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These studies are conducted with the caveat that monolingual and bilingual children being assessed have, as a baseline, equal competency in the languages that they speak. This would suggest that the differences in performance are to do with a difference in metalinguistic ability rather than differences in linguistic proficiency.
Translation studies is an academic interdiscipline dealing with the systematic study of the theory, description and application of translation, interpreting, and localization. As an interdiscipline, translation studies borrows much from the various fields of study that support translation.
Translation studies Justa Holz-Mänttäri (born 1936) is a German-born [ 1 ] Finnish translation scholar. She developed the Theory of Translatorial Action and the concept of "message carrier".
Crosslinguistic influence (CLI) refers to the different ways in which one language can affect another within an individual speaker. It typically involves two languages that can affect one another in a bilingual speaker. [1] An example of CLI is the influence of Korean on a Korean native speaker who is learning Japanese or French.
Metalinguistics is the branch of linguistics that studies language and its relationship to other cultural behaviors.It is the study of how different parts of speech and communication interact with each other and reflect the way people live and communicate together.
Second-language acquisition is defined as the learning and adopting of a language that is not the learner's native language. Studies [vague] have shown that extroverts acquire a second language better than introverts. [citation needed] One particular study done by Naiman [vague] reflected this point. The subjects were 72 Canadian high school ...
The polysystem theory, a theory in translation studies, implies using polyvalent factors as an instrument for explaining the complexity of culture within a single community and between communities. Analyzing sets of relations in literature and language, it gradually shifted towards a more complex analysis of socio-cultural systems .
While traditional linguistic studies had developed comparative methods (comparative linguistics), chiefly to demonstrate family relations between cognate languages, or to illustrate the historical developments of one or more languages, modern contrastive linguistics intends to show in what ways the two respective languages differ, in order to help in the solution of practical problems.