Hakutulokset: Sarja Intercultural Studies and Foreign Language Learning
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Translation and Philosophy
To what extent is philosophy reliant on translation and how does this practice impact on philosophy itself? How should philosophical texts be translated? Is translation inherently …
Investigating Hong Kong English
The status of Hong Kong English has been an increasing concern among the local population. Despite prolific research into attitudes towards language variation within the field of …
Cultural and Linguistic Encounters
Idioms are universal to all languages, and figurative language is pervasive in everyday discourse. However, idiom studies rarely touch on the problems figurative language can …
Supporting Internationalisation through Languages and Culture in the Twenty-First-Century University
‘Internationalisation’ is a key issue impacting on higher education today, but what is actually meant by this term and how does it relate to the notion of ‘global citizenship’, …
Teaching and Testing Interpreting and Translating
The book presents a range of theoretical and practical approaches to the teaching of the twin professions of interpreting and translating, covering a variety of language pairs. All …
Developing Criticality in Practice Through Foreign Language Education
Many universities have adopted criticality as a general aim of higher education, in order to meet the demands of an increasingly globalised world. But what is criticality, and how …
Literary Texts and Intercultural Learning
This book offers new perspectives on the pedagogical value of literary texts. The book is, in the first place, a theoretical study – speculative in nature – about the inherent …
Intercultural Competence
This book explores the idea of ‘intercultural competence’, which, despite its current popularity across various discourses, has remained a vague and oscillating concept. …
Foreign Language Learning as Intercultural Experience
Learning a foreign language in its cultural context has a significant effect on the subjective mind, ranging from the unsettling to the inspirational. The complex interplay between …
Emotion and identity in second language learning
This book brings together 18 theoretical and empirical chapters that analyse the role of emotion (expression, perception, processing) and identity (notions and representations, …