...Interpreting language is the focus of this article. Interpretation studies are a comparatively new field of language study. Journals such as Interpreting highlight research studies that look at interpreting from a wide range of perspectives. Currently there is a growing trend...

...This chapter explores foreign language study in late-sixteenth-century London together with Edward Haughton’s Englishmen for My Money, the earliest surviving comedy of contemporary London. As recent criticism attests, foreign languages operate in this play as a means of reinforcing...

... language varieties in the sixteenth century. Even then, it was sometimes difficult to decide whether two language varieties were separate languages or varieties of one language. When the lexicography of regionalisms developed, it was often oriented towards historical language study or etymology, since...

... Caminer Turra Elisabetta Barbapiccola Giuseppa Eleonora letter text type Ardinghelli Maria Angela Hales Stephen Vigilante Marianna national language women French Italy eighteenth century education language study linguistic thought misogyny translation Towards the end of the eighteenth...

... the most popular choices for second language study by hearing students. The status of sign languages as complex and complete languages that are clearly the linguistic “equal” of spoken languages is no longer questioned. Research on the characteristics of visual languages has blossomed since the 1960s...

... codification and language studies in the Netherlands, at least two extraordinary femmes savantes stand out. The first of these from the seventeenth century was Anna Maria van Schurman, a highly admired scholar and polyglot who maintained an international network of correspondence...

... Lafayette Phillip Stapfer Charles Hodge Paris Göttingen Edward Robinson language study Hodge faced numerous obstacles as he contemplated study abroad. The first involved finances. Although Robert Patton worked hard to convince him that one could actually live cheaper in Europe than in Princeton...