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Author Rata, Georgeta

Title Agricultural English
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (383 pages)
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; FOREWORD; CHAPTER ONE; PRACTICES ASSOCIATED WITH SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS; THE VOCABULARY OF ECOLOGY; COMPOUNDS WITH AND DERIVATIVES OF CEREAL NAMES; DERIVATIVES WITH -CIDE IN THE VOCABULARY OF PESTICIDES; COMBINING FORMS: BI(O); COMBINING FORMS: ECO; COMPOUNDS WITH CULTURE; COMPOUNDS WITH TREE; ENGLISH VERBS OF ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; CHAPTER TWO; AGRICULTURAL ENTOMOLOGY; 'VERBAL N + N' COMPOUNDS IN AGRICULTURAL ENTOMOLOGY; 'N + V-ING + N' COMPOUNDS IN AGRICULTURAL ENTOMOLOGY; CHAPTER THREE; PRECISION AGRICULTURE TERMINOLOGY
NAMES OF WEEDSTHE VOCABULARY OF IRRIGATION; 'BERRY' OR 'BERRYLIKE'; SPECIAL TYPES OF TOURISM; CHAPTER FOUR; LANGUAGE TRAPS; HOMONYMY AND SYNONYMY; DEFINING CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES ASSOCIATED WITH SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS; HOMONYMY; COFFEE; SEMANTIC FIELDS; CHAPTER FIVE; ENGLISH IDIOMS CONTAINING NAMES OF PLANTS; UNIVERSAL VS. CULTURE-SPECIFIC IN THE DISCOURSE OF ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL RHETORIC; CREATIVE METAPHORS IN POISONOUS PLANT NAMES; CHAPTER SIX; WORDS OF LATIN ORIGIN IN BOTANICAL ENGLISH; SEEDS AND SEEDLING; COMMON NAMES OF PLANT DISEASES; SPICES; LAND MEASUREMENT UNITS
WORDS OF LATIN ORIGIN IN THE ENGLISH OF ZOOLOGYCHAPTER SEVEN; AGRICULTURAL TERMINOLOGY IN MULTICULTURAL COMMUNICATION; ROMANIAN AGRICULTURAL TERMS AND THEIR ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS; ENGLISH LOANWORDS IN THE ROMANIAN LAND IMPROVEMENT VOCABULARY; NAMES OF FODDER PLANTS IN ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN; ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN NAMES OF PLANTS IN FOOD ADDITIVES GUIDES; ENGLISH PLANT NAMES AND THEIR GERMAN COUNTERPARTS; ENGLISH PLANT NAMES AND THEIR ROMANIAN COUNTERPARTS; COMMON NAMES OF YELLOW WILD FLOWERS IN ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN; TRUE AND FALSE BERRIES IN ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN
METAPHORS IN COMPOUND ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN PLANT NAMESNAMES OF PESTS IN ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN; COMMON NAMES OF PLANT DISEASES IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH; COMMON NAMES OF PLANT DISEASES IN ROMANIAN AND ENGLISH; DOG BREEDS IN CROATIAN AND ROMANIAN; VERBS OF ANIMAL COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, AND ROMANIAN; ENGLISH ANIMAL IDIOMS AND THEIR ROMANIAN EQUIVALENTS (I); ENGLISH ANIMAL IDIOMS AND THEIR ROMANIAN EQUIVALENTS (II); ENGLISH LOANWORDS IN THE ROMANIAN OF AGRI-TOURISM INTERNET SITES; CONTRIBUTORS
Summary Agricultural English is a collection of essays on the English of Agriculture. The approach is a linguistic one: the different aspects of the English used in the field of agriculture (agricultural practices, agricultural systems) and in some fields related to agriculture (agricultural zoology, agri-tourism, biology, botany, ecology, entomology, gastronomy, land measurement, plant pathology, zoology) are analysed from a morphological (combination, derivation), syntactical (nominal phrases, verb ..
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Subject English philology.
Agriculture -- Terminology.
English language -- Dialects -- Great Britain
Language.
English language teaching (ELT).
ELT: English for specific purposes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Agriculture
English language -- Dialects
English philology
Great Britain
Genre/Form Terminology
Form Electronic book
Author Sala, Florin
Samfira, Ionel
LC no. 2012451008
ISBN 9781443839617
1443839612