Explorations of Language Transfer

Terence Odlin is an emeritus faculty member of Ohio State University, USA. He continues to pursue his long-standing interest in language transfer, including relevant aspects of translation theory. His numerous publications on the subject include a collection titled New Perspectives on Transfer in Second Language Learning (co-edited with Liming Yu, 2016, Multilingual Matters).

Professor Odlin is a world-renowned scholar of language contacts and second-language acquisition. In this book he puts his rare expertise in these two fields – too often perceived as separate from each other – to good use by presenting a unifying approach, based on an unusually wide repertoire of languages and contact situations. The book is also indispensable reading for students and scholars interested in contrastive analysis, sociolinguistics, and translation studies.

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. IntroductionPart 1: Predictions and ConstraintsChapter 2. Was There Really Ever a Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis?Chapter 3. Could a Contrastive Analysis Ever be Complete?Chapter 4. Word-order Transfer, Metalinguistic Awareness and Constraints on Foreign Language LearningPart 2: Language-specific Processing and TransferChapter 5. Language Transfer and the Link between Comprehension and ProductionChapter 6. Focus Constructions and Language TransferChapter 7. Translation and Language TransferChapter 8. ConclusionReferencesIndex