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

Download or read book Bridging Languages and Cultures II – Linguistics, Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication written by Guntars Dreijers and published by Frank & Timme GmbH. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.