Constrastive linguistics
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There is something strange about the way English pronunciation skills are taught and learnt in India. English is learnt as a second language by almost all Indians except a tiny minority of Anglo-Indians. Naturally, L1 influence (if not... more
This paper is concerned with the investigation into and the translation of certain problematic cases of exophoric/endophoric reference– with particular reference to 'dummy pronouns'¬– in two modern-phrased translations of the Quranic... more
This paper is concerned with the investigation into English and Arabic poetic/expressive language functions through proposing a new approach to the translation of the genre of poetry, both in theoretical and practical terms. Given the... more
Present work sketches a brief historic perspective of Machine Translation (MT) application within natural languages. It explores different types of translation approaches. Therefore, to comprehend the application of Machine Translation... more
Using translation in foreign language teaching has been a rather controversial topic in recent times. While translation was generally accepted as a regular teaching method up to the 18th century, the trend slowly reversed to a merely... more
Université de Poitiers, 21-22 mai 2015