Language in the digital era: challenges and perspectives

This collected volume brings together the contributions of several humanities scholars who focus on the evolution of language in the digital era. The first part of the volume explores general aspects of humanities and linguistics in the digital environment. The second part focuses on language and translation and includes topics that discuss the digital translation policy, new technologies and specialised translation, online resources for terminology management, translation of online advertising, or subtitling. The last part of the book focuses on language teaching and learning and addresses the changes, challenges and perspectives of didactics in the age of technology. Each contribution is divided into several sections that present the state of the art and the methodology used, and discuss the results and perspectives of the authors. The book is recommended to scholars, professionals, students and anyone interested in the changes within the humanities in conjunction with technological innovation or in the ways language is adapting to the challenges of today's digitized world. ABSTRACTING & INDEXING Language in the Digital Era. Challenges and Perspectives is covered by the following services: Baidu Scholar DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) EBSCO Discovery Service Google Books Google Scholar J-Gate Naviga (Softweco) Primo Central (ExLibris) ReadCube Summon (ProQuest) TDOne (TDNet) WorldCat (OCLC)

Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Notes on the editorial board and contributors --; Part I: Humanities Gone Digital --; 1. Recent Trends in Digital Humanities Scholarship --; 2. Theme-Rheme Analysis of English and Romanian Tourism Websites --; 3. Necessary and Luxury English Loanwords in Some Romanian Online Newspapers and Magazines --; 4 Corpus Linguistics Outcomes and Applications in the Digital Era --; Part II: Language and Translation: From Pen and Paper to the Electronic Environment --; 5. Towards a Digital Translation Policy --; 6. The Impact of New Technologies on Specialised Translation --; 7. The Transfer of Signs between Heterogeneous Systems: Incongruent Equivalences --; 8. Evaluating Online Resources for Terminology Management in Legal Translation --; 9. To Delete or to Add? Omissions and Additions in Two Romanian Translations of Jack and the Beanstalk --; 10. A Standards-Based Contrastive Analysis of Online and Printed Technical Translations in Romanian --; 11. Extratextual Elements in Subtitling - The Battle of Linguistic and Cultural Codes --; 12. Subtitling in Romania and Spain: A Contrastive Analysis --; Part III: Language Teaching and Learning in the Age of Technology --; 13. Digital Literacy and the Challenges in Digital Technologies for Learning --; 14. On the Use of Hypermediality in Teaching Culture in German as a Foreign Language Context --; 15. Online Communication - Netspeak --; 16. Young English Learners in the Digital Age --; 17. Training and Development in the Digital Era --; 18. Developing Communication Skills in Romania in the Digital Era --; List of Figures --; List of Tables