Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies strategies of physical and moral survival. Irina Paperno brings to light the autobiographical chronicle (her "notes") of Olga Freidenberg (1890-1955), a pioneering Russian philologist and cultural theorist (and cousin of Boris Pasternak), who endured Stalin's purges, the Leningrad blockade during World War II, and the suffocating repression that followed. Using concepts of scholarship to understand what was happening to her and around her, Freidenberg transformed daily ordeal into what Paperno calls a "diary-theory," not just a record of events but a reflection on how power invades home, body, and mind.

Analyzing Freidenberg's personal writings, kept hidden for decades, Paperno shows how she used myth, metaphor, and ethnographic description to interpret the everyday terror of life under Stalin. Comparing Freidenberg's ideas, developed in isolation, with those of contemporaries like Hannah Arendt, who witnessed Hitler's rise, Paperno identifies in Freidenberg's "notes" a compelling theory of totalitarian oppression. Presenting a singular testament of resilience, despair, and stubborn creative intellect, Paperno's book shows what it means to live and to think in a state of siege.

This volume explores how major religious traditions engage with Pope Francis' encyclical Fratelli Tutti, offering comparative insights into fraternity, solidarity, and ethical responsibility in a global bioethical discourse. Bringing together perspectives from Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism, the book examines how Fratelli Tutti resonates with and challenges diverse theological and moral frameworks. Contributors reflect on religious responsibility, ethical pluralism, and the prospects for interreligious solidarity amid global fragmentation. The volume offers a nuanced account of both convergence and contestation across traditions. Designed for scholars and advanced students in religious studies, theology, bioethics, and comparative ethics, this book will be of particular interest to those engaged in interfaith dialogue and global moral discourse.

This book clarifies methodological concepts in translation studies and explores interdisciplinary approaches from the humanities and social sciences to address the field's theoretical and practical challenges.

This book is organized into two parts. The first part revisits and examines the core methodologies and constituents of translation studies, providing clear, actionable frameworks for approaching translation history. The second part explores the intersection of translation studies with other disciplines, including philosophy, literature, linguistics, sociology, and cultural studies. These interdisciplinary perspectives reveal how translation studies integrate with philosophical concepts, literary theories, and linguistic approaches and how it is shaped by cultural, political, and social forces. Building on previous foundational works, this book represents a decade of refined thinking and invites ongoing dialogue in this evolving field.

It will appeal to scholars and students of translation studies and translation research methodology, as well as to readers seeking to understand translation theory and practice.

Inside China's Professional Translation Market offers a groundbreaking empirical analysis of how translation quality is managed in China's rapidly evolving professional translation industry.

By treating translation as both a textual product and a professional service, this study uncovers the unique challenges posed by China's fragmented standards and lack of institutionalized quality assurance (QA) norms. Through six in-depth case studies of Chinese translation companies, this book identifies two dominant QA models-procedure-based and expert-oriented systems-and reveals how these frameworks operate in real-world practice.

Combining qualitative interviews with quantitative textual analysis, this research bridges the gap between academia and industry, providing actionable insights into translator selection, revision processes and client-specific QA adaptations. A dedicated section examines the growing but uneven impact of AI tools on China's market, contrasting technological efficiency gains with the enduring need for human expertise in complex tasks.

Designed for scholars, practitioners and policymakers, this book advances theoretical debates on translation quality while proposing pragmatic solutions to elevate professional standards. Its evidence-based approach makes it an indispensable resource for understanding China's translation industry-and a catalyst for improving QA practices globally.

This concise volume spotlights an innovative computer-aided approach to linguistic analyses of HPV vaccination discourse on Twitter.

The book features a new corpus linguistic technique, developed by the lead author, to studying patterns of language use in large datasets over time, known as Keyword Co-Occurrence Analysis. The authors explore the potential of social media platforms as rich areas of study for health communication and vaccination discourse, with this particular methodology allowing for detailed analysis of over half a million tweets from nearly 15 years of data. Given the increasingly influential role of social media platforms such as Twitter in shaping vaccine hesitancy, the volume offers readers a more nuanced understanding of their influence on attitudes around important health issues and a valuable resource in facilitating increased vaccine uptake.

This book will be key reading for students, scholars, and policymakers interested in the intersection of language and health, in such areas as corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, health communication, and applied linguistics.

This volume examines how second language learners develop effective writing skills through self-regulated learning by focusing on four key dimensions of writing strategies: cognitive, metacognitive, motivational-regulation, and social behavior.
Drawing on research from diverse global and regional second language contexts, the book presents a comprehensive, multidimensional framework explaining how learners regulate their writing processes and how developing writing proficiency supports strategic learning. It establishes fundamental theoretical foundations, analyzes the impact of each strategy type, explores the reciprocal relationships between strategies, and illuminates how these interconnections evolve over time. The book also bridges the gap between theory and practice, offering educators practical strategies to foster strategic development in student writers.
This volume will be valuable for researchers, students, and practitioners in the fields of second language acquisition and writing pedagogy.

Indonesian Languages and Linguistics provides both an overview and in-depth studies of the multifaceted linguistic landscape of Indonesia as it informs the study of complex multilingual societies. Indonesia is home to about 700 languages, roughly ten percent of the global total, including Indonesian - an emergent major world language spoken as a first or second language by some 280 million people. The instantiation and development of Standard Indonesian as a national language, the increasing number of Indonesians reporting use of Indonesian as a primary language, the language contact scenarios between Indonesian and hundreds of other languages of Indonesia (Austronesian, non-Austronesian and colonial), and the implications of the shift toward Indonesian and other regional linga franca in the endangerment of hundreds of languages are all part of the dynamic linguistic situation in Indonesia. The essays assembled in this volume address these issues focusing on documentation, description, and analysis; language endangerment and language vitality; and language use in multilingual contexts.