Cassell Guide to French Officialese

Cassell Guide to French Officialese
Author: Sheelagh Johnson
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1997
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

This is a dictionary containing all the terms visitors spending time in France need to know. This compact, user-friendly guide covers all the main areas of everyday life - jobs, house buying, flat renting, employment, health and social services, education and schools, family life, police and the courts, travel and business, providing the official terms most likely to be encountered.

Writing A Report, 9th Edition

Writing A Report, 9th Edition
Author: John Bowden
Publisher: How To Books
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2011-06-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1848033974

Now in its 9th edition, this extensively revised and updated handbook explains how you can write reports that will be: * Read without unnecessary delay * Understood without undue effort Accepted, and where applicable, acted upon / Divided into three parts, the book looks in detail firstly at the practical side of report writing: * Preparation and planning * Collecting and handling information * Writing and revising / Secondly, at the creative side of report writing: * Achieving a good style and choosing the correct words * Improving the overall appearance of reports / And thirdly at 23 common types of report, including: * Annual reports/ Appraisal reports * Audit reports Minutes/Progress reports * Student project reports/Technical reports / There is also an extensive glossary and a selection of sample reports.

Modern Legal Drafting

Modern Legal Drafting
Author: Peter Butt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2006-10-23
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781139459402

In the second edition of this highly regarded text, the authors show how and why traditional legal language has developed the peculiar characteristics that make legal documents inaccessible to the end users. Incorporating recent research and case law, the book provides a critical examination of case law and the rules of interpretation. Detailed case studies illustrate how obtuse or outdated words, phrases and concepts can be rewritten, reworked or removed altogether. Particularly useful is the step-by-step guide to drafting in the modern style, using examples from four types of common legal documents: leases, company constitutions, wills and conveyances. Readers will gain an appreciation of the historical influences on drafting practice and the use of legal terminology. They will learn about the current moves to reform legal language, and receive clear instruction on how to make their writing clearer and their legal documents more useful.

Identity and Translation Trouble

Identity and Translation Trouble
Author: Ivana Hostová
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2017-08-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1527500802

Besides providing a thorough overview of advances in the concept of identity in Translation Studies, the book brings together a variety of approaches to identity as seen through the prism of translation. Individual chapters are united by the topic and their predominantly cultural approach, but they also supply dynamic impulses for the reader, since their methodologies, level of abstraction, and subject matter differ. The theoretical impulses brought together here include a call for the ecology of translational attention, a proposal of transcultural and farcical translation and a rethinking of Bourdieu’s habitus in terms of František Miko’s experiential complex. The book also offers first-hand insights into such topics as post-communist translation practices, provides sociological insights into the role politics played during state socialism in the creation of fields of translated fiction and the way imported fiction was able to subvert the intentions of the state, gives evidence of the struggles of small locales trying to be recognised though their literature, and draws links between local theory and more widely-known concepts.

Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Media

Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Media
Author: Brian McNair
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2006-04-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134960220

The reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev have brought tumultuous change to political, social and economic life in the Soviet Union. But how have these changes affected Soviet press and television reporting? Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Media examines the changing role of Soviet journalism from its theoretical origins in the writings of Marx and Lenin to the new freedoms of the Gorbachev era. The book includes detailed analysis of contemporary Soviet media output, as well as interviews with Soviet journalists.