By Tina Hickey, Jenny Williams
Language, schooling and Society in a altering international brings jointly fresh study in language making plans, bilingualism, translation, discourse research, cultural understanding, moment language studying and primary and moment language literacy. professional participants, together with John Edwards, Rosamond Mitchell, Bernard Spolsky and Andrew Cohen, handle the various concerns dealing with language academics, researchers and coverage makers in an international the place languages have gotten extinct at an alarming expense and are often a spotlight for dispute and clash; the place overseas language educating and studying are faced by way of new technological and functional calls for; and the place glossy conversation media require the improvement of latest linguistic thoughts. those elements, including the continuing gradual financial and academic improvement within the 3rd global, the place entry to a 'world language' is frequently promoted as an instructional panacea, current utilized Linguistics with significant philosophical in addition to sensible difficulties. Drawing on learn from North the USA, the ecu Union, Guatemala, Japan, Nigeria and Russia, this assortment underlines the interdisciplinary nature of the demanding situations dealing with utilized Linguistics on the finish of the 20th century.
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The opinions expressed in the book are the sole responsibility of the authors themselves. The editors wish to acknowledge the assistance of the IRAAL Conference Organising Committee, the Scientific Programme Committee and the Executive Committee. We are also grateful to Eoghan Mac Aogáin, the director of Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann, and ITÉ staff, for their help. We would like to thank the contributors for their co-operation and we also wish to record our gratitude to Anne O'Neill for her invaluable assistance during the conference and in preparing this manuscript.
Rejecting the introspective method as theoretically unsound, they build on recent work in cognitive linguistics to delineate the parameters of a cognitive theory of translation. Focusing on another challenge for translation studies, O'Connell discusses the European-wide demand for media translation, with reference to her own experience in sub-titling. She touches on the technical aspects of translating for film and television, and draws out the implications of media translation for language policy and planning.
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