Alton Becker (59 results)

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gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Gut. 383 Seiten; Das hier angebotene Buch stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek und trägt die entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.); der Buchzustand ist ansonsten ordentlich und dem Alter entsprechend gut. Der Bucheinband ist staubschmutzig. Der Buchshcnitt weist Flecken auf. In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 730.…

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Book is in 'as new' condition. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. In this collection of essays A. L. Becker develops a new approach to translation he calls modern philology, an approach that insists, beyond translation, on the sorting out of ambiguities and contexts of meaning. Becker describes how texts in Burmese, Javanese, and Malay differ profoundly from English in all the ways they have meaning: in the games they play, the worlds they constitute, the memories they evoke, and the silences they maintain. In each of these dimensions there are excesses and inadequacies of meaning that make a difference across languages. Drawn from over three decades of studying, teaching, translating and writing about Southeast Asian languages and literatures, the essays collected here for the first time are particular accounts of Becker's experiences in attempting to translate into or out of Burmese, Javanese, and Malay a variety of texts. They describe such things as the building of a Javanese shadowplay, how a Sanskrit story about the language of animals has been used in Indonesia, and some of the profound semantic silences a translator faces in taking an anecdote by Gregory Bateson from English into Malay. In linguistics, the essays emphasize important kinds of nonuniversality in all aspects of language and look toward a new theory of language grounded in American pragmatism. In anthropology, the essays demonstrate that much of culture can be described in terms of text-building strategies. And for the comparativist, whether in literature, history, rhetoric, music, or psychology, the essays provide a new array of tools of comparison across distant languages and cultures. …

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Condition: Good. 1902. 182 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with black lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.…

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Condition: New. A bold, new approach to language that addresses the subtleties of cultural identity Num Pages: 456 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 615. . 2000. Paperback. . . . .

Condition: New. A bold, new approach to language that addresses the subtleties of cultural identity Num Pages: 456 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 615. . 2000. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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