Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics (Volume II): Volume 2
About this ebook
The present book is the second of two volumes containing a selection from the approximately 120 papers that were presented at that three-day event. The book comprises five chapters, reflecting different research perspectives on cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication. The first chapter covers research articles on metaphors and planned languages. The second chapter comprises articles dealing with language attitudes, language proficiency and language practices in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural, communicative contexts. Chapter three features articles in the field of discourse-analysis research. In the fourth chapter research is presented that pertains to terminology and specialised languages. Finally, chapter five deals with translation studies.
About the author
Jeroen Darquennes; main research interests lie in the domain of sociolinguistics and contact linguistics. His work (for example on the status of German in Belgium) has appeared in several collective volumes and journals. He currently is assistant professor at the University of Namur where he teaches German and general linguistics and is affiliated to the Fryske Akademy/Mercator Research Centre in Ljouwert/Leeuwarden (the Netherlands).
Koen Kerremans is a PhD researcher at the Centrum voor Vaktaal en Communicatie, a research centre at the Erasmus University College Brussels (Department of Applied Linguistics). His main research interests range from ontologies and knowledge management to translation, special languages and terminology. His work has appeared in journals such as Terminology and Linguistica Antverpiensia.
Rita Temmerman teaches translation studies and terminology theory at the Erasmus University College Brussels, where she co-ordinates the Centrum voor Vaktaal en Communicatie, a research centre in applied sociocognitive terminology. Her wider research interests include translation, terminology, knowledge management, multilingualism and cross-cultural communication. She has published a monograph with John Benjamins and multiple articles in collective volumes and journals such as Terminology.
