'Negative transfer' or interference of prior learning experience on subsequent ones is considered one of the main obstacles in the way of successful acquisition of language. Analysing the source and target language contrastively, locating the areas of difference between the languages in question, helps predicting the problem areas and consequently overcoming the problem. This book employs the techniques of contrastive analysis to look into the sound structure of ...
Translation studies has been a discipline of much fascination since time immemorial. Scholars, literary critics, linguists and legendary authors have engaged themselves in the various concepts of 'fidelity', 'foreignisation', 'hermeneutics', 'transmutation', 'equivalence' and the like. There is no dearth of literature on the theories on this topic and, needless to say, the discipline has the potential to bring in a lot more intriguing readings and concepts to the ...