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FOREWORD
after a survey of some basic concepts in pragmatics, studies on other language
pairs are presented, inviting students to draw their own conclusions relating
to Hungarian and English. Issues of the importance and methods of teaching
pragmatics are also discussed.
Chapter 11 deals with CL and translation. A summary of basic translation
studies concepts is given. In studying this chapter readers can usefully refer
back to earlier chapters, which sometimes overlap the material included here.
Chapter 12 summarizes the most general differences between English and
Hungarian.
It should be noted that, since the book covers contrasts at several linguistic
levels, it may provide a good opportunity for students to recapitulate or com¬
plement some of the material covered earlier in their linguistics courses at the
university — phonetics, syntax, lexicology, pragmatics and translation, showing
the relevance of these disciplines for foreign language learning and teaching
and providing an integrative framework through the study of CL.
As indicated above, this book is not intended to be a theoretical treatise or
a scientific monograph, and its job is not to provide a detailed background to
the various linguistic disciplines touched upon or to introduce students to the
most important new developments in the field. Accordingly, the number of
references to general linguistic theories is limited. In a similar way, it was
considered unnecessary to give exact references to the sources of example
sentences and texts from well-known literary pieces.
The book contains a large number of exercises and home assignments. Many
of these involve translation into English, since linguistic contrasts have a par¬
ticularly strong effect on L2—L2 translation, and creating communicative
situations in which L1—-L2 contrasts affect the linguistic forms used in L2 is a
difficult task. Since there are probably more exercises than can be done and
checked in class, it is up to the teacher running the course to decide which
tasks they want to use or perhaps replace with better ones. The book provides
a framework that can be expanded or downsized, depending on the time avail¬
able.
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