This wide-ranging collection brings together essays on a recent approach to translation known as transcreation, which has challenged the traditional structure of the translation market and the agency and ethics of the discipline, and encouraged new research in translation studies
ESP has accumulated substantial tradition in practice, research and theory, and is a common approach in English Language Teaching among adults today. This text explores research conducted in this field in order to assist its recognition as an autonomous academic discipline.
Totalitarian (In)Experience in Literary Works and Their Translations
This book explores totalitarianism in 20th century literature through a cross-linguistic analysis of works by Huxley, Orwell, Miłosz, and Konwicki. Using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage framework, it examines how the totalitarian experience shaped their writing.
This book offers a transcription of Elizabeth Jacob’s hitherto unedited Early Modern English remedy-book, Physicall and chyrurgicall receipts. Accompanied by linguistic and codicological analysis, it is a primary source for historical linguistics and the history of medicine.
My Utopia
This collection of creative writing demonstrates that utopian thinking is beyond any gender, race, age, color, nationality or border limitations. The short fiction, essays and poems here will be of great interest to anyone who believes in the power of literature in forcing change
The Nuts and Bolts of Arabic-English Translation
This book contrasts Arabic and English beyond traditional grammar, covering stylistics, cohesion, text-typology, and semantics. It develops professional translation competence in students and trainees by providing a wide range of bidirectional practice materials.
Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise
This volume explores various aspects of corporate communication from the viewpoint of language and discourse, giving special attention to emerging issues and recent developments in times of rapid sociotechnical evolutions.
This book presents twelve papers on the use of Languages for Specific Purposes (LSPs) throughout history. From Antiquity to the present time, contributors analyse how LSPs emerged both in Europe and in other parts of the world, such as Judea, North America, and China.
Translation as Criticism
This work explores the microcosm of Elizabeth Jolley’s Mr Scobie’s Riddle, analyzing its Australian themes, curious characters, and entertaining voices. It provides a new translation to take Italian readers on a journey into the world of the novel.
Most deception research is North American-centric and ignores our digital lives. This book provides insights into computer-mediated deception across cultures, namely Poland and the USA, examining how cultural values affect deceptive communication and its detection online.
In Pakistan, Board Examinations encourage students to memorize essays, damaging learners’ creative talents. This book investigates the negative impact on classroom practice and argues that changes to the examination system and textbooks will improve teaching and assessment.
Balkan and South Slavic Enclaves in Italy
This volume deals with several Balkan linguistic varieties spoken in north-eastern, central and southern Italy. It presents new empirical findings and reflects the diversity of current research in the fields of areal linguistics, language variation, and Balkan dialectology.
Contextualising English as a Lingua Franca
This volume collects ten papers testifying to the great scope of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research. The contributions analyze computer-mediated communication, social issues in diverse contexts, and new pedagogical initiatives, situating ELF in its multilingual future.
This book explores staff and student perceptions of English as the medium of instruction (EMI) in Pakistani universities. It examines attitudes towards Pakistani English and exposes the gap between EMI policy and practice, revealing multi-layered issues.
The Internet’s new language balances expressiveness and speed. To convey emotion, users use pictographic symbols in a system that echoes ancient hieroglyphs. Will this virtual society become a counter-power to bureaucratic systems and penetrate the real?
Teaching Languages and Cultures
Explore diverse perspectives on language and culture teaching in a globalized world. This volume offers insights into foreign language instruction, intercultural competence, and learning strategies for researchers and practitioners in Europe and beyond.
While educational systems are culture-bound, our globalized world needs a shared understanding of teaching a language. This book offers a framework for a non-culture-bound theory of language education, providing a common core that goes beyond national standards and guidelines.
Food and Drink Idioms in English
Idioms carry an aura of mystery for all speakers, due to the discrepancy between their literal and non-literal meanings. This monograph clears up some of these ambiguities by examining expressions that have derived from the most instinctive human behaviour: eating and drinking.
Languages in Action
This anthology includes a selection of papers on linguistics presented at the 14th Conference on British and American Studies. It discusses syntactic, morphological and lexico-semantic aspects of English and Romanian, issues of language contact, and the construction of meaning.
The English language is used as a second or foreign language in countries which had once been British colonies. Here, Shoro provides educational institutions with simple and practical language-learning courses which fulfil the requirements of those wanting to learn English.
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