Translation is everywhere, giving us dubbed films, and access to foreign news and the literature of other cultures. Considering subtitling, interpreting, and ad

Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the microwave: witho

How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? T

The Magna Carta has long been considered the foundation stone of the British Constitution, yet few people today understand either its contents or its context. T

Poetry is supposed to be untranslatable. But many poems in English are also translations: Pope's Iliad, Pound's Cathay, and Dryden's Aeneis are only the most ob