LOAN TRANSLATION
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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LOAN TRANSLATION, also calque. A compound or complex
LOAN in which, rather than borrow an expression directly, speakers analyse the parts and replace them with similar native forms: AmE
skyscraper adopted into French as
gratte-ciel (scrape-sky), into German as
Wolkenkratzer (cloud-scrape).
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Ethnomasquerade in Ottoman-European encounters: reenacting Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
Magazine article from: Criticism; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...point of view: this was the year Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and her husband, the British...Empire, resided in Istanbul. Montagu's journey constitutes the beginning...her interest in Arabic, Mary Wortley Montagu developed a passion for...
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Books: Escape from worthy clots Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: comet of the Enlightenment by Isobel Grundy Oxford University Press, pounds 30, 680pp; Amanda Foreman traces the route of an intrepid poet, wit, satirist, traveller - and pioneer of vaccination
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/8/1999; ; 700+ words
; One of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's most beguiling portraits, by Jonathan Richardson, shows...scraps, and tied bundles in other collections. There is no Wortley Montagu MSS anywhere waiting obediently to be examined. This has made...
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and slavery in the Ottoman (and the British) Empire.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Thus far, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's writings about slavery...recent critical work on Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters...Turkish women. (1) Montagu challenges this Orientalist...reflection, Turkish ladies of quality, are seen...
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Books: Setting tongues wagging John Adamson on a life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the personification of Georgian radical chic
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 5/2/1999; ; 700+ words
; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment by Isobel Grundy Oxford, pounds 30...medical reformer, and aristocratic lady of fashion, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was one of the raciest and most talented women produced...
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Montagu's 'Turkish Embassy Letters' and cultural dislocation. (1717 missives written by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters, written from Turkey in...collaboratively across cultural lines.(1) Montagu describes her encounter with Turkish...English women in a domestic sphere, Montagu's letters may be read as an ethnography...
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Transgendered perspectives on premodern sexualities.(Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's poetry)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; When Lady Mary Pierrepont (1689-1762), the future Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, went on the marriage market...was conducting with Edward Wortley suggests that she had found...wills, and Lady Mary and Wortley's eventual union increasingly...
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"Written ex tempore" and the context of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's window writing.(Essays)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...who is deny'd. In 1713, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu composed the poem above, Written...the duties of a virtuous wife. Montagu's borrowings from well-known...window poem with a double aspect: Montagu's submissive espousal of the...
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 12/1/1999; 550 words
; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Isobel Grundy. Oxford University Press. [pounds]30.00...first Duke of Kingston and was born in 1689. She married Edward Wortley Montagu, M.P. and later Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Lady Mary...
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The aesthetics of intimacy: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and her readers.
Magazine article from: Papers on Language & Literature; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; I [Lady Holdernesse] is tenderly attach'd...excerpted from a letter of March, 1724, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu reveals a delightful intimacy with her...than the observance. That is to say, Lady Mary does not have to be specific because...
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Arguments through the ages; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: `The small-pox is here entirely harmless'.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 3/19/2001; 700+ words
; Editor's note: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was an accomplished poet and satirist...the heart of Your friend, etc. etc. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Letter to Mrs. S.C.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Well known throughout polite society for her wit and verse, English world traveller Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) also worked to introduce the practice of inoculation...
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Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health
MONTAGU, LADY MARY WORTLEY The celebrated eighteenth-century poet Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 – 1762), merits a place in public health history...
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Montagu, Ashley
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...Ashley 1905-1999 The anthropologist Ashley Montagu was born as Israel Ehrenberg into a poor Russian...changed his name to Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (he was an admirer of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [1689 – 1762]). He explained...
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John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandwich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...to Edward Richard Montagu, viscount Hinchinbroke...Elizabeth Popham Montagu. His father died...home of his uncle, Wortley Montagu, to whom he had...born in June 1745, Mary in February 1748...1752. After this Lady Sandwich's mind...
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Astell, Mary
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Mary Astell British...Proposal to the Ladies and Some Reflections...Proposal to the Ladies she reflects...befriended by Lady Catherine Jones...Chudleigh, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu numbered among...Proposal to the Ladies and Mr. John...
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