Contacts and Contrasts in Cultures and Languages

Contacts and Contrasts in Cultures and Languages
Author: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2019-02-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3030049817

This volume provides descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena as well as processes that emerge at the interface of languages and cultures in the context of contrastive and contact linguistics and media discourse. Different contexts are explored with rich empirical findings and authentic exemplifying materials. The book includes fifteen papers, divided into three parts. Part 1 addresses conceptual reflection on languages and cultures in contact and contrast, while Part 2 focuses on contact linguistics and borrowing. Part 3 discusses cultural and linguistic aspects of media discourses.

Language and Culture

Language and Culture
Author: Karen Risager
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1853598585

The book presents a new theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. The fundamental view is that languages spread across cultures, and cultures spread across languages, or in other words, that linguistic and cultural practices flow through social networks in the world along partially different paths and across national structures and communities.

Languages and Cultures in Contact

Languages and Cultures in Contact
Author: Karel van Lerberghe
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Total Pages: 572
Release: 1999
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9789042907195

This volume contains 33 papers presented at the 42th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale held at the University of Leuven in July 1995. The main purpose of the conference on Languages and Cultures in Contact was to focus on contacts and exchanges between the various cultures in the Syro-Mesopotamian realm by re-evaluating the geographical limits of 'Mesopotamian' civilization to include the Upper- and Middle-Euphrates regions of Syria. These proceedings cover areas of research in the fields of philology, archaeology and history alike. They bring together essays on a great number of topics, including comparative linguistics, the spread of literacy and administrative practices, cultural exchanges, diffusion and acculturation. Finally the book contains reports on current excavations and surveys in the Ancient Near East.

Discourse Across Languages and Cultures

Discourse Across Languages and Cultures
Author: Carol Lynn Moder
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027230782

This volume seeks to answers such questions as: how is conscious experience translated into discourse? How are foregrounding and backgrounding accomplished? What is the function of features like lexical choice and referential choice? And many more.

Language and Culture in the Intercultural World

Language and Culture in the Intercultural World
Author: Vesna Mikolič
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2020-12-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1527563421

The intensification of contacts between cultures and languages has a major impact on all social spheres today. Multiculturalism and multilingualism are important elements of the local, regional, national and global community. Much of the world’s conflict stems from the contrast between globalization and nationalism, fuelled by religions, racial divisions, traditions and other cultural particularities. Focusing mainly on the situation in Central and South-eastern Europe, this book addresses how cultural identities develop through tourism, education, literature and other social fields, and how language and literature teaching should be planned in this context. It consists of the following sections: Language, Culture and Tourism; Interculturalism, Multilingualism and Approaches to Language Learning; and Culture in Literature and Translation. The volume will be of interest to teachers and researchers of cultural and tourism studies, linguistics and language learning, literary studies and translation, while also addressing wider readers interested in contemporary intercultural society.

Translation as Communication across Languages and Cultures

Translation as Communication across Languages and Cultures
Author: Juliane House
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2015-10-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317362667

In this interdisciplinary book, Juliane House breaks new ground by situating translation within Applied Linguistics. In thirteen chapters, she examines translation as a means of communication across different languages and cultures, provides a critical overview of different approaches to translation, of the link between culture and translation, and between views of context and text in translation. Featuring an account of translation from a linguistic-cognitive perspective, House covers problematic issues such as the existence of universals of translation, cases of untranslatability and ways and means of assessing the quality of a translation. Recent methodological and research avenues such as the role of corpora in translation and the effects of globalization processes on translation are presented in a neutral, non-biased manner. The book concludes with a thorough, historical account of the role of translation in foreign language learning and teaching and a discussion of new challenges and problems of the professional practice of translation in our world today. Written by a highly experienced teacher and researcher in the field, Translation as Communication across Languages and Cultures is an essential resource for students and researchers of Translation Studies, Applied Linguistics and Communication Studies.

Bridging Languages and Cultures II – Linguistics, Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication

Bridging Languages and Cultures II – Linguistics, Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication
Author: Guntars Dreijers
Publisher: Frank & Timme GmbH
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2020-10-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3732907058

Translation Studies are facing new tasks to take account of and to discuss the changing translation environment with new approaches and new tools for description, analysis, and teaching activities. Bridging Languages and Cultures II combines current viewpoints in Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication. The volume provides both specific foci on certain aspects and developments, and a more general overview of research landscape in Latvia, and internationally. The authors discuss translation of Language for Special Purposes (LSP) and literary texts, various interdisciplinary linguistic modules by bridging history and methodology of Translation Studies, aesthetic, and interactional aspects of translation, as well as intercultural phenomena in the context of translation and linguistics.

Exploring Business Language and Culture

Exploring Business Language and Culture
Author: Urszula Michalik
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2020-11-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3030585514

This book aims to present the results of research in the sphere of business language and culture, as well as the experience of pedagogical staff and practitioners concerned with broadly understood business. The highly complex nature of contemporary business environment, approached from both the theoretical and practical standpoint, does not cease to prove that research into business studies cannot be dissociated from the cultural and linguistic context. The chapters included in this book were contributed by academics and practitioners alike, which offers a balanced approach to the topic and ensures high levels of diversity together with an undeniable homogeneity. They were gathered with a view to show various aspects of business language, perceived both as a medium of communication and as a subject of research and teaching. They are concerned with business culture as well, including business ethics and representations of business in popular culture. Owing to its multidisciplinary approach, the book presents a roadmap towards successful functioning in business settings, highlighting such issues as education for business purposes, the study of language used in business contexts, the aspects of cross-cultural communication, as well as ethical behaviour based upon different values in multicultural business environments. Given its multifarious character, the book surely appeals not only to academics, but also to the interested laymen and students who wish to expand their knowledge of business studies and related phenomena.

Between Languages and Cultures

Between Languages and Cultures
Author: Rosemary Chapman
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2009-04-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0773575804

Gabrielle Roy is one of the best-known figures of Québec literature, yet she spent much of the first thirty years of her life studying, working, and living in English. For Roy, as a member of Manitoba's francophone minority, bilingualism was a necessary strategy for survival and success. How did this bilingual and bicultural background help shape her work as a writer in French? The implications of her linguistic and cultural identity are explored in chapters looking at education, language, translation, and the representation of Canada's other minorities, from the immigrants in Western Canada to the Inuit of Ungava. What emerges is a new reading of Roy's work. Drawing on archival material, postcolonial theory, and translation studies, Between Languages and Cultures explores the traces and effects of Roy's intimate knowledge of English language and culture, challenging and augmenting the established view that her work is distinctly French-Canadian or Québécois.

Language and Culture in Medieval Britain

Language and Culture in Medieval Britain
Author: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2013
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1903153476

The essays in this volume form a new cultural history focused round, but not confined to, the presence and interactions of francophone speakers, writers, readers, texts and documents in England from the 11th to the later 15th century.