Semantics and Pragmatics of False Friends

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.Chamizo-Dominguez, Pedro J. is the author of 'Semantics and Pragmatics of False Friends ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415957205 and ISBN 0415957206.