eds.), pp. 221 ff. | Article
Beaugrande, Robert de 1994 Cognition, communicatio, translation, instruction: The geopolitics of discourseLanguage, Discourse and Translation in the West and Middle East, Beaugrande, Robert de, Abdullah Shunnaq and Mohamed Helmy Heliel (eds.), pp. 1 ff. | Article
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
Beaugrande, Robert de 1994 Factionalism versus Formalism in East and WestThe Syntax of Sentence and Text: A Festschrift for František Daneš, Čmejrková, Svĕtla and František Štícha (eds.), pp. 29 ff. | Article
Beaugrande, Robert de 1991 Coincidence in Translation: Glory and Misery AgainTarget 3:1, pp. 17–53 | Article
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