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The marvels found in the great cities and in the seas and on the islands : a …
"This volume presents the original text, accompanied by an English translation and commentary, of a hitherto unpublished Syriac composition, entitled the Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands. Produced by an unknown East Syrian Christian author during the late medieval or early modern period, this work offers a loosely organized catalogue of marvellous events, phe…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800640344
- Collation
- ix, 214 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 892.3 MAR S
Handbook of easy languages in Europe
The Handbook of Easy Languages in Europe describes what Easy Language is and how it is used in European countries. It demonstrates the great diversity of actors, instruments and outcomes related to Easy Language throughout Europe. All people, despite their limitations, have an equal right to information, inclusion, and social participation. This results in requirements for understandable langua…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783732991952
- Collation
- 623 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 400 LIN h
Easy language research : text and user perspectives
This volume presents new approaches in Easy Language research from three different perspectives: text perspective, user perspective and translation perspective. It explores the field of comprehensibility-enhanced varieties at different levels (Easy Language, Plain Language, Easy Language Plus). While all are possible solutions to foster communicative inclusion of people with disabilities, they …
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- vo.2
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783732993024
- Collation
- 285 p.
- Series Title
- Easy – Plain – Accessible, 2
- Call Number
- 417.0721 EAS e
Easy Language – plain language – easy language plus : balancing comprehen…
This book shows how accessible communication, and especially easy-to-understand languages, should be designed in order to become instruments of inclusion. It examines two well-established easy-to-understand varieties: Easy Language and Plain Language, and shows that they have complementary profiles with respect to four central qualities: comprehensibility, perceptibility, acceptability and stig…
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- Vol. 3
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783732992997
- Collation
- 301 p.
- Series Title
- Easy – Plain – Accessible, 3
- Call Number
- 428.2 MAA e
Studies in semitic vocalisation and reading traditions
"This volume brings together papers relating to the pronunciation of Semitic languages and the representation of their pronunciation in written form. The papers focus on sources representative of a period that stretches from late antiquity until the Middle Ages. A large proportion of them concern reading traditions of Biblical Hebrew, especially the vocalisation notation systems used to represe…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783749379
- Collation
- XXIII, 685 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 418.4 STU s
Interpreting and technology
Unlike other professions, the impact of information and communication technology on interpreting has been moderate so far. However, recent advances in the areas of remote, computer-assisted, and, most recently, machine interpreting, are gaining the interest of both researchers and practitioners. This volume aims at exploring key issues, approaches and challenges to the interplay of interpreting…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783961101610
- Collation
- 149 p.
- Series Title
- Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing
- Call Number
- 418.020285 INT i
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