Generational Literalism

Pragmatic translation and literalism

Characteristicsofthereadership.Thepragmaticfactorhastwoelements. The first is relatively extra-contextual and relates to the reader's characteristics, some of which (subject knowledge, linguistic level, SL cultural familiarity) may be considered to be more relevant or important than others (such as social class, age, sex and the time elapsed since the writing of the SL text). Pragmatic translat...

Vestigial Literalism in the Interpretation of Corporate Financing Instruments

* Associate Professor, University of Missouri. J.D., University of Virginia; S.M. & S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author wishes to acknowledge the generous financial support of the Forrest L. Thompson Faculty Achievement Award. Copyright © 2014 Royce de R. Barondes. All rights reserved. A number of cases discussed below are included in the excellent casebook, RICHARD T. MCDER...

Generational Policy

Generational policy is a fundamental aspect of a nation's fiscal affairs. The policy involves redistributing resources across generations and allocating to particular generations the burden of paying the government's bills. This chapter of the second edition of The Handbook of Public Economics shows how generational policy works, how it's measured, and how much it matters to virtual as well as ...

Generational bridge

"Generational" malaise.