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Language is fascinating. When I was a student, I preferred the linguistics courses over the literature and history/society courses. I did not dislike those courses, I was just more interested in language... so much that I am now an Associate Professor of linguistics. My main areas are cognitive linguistics and corpus linguistics - and recently I am getting into stylistics and cognitive poetics - so I am more of a functionalist. I am actually not a big fan of Generative Grammar and all that Chomskian stuff.
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bartosso
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Nice, I've always preferred cognitive linguistics to the generative mumbo-jumbo (). French sociolinguistics (Paris school) occupy a big chunk of my masters thesis, too. I haven't read any of those, though.
Same here, although I'm a translator and my thesis is focused on translation so it's a sort of a compromise, I think ;)
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Well, if you guys are into language and literature, there's always stylistics. Being the linguistic study of literature, stylistics is the ultimate compromise ;-)
In fact, this is another book that I read last year: And here is yet another one: |
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I'm currently reading The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
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"Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer
"Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
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I read that one ages ago. It's, shall we say, epic.
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bartosso
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Trying to read Silmarillion reminded me why I couldn't get through the Bible... just kidding, although I really couldn't get through the Bible.
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I keep putting off finishing Dune. I used to be able to become so sucked into a book that you couldn't separate me from it. Now I read only in fits and have trouble finishing books. I think assigned reading actually killed my desire to read for pleasure.
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I had more trouble reading LOTR to be honest. So far it has been an enjoyable read. |
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Well, it's been some time since my last try, maybe I should give Silmarillion another go some time soon Most books I've read recently are on translation studies, like this one Also, I've finished the Milleniun Trilogy by Stieg Larsson - AWESOME genre-bending crime saga.
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Thanks for reminding me this exists. When we covered stylistics and corpus linguistics in class, I remember thinking it might be interesting to use more of this in my future essays and whatnot. On-topic: I am currently reading this: I also read the first novel in Scott Westerfeld's "Uglies" series, and felt any interesting social criticism was drowned by the moronic main character and the terrible, clichéd plot (with, once again, an effing love triangle, my favourite!).
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I love Burgess, only have a couple of his books though
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As it happens, corpus linguistics is my preferred empirical methodology. In fact, there's even something called corpus stylistics. Here's a book I read last summer, since a Japanese colleague and I are doing research into constructions and register:
I assume you've read Vinay & Darbelnet, Newmark, Baker, Catford, Nida and all those grand old translation scholars? Although translation is not my area of reseach, I teach Translation Theory every year as well as some more basic translation courses. Also, those of you with an academic interest in metal might be interested in the Metal Music Studies journal: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=236/ The inaugural issue is freely available to read. I've read a couple of articles in it so far. It's technically not a book, but still... Edited by Time Signature - 24 Jan 2015 at 4:09pm |
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I am reading this at the moment hoping that it will be an honest read and write(. I am reading the long edition not the brief one
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"Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer
"Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
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bartosso
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Well, yes, I know all these gentlemen although I'm not that well versed in Newmarks input, it just felt very basic and applicable only to pragmatic translation, so I skipped it. My attitude towards linguistics as the basis for translation studies is ambivalent, if I'm to be honest. But I'm not an expert, by any means, even though linguistics classes were forced upon us regardless of specialization. I'm specialized in french litterature and my masters is on literary translation (Quebec/litt. postmoderne etc) so... Btw, I need some native-french professor to take a look at my thesis cause my supervisor doesn't answer my emails
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Newmark makes some good points, but I find his work a tad too basic at times and a tad too pretentious and unnecessarily complex at other times. As for linguistics and translation, it really depends on what type of linguistics they forced upon you - I mean Chomskyan linguistics is just useless bullshit in any type of applied linguistics (including translation). And, how annoying that the supervisor does not answer e-mails... hopefully he or she has not collapsed with a heart attack from stress or something :-/
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^ I've submitted my thesis, now I have to defend it and it's over. I can leave the country. As for linguistics, I'm glad that we both agree about the Chomkskyan generative grammar I mean, if a linguistics expert like yourself feels this way about it, I feel my aversion is more than justified.
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Congratulations and best of luck. :-)
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^ Thank you, Kim! By they way, if you need a french translation major from err... Poland... at your uni, let me know
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Sadly, the assholes our government have decided that the humanities are useless and have implemented severe cutbacks on the humanities. As a result, many language-oriented degree programs are now threatened. :-(
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