This book brings together for the first time the work of the two translator/scholars who are regarded as founders of this major field of study. It continues ...

The book focuses on investigating pragmatic learning, teaching and testing in foreign language contexts. It brings together research that investigates ...

This book takes a linguistic approach to translation issues. It includes chapters on the structural view of language, theories of cultural non-equivalence ...

This book provides a case study of dual-language planning and implementation at a Spanish-English public elementary school program in Washington, DC. It ...

Joshua Fishman is perhaps best known and loved for his pioneering and enduring work in language loyalty and reversing language shift. This book brings ...

Biliteracy is an inescapable feature of lives and schools worldwide, yet is often ignored by educational policymakers. This volume offers an extensive ...

This book brings together theoretical and practical debates from adult literacy and language education with those of creative writing and community publishing ...

This book provides an overview of interpreting at the start of the twenty first century. As well as explaining the different types of interpreting and ...

Research across a number of disciplines has in recent years contributed to a rapidly developing knowledge and understanding of the cross-cultural transformation ...

This book shows how translation is affected by pragmatic factors such as the acts performed by people when they use language. It is clearly of direct relevance ...