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Download full textCarney, Clinton C., Jr. – 1974
This guide was designed to provide both the occasional and the professional bilingual Spanish-English translator with some working definitions based on modern linguistics and to call his or her attention to certain difficulties in translating. Sections on the following are included: (1) context sensitivity, (2) frequency matching, (3) style…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Dialects, English
Murphy, Richard, Ed.; And Others – 1976
This resource book is intended as an aid to persons working with Thai Dam refugees. To help the language teacher, some differences between Lao and English are discussed, specifically tonal inflections, positioning, declension of pronouns, conjugation of verbs, interrogatives, classifiers and predicate adjectives. An outline of cultural differences…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences, Culture Contact
