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While interpreting long remained unaffected by the technological progress that transformed the translation industry recent years have witnessed a paradigm shift such that interpreters increasingly interact with technological tools that the delivery of interpreting services becomes increasingly dependent on technologies and finally that technologies start to emerge that might some day compete with interpreters. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>This volume brings together a series of contributions on interpreting technologies focusing on each of these aspects. Its goal is to inform and to empower interpreters as well as to spark new reflections on the future of technology in the interpreting industry. With this volume we want to encourage interpreters to participate in that reflection and to become partners of technology rather than its victims. The next generation of technologies will need a next generation of interpreters!

Professor Albert Costa (1972-2018) was one of the most influential scholars in the fields of psycholinguistics and bilingualism. This book provides a faithful look at the most relevant lines of research in which he worked during his academic career. Written by some of his close collaborators and friends the book presents a coherent summary of the most relevant psycholinguistic theories on language processing and bilingualism including critical reviews to current models of lexical access the representation of cognate words neurolinguistic models of bilingualism cross-linguistic effects in bimodal bilinguals (sign language) prediction processes and linguistic alignment in bilinguals the influence of foreign-language effects in social cognition and the effects of bilingualism in emotion and decision making processing. This volume is a tribute to Prof. Costa and his work and is born from a deep love and respect for his way of approaching the science of multilingualism from a psycholinguistic perspective.

What would it mean to invite disability into dialogue? Disability in Dialogue attunes us to the dialogues of and about disability. In the pages of this book we ask readers to consider the dialogic constitution of disability and to imagine its reformulation. We find the voices bodies social norms visceral experiences discourses and acts of resistance that materialize disability in all its dialogic and enfleshed complexity: tensions contradictions provocations frustrations and desires. This volume makes a unique contribution bringing together authors from disciplines as diverse as communication dialogue studies psychology sociology design rhetoric and activism. Because we take dialogue seriously this book is designed to be brave as we examine the ways of being in the world that dialogic practices engender and allow as well as beckon to continue. By way of a variety of frameworks such as discourse analysis dialogue studies narrative analysis and critical approaches to discourse the chapters of this book take us through a polylogue of and about disability demanding that we consider our own roles in bringing forth disabled ways of being and how we might instead choose ways that enable our common existence.

Religious and Identity Conversions to Islam: A Transatlantic Study of Spaniards and US latinos examines how two groups with historical cultural and linguistic commonalities redefine their new religious identity and make sense of their conversion to Islam not only as national groups but also as Hispanos. In short converts examine how history culture and language are utilized to make sense of their new religious identity and to legitimize their religious choices. History is then examined one that is rooted in pre-colonized Spain and not in colonizing Spain; culture is transformed by adopting new practices and omitting others; and language is strategized to redefine the new religious identity which is carried out through loanwords code-switching transferences and other linguistic strategies. In short this book represents the first transatlantic study of conversions to Islam among Spaniards and US latinos through the study of history culture and language.

This volume presents innovative research on the interface between pragmatics and translation. Taking a broad understanding of translation papers are presented in four different parts. Part I focuses on interpreting; Part II centers on the translation of fictional and non-fictional texts and spaces; Part III discusses audiovisual translation; and Part IV explores translation in a wider context that includes transforming senses and action into language. The issues that transpire as worth exploring in these areas are mediality and multi-modality interpersonal pragmatics close and approximate renditions interpretese and translationese participation structures and the negotiation of discourses and power.

The present volume offers a fresh perspective on political top-down crisis communication across several countries during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes how leaders address the growing awareness of the dangerous impact of social restrictions along with the controversies surrounding the first vaccination campaigns. Not limited to the Western world it also offers insights from six East European countries Uganda India and Palestine. Topics discussed range from inconsistent communication patterns to populist xenophobic accents propagandistic campaigns on vaccines the impact of authoritarian systems on crisis communication the contrast between scientific and African folk medicine and the use of war metaphors.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>By adopting a comparative perspective this volume contributes to the growing body of literature on crisis communication during the pandemic while highlighting important issues and perspectives that have yet to be extensively explored. Moreover it aims to bridge the gap between linguistic and communication research on leadership communication during times of crisis stimulating an interdisciplinary dialogue.

This book represents a detailed discussion and corpus analysis of Theme in English and German originals and translations. The empirical results are based on thousands of clauses from four different registers cover a variety of linguistic aspects including multiple Themes marked Themes participant roles agency and identifiability and are tested statistically using regression analyses. The book sheds light on one of the most elusive concepts of the systemic functional linguistics framework Theme by comparing it with different approaches related concepts and realizations in different languages and by examining empirically different Theme models contrastive differences and translation effects. Given that Theme in English and German is realized formally by being the first clause constituent and is thus effectively a syntactic phenomenon this monograph is not only relevant for functional linguists but any interested in English and German word order differences and their effects on translations.

The study departs from the observation that in expressing ideas some languages encode more details than others. It investigates whether languages encode events and/or objects at a coarse-grained (e.g. put glass) as opposed to a fine-grained (e.g. lay wine glass) level systematically. The level of detail is termed granularity which is viewed as a cline from fine-grained (semantic specificity) to coarse-grained meaning (semantic generality). Four languages are investigated: German English Greek and Turkish. The study draws on elicited data from a naming task. The verbalization of events is based on event and object descriptions in selected semantic domains. The results reveal significant granularity effects between languages and language types (satellite-framed vs. verb-framed). The study is relevant for scholars interested in linguistic typology lexical and semantic typology contrastive linguistics event representation psycholinguistics and cognitive semantics.

This volume brings together twelve empirical studies on ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages and their varieties past and present. Specifically the volume includes contributions on a wide variety of Germanic languages including English Dutch and German but also Danish Swedish and Norwegian as well as lesser-studied ones such as Faroese. While the first part of the volume focuses on diachronic aspects the second part showcases a variety of synchronic aspects relating to ditransitive patterns. Methodologically the volume covers both experimental and corpus-based studies. Questions addressed by the papers in the volume are among others issues like the cross-linguistic pervasiveness and cognitive reality of factors involved in the choice between different ditransitive constructions or differences and similarities in the diachronic development of ditransitives. The volume’s broad scope and comparative perspective offers comprehensive insights into well-known phenomena and furthers our understanding of variation across languages of the same family.

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Children’s Cultures after Childhood introduces theoretical concepts from new materialist and posthumanist childhood studies into research on children’s literature film and media texts with attention to the entanglements of which they are part. Thirteen chapters by international contributors from diverse disciplinary fields (literary studies cultural studies media studies education and childhood studies) offer a cross-section of empirical and theoretical approaches sharing an inspiration in the notion of “after childhoods” proposed by Peter Kraftl a children’s geographer to conceptualize theoretical and methodological orientations in research on children’s lives and on past present and future childhoods. This interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to scholars working in children’s literature and culture studies education and childhood studies.

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