Forgiven, not Forgotten: Communicative Translation Activities in Second Language Teaching

Although frequently discarded and despised in the 20th century, translation now seems to find wider acceptance within the Second Language Teaching (SLT) field. However, it still has a long way to go before recovering its due place in the L2 classroom. The aim of this paper is to suggest a number of translation (and interpreting)-based activities covering the different competence levels, thus showing that communicative content and translation can perfectly go hand in hand so that old, unjustified prejudices can be superseded once and for all.

Taboo Language and Illness Online: The Use of Specific Emoticons and Graphic Signs to Talk about HIV/AIDS in South Africa

South Africa is one of the countries most affected by HIV/AIDS: According to 2014 UNAIDS data 6.8 million South Africans live with HIV/AIDS, which means a 18.9% prevalence rate among adults (15-49 years old). Despite this strong presence of HIV/AIDS in South African society it remains relatively stigmatized and is not openly talked about. The silence about HIV/AIDS maintained in everyday conversations and the superstitions associated with this illness have led to the creation of a taboo language. This study aims at shedding light on how South African users resort to specific emoticons and graphic signs to talk about HIV/AIDS online. For this purpose 368 Facebook status updates and comments concerning HIV/AIDS and its side effects were analysed. All participants, aged 14-48, lived at the moment of data collection in Cape Town, in the Cape Flats area. The online conversations investigated are mainly in English mixed with Afrikaans and/or Xhosa. The emoticons and graphic signs in most cases display a graphic depiction of the physical (and mental) effects of the illness. These linguistic and semiotic practices employed on Facebook provide insight into how Capetonian users, on the one hand, express solidarity and sympathy with people suffering from HIV/AIDS. On the other hand, the emoticons and graphic signs are used to label and position people affected by HIV/AIDS. Thus, in the South African context social network sites have become an important space and means for communicating HIV/AIDS issues.

Introduction to Old Church Slavic--Texts.

Mode of access: Internet.

Anglo-Saxon and Old English vocabularies

v. 1. Vocabularies.--v. 2. Indices.

The art of writing & speaking the English language

"Revised edition."

First lessons in grammar, abridged from the Grammar of the English language.

At head of title: Old nomenclature with the new.

A complete Hebrew-English pocket-dictionary to the Old Testament /

At head of title: Toussaint-Langenscheidt method.

A Greek and English lexicon to the New Testament : in which the words and phrases occurring in those sacred books are distinctly explained ; and the meanings assigned to each authorized by references to passages of Scripture, and frequently illustrated and confirmed by citations from the Old Testament and from the Greek writers ; to this work is prefixed, A Plain and easy Greek grammar /

Mode of access: Internet.

Otsar leshon ʻIvri ṿe-Kaśdi = Hebrew and English dictionary, Biblical and rabbinical : containing the Hebrew and Chaldee roots of the Old Testament post-Biblical writings /

Mode of access: Internet.

A Hebrew and English lexicon without points: in which the Hebrew and Chaldee words of the Old Testament are explained in their leading and derived senses, ... . To this work are prefixed, a Hebrew and a Chaldee grammar, without points.

"A brief sketch of the life of the late Rev. John Parkhurst ...": p. [iii]-vi.

A Hebrew and English lexicon of the Old Testament : including the Biblical Chaldee /

Mode of access: Internet.

A Hebrew and English lexicon of the Old Testament, including the Biblical Chaldee /

Includes errata sheet (p. 715).

A complete Hebrew-English pocket-dictionary to the Old Testament,

At head of title: Toussaint-Langenscheidt method.