Translated texts are often either uncritically consumed by readers, teacher, and scholars or seen to represent an ineluctable loss, a diminishing of original te

The book presents a new theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. The fundamental view is that language

This volume seeks to answers such questions as: how is conscious experience translated into discourse? How are foregrounding and backgrounding accomplished? Wha

This volume explores various hitherto under-researched relationships between languages and their discourse-cultural settings. The first two sections analyze the

This book examines the linkage between literacy and linguistic diversity, embedding them in their social and cultural contexts. It illustrates that a more compl