Vered Shwartz

Lost in Automatic Translation

Navigating Life in English in the Age of Language Technologies

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Produktbeschreibung

"Will Google Translate and ChatGPT help us master foreign languages and better understand one another, or make language learning obsolete? This book addresses these questions and more. It is ideal for English language lovers and those on an English language-learning journey, and also technophiles and people wanting to learn about AI"-- Provided by publisher.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009552363
• ISBN-10: 1009552368
• Artikelnr.: 73529358

Autorenporträt

Vered Shwartz is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia and a CIFAR AI chair at the Vector Institute. She specializes in natural language processing and has published extensively in top-tier journals and conferences.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Communicating in English: 1. Can we have a word?
2. Call the grammar police
Part II. Understanding Cultural Norms and References: 3. Reading between the lines
4. A figure of speech
5. To put it delicately
6. Grounded in reality
7. Internet speak is the best, don't @ me
Part III. Cultural Integration through Language
8. Can you repeat this, please?
9. The unspeakable
10. The secret code of body language
11. Language and identity
Conclusion.