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Book SynopsisIn Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond, the Viking World in the East is made more heterogeneous. Baltic Finnic groups, Balts and Sami are integrated into the history dominated by Scandinavians and Slavs. Interaction in the region between Eastern Middle Sweden, Finland, Estonia and North Western Russia is set against varied cultural expressions of identities. Ten scholars approach the topic from different angles, with case studies on the roots of diversity, burials with horses, Staraya Ladoga as a nodal point of long-distance routes, Rus’ warrior identities, early Eastern Christianity, interaction between the Baltic Finns and the Svear, the first phases of ar-Rus dominion, the distribution of Carolingian swords, and Dirhams in the Baltic region. Contributors are Johan Callmer, Ingrid Gustin, Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Valter Lang, John Howard Lind, Marika Mägi, Mats Roslund, Søren Sindbaek, Anne Stalsberg, and Tuukka Talvio.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations VII List of Contributors xi 1 Identity Formation and Diversity: Introduction 1 Johan Callmer, Ingrid Gustin and Mats Roslund 2 Societies East and West of the Baltic Sea: Prehistoric Culture Contacts Revisited 17 Marika Mägi 3 Riding to the Afterworld: Burying with Horses and Riding Equipment in Estonia and the Baltic Rim 48 Valter Lang 4 A Site of Intersection: Staraya Ladoga, Eastern Silver, and Long-Distance Communication Networks in Early Medieval Europe 76 Søren M. Sindbæk 5 Creating a Cultural Expression: On Rus’ Identity and Material Culture 91 Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson 6 “Varangian Christianity” and the Veneration of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian Saints in Early Rus’ 107 John H. Lind 7 The Rise of the Dominion of the ar-Rus in the Northern Parts of Eastern Europe, Seventh to Ninth Centuries a.d.: A Case of Culture Construction 136 Johan Callmer 8 Bringing “the Periphery” into Focus: Social Interaction between Baltic Finns and the Svear in the Viking Age and Crusade Period (c.800 to 1200) 168 Mats Roslund 9 Contacts, Identity, and Hybridity: Objects from South-western Finland in the Birka Graves 205 Ingrid Gustin 10 Swords from the Carolingian Empire to the Baltic Sea and Beyond 259 Anne Stalsberg 11 Dirham Hoards from the Gulf of Finland Region 281 Tuukka Talvio Index 293

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Book SynopsisTranslation and interpreting (T/I) and cross-cultural communication activities in the Asia Pacific are unique in that they involve vastly different languages and cultures. Such differences pose challenges for T/I practitioners and researchers as well as scholars of cross-cultural studies. In Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication Studies in the Asia Pacific, Leong Ko and Ping Chen provide a comprehensive and in-depth account of various issues encountered in translation and interpreting activities and cross-cultural communication in the Asia Pacific. The book covers six areas including translation research from the historical perspective and different issues in translation studies; research on literary translation; studies on translation for special purposes; research on interpreting; translation and interpreting training; and research on issues in cross-cultural communication.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Section One — Translation Research Overview Translation Today and Translation Research: A World Story José Lambert The Shifting Distance of Translation Yifeng Sun Chinese-English Translation: Opportunities and Challenges in the Era of Globalisation Youyi Huang Section Two — Literary Translation Strategies of Cultural Translation: A Contrastive Analysis of the Two English Versions of Hong Lou Meng Biao Zuo Translation for Performance: Oscar Wilde in China Linyuan Wang Research on Reproduction of the Musicality in the Translation of Shengshengman Lixin Wang & Zhaodi Zhang Technological Interventions in Literary Meaning: A Case of Machine Translation Tong King Lee Translating Motion Events from English into Chinese: An Examination of Literary Works Vincent X. Wang Fishing for the Moon in the Water: Practical Challenges for a Translator in the Contact Zone Yauling Hsieh Section Three — Translation for Special Purposes How Is a Pseudo-Translation Manipulated? A Critical Look at the Production of Carl Weter’s Educational Law Daozhen Zhang A Study of Chinese Translation of Academic Works in English: A Panorama in China Keyong He & Yuanyuan Chen Translation of Chinese Neologisms in the Cyber Age Richard Yu A Study on the Translation Strategies in Korean-English Children’s Literature: From the Domesticated and Foreignised Perspective Kwon Inkyoung A Study of Translating Extra-Textual Expressions from a Non-English Language into English: A Case of Contemporary Japanese Computer-Mediated Communication Noboru Sakai The Impact of Glocalisation on Website Translation Ying-Ting Chuang & Yi-Ting Lee Section Four — Interpreting Norms of Target-Language Communication in Interpreting: A Descriptive Study Based on the Corpus of CEIPPC Binhua Wang Decision-Making at Different Stages of Development in Simultaneous Interpretation: Diction, Technique and Strategy Cheng-shu Yang & Alan Chiu Coherence Establishment in Dialogue Interpreting Lihua Jiang Section Five — Translation and Interpreting Training and Industry Use of Consultation Material in NAATI Translation Accreditation Examinations: A Think-Aloud Protocol Analysis Carl Gene Fordham Training Ethical Translators and Interpreters Leong Ko Moving from the Language Lab to the Interpreting Booth: Student Perceptions Lily Lim The Translation Industry in Taiwan in the Context of Globalisation: Facing the Development of Professional Translation and Master of Translation and Interpreting Oscar Chun-hung Lin Bourdieu’s Capital and Latour’s Actor-Network Theory as Conceptual Tools in Translation Research Szu-Wen Kung Section Six — Cross-Cultural Communication Glocalising Voice and Style of Cosmopolitan in China Doreen D. Wu & Agatha Man-kwan Chung A Window to Chinese Art: Translating Concepts and Culture in Auspicious Chinese Painting Maria Cheng & Eric Choy A Sociopragmatic Analysis of Email Requests in Mandarin Chinese and Australian English Wei Li Language Medium and Self-Perceived Identity: A Case Study on Canadian Chinese-English Bilinguals Wenying Jiang Conceptualisation of Up and Down in Chinese and English: A Pilot Study Haiyan Liang

