Robert de Beaugrande

List of John Benjamins publications in which Robert de Beaugrande is involved.

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Language, Discourse and Translation in the West and Middle East

Edited by Robert de Beaugrande, Abdullah Shunnaq and Mohamed Helmy Heliel

The papers collected in this volume are a selection of papers presented at a conference on Language and Translation (Irbid, Jordan, 1992). In their revised form, they offer comparisons between Western and Arabic language usage and transfer. The articles bring together linguistic and cultural… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 7] 1994. xii, 256 pp.

Beaugrande, Robert de 2022 Text linguistics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1394–1403 | Chapter

Beaugrande, Robert de 2011 Text linguistics Discursive Pragmatics, Zienkowski, Jan, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 286–296 | Article

Beaugrande, Robert de 2007 Corpora at your fingertips. Review of Sinclair, J. (ed.) 2004. How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching Words, grammar, text: revisiting the work of John Sinclair, Moon, Rosamund (ed.), pp. 289–296 | Miscellaneous

Beaugrande, Robert de 2003 ‘There’s no such thing as syntax — and it’s a good thing, too…’ Language and Function: To the memory of Jan Firbas, Hladký, Josef (ed.), pp. 23–37 | Article

Beaugrande, Robert de 2001 1. Large corpora, small corpora, and the learning of “language” Small Corpus Studies and ELT: Theory and practice, Ghadessy, Mohsen, Alex Henry and Robert L. Roseberry (eds.), pp. 3–30 | Article

Beaugrande, Robert de 1999 Reconnecting Real Language with Real Texts: Text Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 4:2, pp. 243–259 | Article

The connections between language and text (or "langue and parole, " or "competence and performance, " etc.) have been thoroughly obscured by a long-standing tendency to attribute an ideal order to language which is not reflected in texts and then to conclude that texts are too disorderly to be… read more

Beaugrande, Robert de 1998 On 'usefulness' and 'validity' in the theory and practice of linguistics: A riposte to H. G. Widdowson Functions of Language 5:1, pp. 85–96 | Article

Beaugrande, Robert de 1997 Linguistics — systemic and functional: Renewing the ‘warrant’ Reconnecting Language: Morphology and Syntax in Functional Perspectives, Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie, Kristin Davidse and Dirk Noël (eds.), pp. 49–72 | Article

Beaugrande, Robert de 1997 The Conscious and Unconscious Mind’ in the theoretical Discourse of Modern Linguistics Language Structure, Discourse and the Access to Consciousness, Stamenov, Maxim I. (ed.), pp. 9–48 | Article

Beaugrande, Robert de 1997 On history and historicity in modern linguistics: Formalism versus functionalism revisited Functions of Language 4:2, pp. 169–213 | Article

Beaugrande, Robert de 1995 Text linguistics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 536–544 | Article

Beaugrande, Robert de 1994 Consultations, conferences, and proceedings: their role as discourse transactions Language, Discourse and Translation in the West and Middle East, Beaugrande, Robert de, Abdullah Shunnaq and Mohamed Helmy Heliel (eds.), pp. 221–246 | Article

Beaugrande, Robert de 1994 Cognition, communicatio, translation, instruction: The geopolitics of discourse Language, Discourse and Translation in the West and Middle East, Beaugrande, Robert de, Abdullah Shunnaq and Mohamed Helmy Heliel (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article

Beaugrande, Robert de 1994 Function and form in language theory and research: The tide is turning Functions of Language 1:2, pp. 163–200 | Article

It is argued that many of the major notions in 'mainstream' linguistic theory and method over the years have been influenced by a 'classical formalist' ambience that suited conventional ideas about how science ought to proceed but fostered an idealized 'frozen' conception of the language system in… read more

Beaugrande, Robert de 1994 Factionalism versus Formalism in East and West The Syntax of Sentence and Text: A Festschrift for František Daneš, Čmejrková, Svĕtla and František Štícha (eds.), pp. 29–42 | Article

Beaugrande, Robert de 1993 Wolfgang Heinemann and Dieter Viehweger. Textlinguistik. Eine Einführung Studies in Language 17:2, pp. 506–509 | Squib

Beaugrande, Robert de 1991 Coincidence in Translation: Glory and Misery Again Target 3:1, pp. 17–53 | Article

An important factor impeding the development of explicit theories of translation has been the centrality of coincidence. Skilled translating consists not of following rules or algorithms of equivalence, but of generating coincidences between the materials of the source language and those of the… read more