The object of this volume is the study of missionary translation practices which occur within a colonial context of political domination and spiritual conquest. Missionary translation becomes especially manifest in bilingual ethnographic descriptions, in (bilingual) catechisms a…
Spanning from care-giving infants and civilian rescuers risking their life to the collapse of empathy in agents of torture and extinction, this unique book deals with and illustrates the altruistic best and atrocious worst of human nature. It begins with infant roots of empathy,…
The Low Countries are famous for their radically changing landscape over the last 1,000 years. Like the landscape, the linguistic situation has also undergone major changes. In Holland, an early form of Frisian was spoken until, very roughly, 1100, and in parts of North Holland …
This volume features a set of selected peer-reviewed articles, which represent cutting-edge research by some prominent scholars and some promising researchers in the field. The articles cover a wide range of areas in Arabic linguistics. They also feature a good number of Arabic …
This volume covers aspects of opera translation within the Western world and in Asia, as well as some of opera's many travels between continents, countries, languages and cultures-and also between genres and media. The concept of 'adaptation' is a thread running through the sixt…
Mood, modality and evidentiality are popular and dynamic areas in linguistics. 'Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions - Categories, co-text, and context' focuses on the specific issue of the ways language users express permission, obligation, volition (intention), possibility and …
This volume encompasses a thorough examination of the use of request strategies on two contrastive dimensions. On the cross-cultural dimension, it compares the use of British and American English request strategies in naturally occurring informal conversations. The conversationa…