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Book SynopsisCommunication decisively impacts upon all our lives. This inherent need to connect may either be soothing or painful, a source of intimate understanding or violent discord. Consequently, how it is brokered is challenging and often crucial in situations where those involved have quite different ways of being in and seeing the world. Good communication is equated with skills that intentionally facilitate change, the realisation of desirable outcomes and the improvement of human situations. Withdrawal of communication, or its intentional manipulation, provokes misunderstanding, mistrust, and precipitates the decline into disorder. This international collection of work specifically interrogates conflict as an essential outworking of communication, and suggests that understanding of communication’s potency in contexts of conflict can directly influence reciprocally positive outcomes.

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Book SynopsisIn the extension of digital media from optional means to central site of activity, the domains of language, art, learning, play, film, and politics have been subject to radical reconfigurations as mediating structures. This book examines how this changed relationship has in each case shaped a new form of discourse between self and culture and illustrates explicitly the character of mediated agency beyond the formal separateness from lived experience that was once conveniently termed the virtual and which has come to influence common assumptions about creative expression itself.Trade Review"They essays collected in Cyberculture and New Media, speak to a cyberculture constantly supplanted by technological innovation and a restless adaptation, substitution, and convergence of art, craft, and language. The collection seeks to facilitate interdisciplinary projects and inquiry that are innovative, imaginative, and creatively interactive." - John F. Barber, Washington State University VancouverTable of ContentsPreface: ‘Until Something Else’ – A Theoretical Introduction PART 1 The Empirical Francisco J. RICARDO: Formalisms of Digital Text Sheizaf RAFAELI, Tsahi HAYAT, Yaron ARIEL: Knowledge Building and Motivations in Wikipedia: Participation as “Ba” Mahmoud EID: On the Way to the Cyber-Arab-Culture: International Communication, Telecommunications Policies, and Democracy Rita ZALTSMAN: The Challenge of Intercultural Electronic Learning: English as Lingua Franca PART 2 The Aesthetic Nicole RIDGWAY and Nathaniel STERN: The Implicit Body Leman GIRESUNLU: Cyborg Goddesses: the Mainframe Revisited Maria BÄCKE: De-Colonizing Cyberspace: Post-Colonial Strategies in Cyberfiction Tony RICHARDS: The Différance Engine: Videogames as Deconstructive Spacetime Alev ADIL and Steve KENNEDY: Technology on Screen: Projections, Paranoia and Discursive practice Seppo KUIVAKARI: Desistant Media List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisOnline support groups are considered highly valuable in addition to traditional health care services, but we know very little about how people actually join such a group. This book offers a microanalysis of an online support group on eating disorders, specifically the communication through textual messages between newcomers and regular members and members’ nicknames. The study uses an ethnomethodological and conversation analytical approach to show that members of online support groups treat the group as a community in which their illness-identity is highly relevant. It appears that members invoke community norms regarding legitimacy for newcomers: Newcomers are expected to admit that they are ill, but this is a very difficult step for those who have not yet fully adopted the “sick role” (Parsons, 1951). In the field of eating disorders, it is particularly difficult for people that tend to pro-ana, i.e. the glamorization of eating disorders. The insecurity and anxiety that newcomers display as they enter the online group could probably be relieved when a special entry subforum would be installed in which they can take time and space to actually recognize that they are ill.Trade Review”This study opens a compelling discussion on the negotiation of health, illness and disease within the online community and should ignite further debate surrounding the power of the peer to define and ascribe illness status.” in: Sociology of Health and IllnessTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part I: An ethnomethodological approach to community, identity and eating disorders Chapter 1: The online support group as a community Chapter 2: Identity in a community Chapter 3: Accomplishing identity in an online community on eating disorders Part II: Discourse analysis Chapter 4: Research design: The forum, ethics, data and method Chapter 5: Identity accomplished through nicknames Chapter 6: Opening the first posting: Ambivalence towards the community Chapter 7: Displaying forumability in the online community Chapter 8: The main requirement of forumability: Recognition Part III: Interpretation and conclusion Chapter 9: Entering the online support group and adopting the sick role Chapter 10: Conclusions and discussion Part IV: References and appendix References Appendix

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