In Other Words has been the definitive coursebook for students studying translation for
nearly three decades. Assuming no knowledge of foreign languages, it offers a practical …

Recent work in linguistic anthropology has generated new and exciting perspectives on the
vital role of contextualization in language meaning and function. At the same time …

Investigating Specialized Discourse is a shortened and revised textbook edition of the
monograph Specialized Discourse (2003). This book analyses the various features of …

Whenever native and non-native speakers “employ English in a restricted range of social
and thematic areas”(Gramley & Pätzold, 1992, p. 246), they use it in order to communicate …

Abstraet The Theme/Rheme construct has been widely studied in English over the last few
years proving to be a very important cohesive element at discourse level (Fries, 1981, 1992 …

Theme and thematic progression (T/TP) is a major aspect of the way that speakers construct
their messages in a way which makes them fit smoothly into the unfolding language event …

In the relatively recent past, a whole issue of ARAL (Kaplan, et al. 1983) was devoted to text
analysis. In a way, an article of the sort offered here may be premature in the sense that it …

This study investigates how the Themes and Theme progressions in a sample of Swedish
advanced learners‟ writing contribute to the method of development in their texts. A …

The issue of untranslatability of legal terms, particularly between originally unrelated
languages, like legal Arabic and legal English, has long been a real challenge in legal …

The aim of this paper is to describe and justify the structure and design criteria to create a
legal English corpus of judicial decisions. The authors, lecturers of this ESP variety, decided …