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Author:   Maurizio Gotti ,  Maria Grazia Guido
Publisher:   Verlag Peter Lang
Imprint:   Verlag Peter Lang
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   84
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9783039116898

ISBN 10:   3039116894
Pages:   285
Publication Date:   26 September 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents: English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) - A Cognitive Model of L1-Transfer as ELF Authentication - Ergativity in Journey Reports by West-African Immigrants - Inferring Material Actions from Mental Processes in Cross-cultural Welfare Interviews - An Ethnopoetic Approach to Forensic Entextualization - Narrative Representations in Transcultural Psychiatry - Schema Conflicts in ELF-mediated Legal Interactions - Cross-cultural Pragmatic Markedness in Legal and Medical Encounters - ELF Modality in Community-marked Production of Specialized Discourse - Problem-oriented Tagging for Intercultural Corpus Analysis - Reformulation Processes in Community-biased Popular Translations - Developing Accessibility and Cooperation Parameters in the ELF Drafting of EU Immigration Laws.

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The Author: Maria Grazia Guido is Professor of English Linguistics and Translation at the University of Salento, Italy, where she is also Director of the Master's Course in 'Cross-cultural Language Mediation in Immigration and Asylum Contexts'. She holds a Ph.D. in English Applied Linguistics from the University of London, Institute of Education. Her research interests are in cognitive-functional linguistics applied to intercultural communication and specialized discourse analysis. Her monographs include The Acting Reader (1999), The Imaging Reader (2005), Mediating Cultures (2004) and Register and Dialect in an Integrated Model of European English (1999).

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