TY - BOOK ID - 135523906 TI - Semantics and pragmatics of false friends PY - 2008 SN - 1135908613 1283607468 9786613919915 1135908621 0203941772 PB - New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Translating and interpreting. KW - Semantics. KW - Pragmatics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135523906 AB - This book approaches the topic of false friends from a theoretical perspective, arguing that false friends carry out a positive role as a cognitive device, mainly in literature and jokes, and suggesting some pragmatic strategies in order to restore the original sense of a text/utterance when a given translator (or a foreign speaker) falls victim to false friends. This theoretical account is successively verified by appealing to texts from the fields of literature, science, philosophy, journalism, and everyday speech. ER -