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Book SynopsisThis present book addresses language and its diverse forms in an array of professional and practical contexts. Besides discussing the intricacies of specialized settings such as legal, medical, technical or corporate, the collection also focuses on the role of education in relation to professional contexts ranging from challenges in professional university teaching and translation didactics to business environment requirements.
Table of Contents1. A Rational Activity or Rhetorical Practice? Evaluation Practices in Legal Argumentation.- 2. Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Conceptualization of Specialized Terms in Corporate Culture.- 3. Word Association Measures, Collocation Networks and Medical English: a Corpus-assisted Study of Post-hospital Patient Information Booklets.- 4. Polish and Russian Geological Names in the Context of Linguistic Transfer – Selected Examples.- 5. Implementation of Professional Language Terminology in Polish Production Companies.- 6. Making University-Level foreign Language Education more Responsive to Professional Needs.- 7. Engineering Students' Views on ESP for Internationalization.- 8. Professional Contexts and Task-based American-Polish Student Online Cooperation.- 9. Professional Growth of EFL Teachers.- 10. Participatory Theatre as Development Tools for Higher Education during the Pandemic.-11. Challenges faced by the University Students during Covid-19 Pandemic in Poland.- 12.Linguistic Mediation in Practice - on the Professional Competencies of English Language Teachers and Translators.- 13. Translation Didactics Meets Machine Translation. 14. Directionality in Translation: Using Eye-tracking to look into the Cognitive Effort of StudentTranslators.
