Iran’s Language Planning Confronting English Abbreviations

Persian Terminology Planning

AvFatemeh Akbari

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

This book addresses one of the most crucial and common questions confronting planners of languages other than English, that is, how the impacts of global languages on local languages should be dealt with: internationalization or local language promotion?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-01-02
Mått:155 x 235 x 8 mm
Vikt:213 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SpringerBriefs in Linguistics
Antal sidor:116
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030353827

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Fatemeh Akbari received her doctorate in Translation Studies/Transcultural Communication from the University of Vienna (awarded a Distinction), specializing in Terminology and Language Planning. She has extensive experience in this realm both within Iran where she has worked as a terminologist at the Academy of Persian Language and Literature and outside the country where she has cooperated with a number of international institutes. She has also taught Persian language and culture at Tehran University (Dehkhoda Institute) and the Australian National University. Her research interests are language policy and planning, sociolinguistics, terminology, onomastics, and language education.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Introduction: Language and Terminology Planning.- Chapter 2. Language and Terminology Planning in Iran.- Chapter 3. English Abbreviated Forms: Challenges, Approaches and the Gaps.- Chapter 4. Assessment of Iran’s Language Planning: Methodology.- Chapter 5. Assessment of Iran’s Language Planning: Results.- Chapter 6. Assessment of Iran’s Language Planning: Discussions.- Chapter 7. Conclusions.