36.2514, Books: Lost in Automatic Translation: Shwartz (2025)

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Subject: 36.2514, Books: Lost in Automatic Translation: Shwartz (2025)

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Date: 26-Aug-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Lost in Automatic Translation: Shwartz (2025)


Title: Lost in Automatic Translation
Subtitle: Navigating Life in English in the Age of Language
Technologies
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/applied-linguistics-and-second-language-acquisition/lost-automatic-translation-navigating-life-english-age-language-technologies?format=PB&isbn=9781009552332

Author(s): Vered Shwartz

Hardback ISBN:  9781009552363 Pages:  206 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Hardback ISBN:  9781009552363 Pages:  206 Price: Europe EURO 87.53
Hardback ISBN:  9781009552363 Pages:  206 Price: U.S. $ 95.00

Abstract:

The last decade has seen an exponential increase in the development
and adoption of language technologies, from personal assistants such
as Siri and Alexa, through automatic translation, to chatbots like
ChatGPT. Yet questions remain about what we stand to lose or gain when
we rely on them in our everyday lives. As a non-native English speaker
living in an English-speaking country, Vered Shwartz has experienced
both amusing and frustrating moments using language technologies: from
relying on inaccurate automatic translation, to failing to activate
personal assistants with her foreign accent. English is the world's
foremost go-to language for communication, and mastering it past the
point of literal translation requires acquiring not only vocabulary
and grammar rules, but also figurative language, cultural references,
and nonverbal communication. Will language technologies aid us in the
quest to master foreign languages and better understand one another,
or will they make language learning obsolete?

Written In: English (eng)



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