Editorial
Linguistics and Translation Studies
Dear Reader,
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n this catalogue you will find an overview of Peter Lang publications in Linguistics and Translation Studies: our highlights, our recent titles, and selected
series. As a long-established and internationally positioned publishing group, Peter Lang offers a diverse range of high-quality publications in Linguistics and Translation Studies. Highlights include Susan Petrilli’s The Global World and its Manifold Faces: Otherness as the Basis of Communication (page 7), the very first volume of our newly launched series Reflections on Signs and Language (page 71); Mei Yang’s Carrying a Torch: The Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in the British and Chinese Media, an analysis of the torch relay and its representation, offering a discursive construction of Olympic ideology by and through the media in both East and West (page 11); or Martin Pütz and Neele Mundt’s Vanishing Languages in Context: Ideological, Attitudinal and Social Identity Perspectives, which explores the dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why this matters, and what can be done and achieved to document and support endangered languages especially in the context of an ever-increasing globalized world (page 9). Peter Lang offers a broad spectrum of academic research that covers the latest trends and debates within Linguistics and Translation Studies. This is illustrated by series such as Historical Sociolinguistics: Studies on Language and Society in the Past, a series which provides empirically supported studies that challenge and advance current language historiographies, which often continue to present the history of particular languages as necessarily leading to the creation of a standard or prestige variety (page 65); Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication, which aims to promote specialist language studies, both in the fields of linguistic theory and applied linguistics, that provide valuable insights into language and communication research (page 66); or New Trends in Translation Studies, which promotes the scholarly study of translation and interpreting and sets out to reflect new trends in research and in the profession, to encourage flexible methodologies and to promote interdisciplinary research ranging from the theoretical to the practical and from the applied to the pedagogical (page 69). Please visit our website www.peterlang.com for a complete overview of our diverse publishing portfolio. Should you have any comments or queries, feel free to contact us at: marketing@peterlang.com. Best regards,
Dr. Bianca Matzek
Simon Reber
Publishing Director Bern
Global Marketing Manager
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