Semantics and Pragmatics of False Friends
| By: | Pedro J. Chamizo-Domínguez |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780415887885 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781135908614 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2008 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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This book approaches the topic of false friends from a theoretical perspective, arguing that false friends carry out a positive role as a cognitive device, mainly in literature and jokes, and suggesting some pragmatic strategies in order to restore the original sense of a text/utterance when a given translator (or a foreign speaker) falls victim to false friends. This theoretical account is successively verified by appealing to texts from the fields of literature, science, philosophy, journalism, and everyday speech.