Bringing our languages home

Thirteen autobiographical accounts of language revitalization, ranging from Irish Gaelic to Mohawk, Kawaiisu to Māori, are brought together by Leanne Hinton, professor emerita of linguistics at UC Berkeley.Throughout the world individuals in the intimacy of their homes innovate, improvise, and st...

The challenge of subtitling offensive and taboo language into spanish

This book presents a clear and concise guide to understanding the concepts of offensive and taboo language and how this type of language can be subtitled into Spanish for Spain. It includes an array of examples from recent films and TV series as well as exercises which allow the reader to put the...

Translanguaging in translation

This book brings applied linguistics and translation studies together through an analysis of literary texts in Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Korean and their translations. It brings a new dimension to the burgeoning field of translanguaging studies and highlights the role of translation in the dev...

Trauma-informed applied linguistics

This book explores how applied linguistics can work more ethically and sympathetically through trauma-informed approaches. It considers the positionality of asylum seekers, the narrative construction of traumatic events, trauma-informed interviewing, interpreting and teaching, and the risk of vic...

Urdu-english/english-urdu practical dictionary