Le manuel s’adresse à un vaste public, c’est-à-dire à tous ceux qui souhaitent mieux connaître les rudiments de la traduction professionnelle, qu’il s’agisse d’étudiants en traduction, en langues étrangères, de critiques de traduction, voire des étudiants, des enseignants ou des professionnels appelés à traduire ou qui traduisent déjà, ou encore des lecteurs et utilisateurs avertis de documents traduits. Il propose une initiation à une profession qui a connu beaucoup de changements et un essor remarquable depuis l’arrivée des technologies et des mégadonnées numériques. L’auteur situe l’objet d’étude de la traduction professionnelle, explique comment consulter deux grandes banques terminologiques accessibles en ligne, définit les grands champs de spécialisation en traduction et décrit les compétences que doivent maîtriser les traducteurs professionnels. Il présente les concepts clés de la signification et du sens, qu’il aborde dans un cadre sémiotique, ainsi que les éléments fondamentaux de structuration des textes, comme la phrase, le syntagme et les unités lexicales, lesquels sont au cœur des opérations de traduction. Il propose une classification et une vue d’ensemble des principales erreurs de traduction qu’il répartit entre les fautes de langue et les interférences. Les personnes intéressées par la traduction comme travail ou objet d’étude trouveront dans le manuel une foule de renseignements utiles qui leur permettront de mieux saisir les enjeux et les exigences de la profession.

Phonetics is a fundamental building block not just in linguistics but also in fields such as communication disorders. However, introductions to phonetics can often assume a background in linguistics, whilst at the same time overlooking the clinical and scientific aspects of the field. This textbook fills this gap by providing a comprehensive yet accessible overview of phonetics that delves into the fundamental science underlying the production of speech. Written with beginners in mind, it focuses on the anatomy and physiology of speech, while at the same time explaining the very basics of phonetics, such as the phonemes of English, the International Phonetic Alphabet, and phonetic transcription systems. It presents the sounds of speech as elements of linguistic structure and as the result of complex biological mechanics. It explains complicated terminology in a clear, easy-to-understand way, and provides examples from a range of languages, from disorders of speech, and from language learning

Noam Chomsky, il maestro che ha teorizzato la grammatica generativa, e Andrea Moro, l'allievo che ha rivoluzionato gli studi su linguaggio e cervello, si confrontano in una conversazione a tutto campo. Come si apprende una lingua da bambini? Esistono lingue impossibili? Qual è il contributo della neurobiologia alla struttura del linguaggio umano? Un dialogo appassionato sulla scienza del linguaggio, sui misteri che non sono ancora stati chiariti e che forse non lo saranno mai. In questa breve storia della relazione tra parole e cervello, incontrando Cartesio, Galileo, Newton e Turing, esploreremo i confini di Babele, verificheremo quanto è rischioso immaginare lingue perfette e metteremo alla prova l'euforia sull'intelligenza artificiale. Per scoprire, infine, che le parole sono importanti perché parlano di noi, e come noi hanno proprietà sorprendenti, talvolta nascoste come segreti molto ben custoditi

Authorship analysis is the process of determining who produced a questioned text by language analysis. Although there has been significant success in the performance of computational methods to solve this problem in recent years, these are often methods that are not amenable to interpretation. Authorship analysis is in all effects an area of computer science with very little linguistics or cognitive science. This Element introduces a Theory of Linguistic Individuality that, starting from basic notions of cognitive linguistics, establishes a formal framework for the mathematical modelling of language processing that is then applied to three computational experiments, including using the likelihood ratio framework. The results propose new avenues of research and a change of perspective in the way authorship analysis is currently carried out