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Translation-Mediated Communication in a Digital World:

Facing the Challenges of Globalization and Localization (Google eBook)
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Multilingual Matters, 2002 - 168 pages
The Internet is accelerating globalization by exposing organizations and individuals to global audiences. This in turn is driving teletranslation and teleinterpretation, new types of multilingual support, which are functional in digital communications environments. The book describes teletranslation and teleinterpretation by exploring a number of key emerging contexts for language professionals.
  

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Page 151 - In other words what happens when one comprehends a text is that one mentally creates a kind of world; the properties of this world may depend quite a bit on the individual interpreter's own private experiences - a reality which should account for part of the fact that different people construct different interpretations of the same text.
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Page 159 - Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation.
Page 2 - ... an act of communication which attempts to relay, across cultural and linguistic boundaries, another act of communication (which may have been intended for different purposes and different readers/hearers)
Page xix - chat" system developed by Jarkko Oikarinen in Finland in the late 1980s. IRC has become very popular as more...
Page 53 - Think of hypermedia as a collection of elastic messages that can stretch and shrink in accordance with the reader's actions. Ideas can be opened and analyzed at multiple levels of detail. The best paper equivalent I can think of is an Advent calendar. But when you open the little electronic (versus paper) doors, you may see a different story line depending on the situation or, like...
Page xviii - Futures research: research that has the primary objective of assisting decision-makers to better understand the potential consequences of present and future decisions by developing images of alternative futures.
Page 151 - ... any kind of coherent segment of human beliefs, actions, experiences or imaginings
Page 151 - ... positions left blank, so to speak; later parts of the text fill in the blanks (or some of them, anyway), introduce new scenes, combine scenes through links of history or causation or reasoning, and so on. In other words, a person, in interpreting a text, mentally creates a partially specified world; as he continues with the text, the details of this world get filled in; and in the process, expectations get set up which later on are fulfilled or thwarted, and so on.
Page xviii - I- eighteen letters-N'): the process of planning and implementing products and services so that they can easily be adapted to specific local languages and cultures, a process called localization.

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