Italian-English False Friends in bi- and multilingual class environment

Dr. Paschalis Chliaras (author-researcher)

Edizioni La Creazione (Publishing House)


English words that resemble words in Italian but have different meanings and  cause bafflement and mistaken usage. 

The book contains definitions of False Friends, Cognates and Partial Cognates, some examples of Italian-English False Friends and Italian and English Expressions, Italian-English False Friends and Semantics/Pragmatics and English and Italian language varieties. In addition, readers may read about Synonymy, Polysemy, Homonymy, Homoglyphy and Pseudo-anglicisms.