Of Mind and Machine

<p><i>Of Mind and Machine</i> provides a broad perspective on multi-level dialogic engagements between text and reader as seen from the use of language in presenting information to generate a discursive experience in various sociocultural settings.</p><p>The book observes contexts such as national literature in translation diplomatic speech events visual-verbal inter-semiotic translation second language learning interpreter training and computer-aided teaching of translation and bilingual writing. These present a unifying interest in textual accountability between form function and effect that has been examined from a dual perspective of rhetoric and pragmatics. The research embodies a significant prospect of integration of academic originality with technological innovation to advance language education in the present digital era. Theoretically well-founded the book does not confine itself to a self-contained system of conceptions and methods. Instead it demonstrates a rich variety of research possibilities in support of theorisation and education in the field of language and translation studies.</p><p>This edited volume is primarily intended for advanced undergraduates postgraduates researchers and teachers within the fields of language and translation applied linguistics and discourse analysis.</p>