Books in the Translation Happens series

We don't say what we mean. We don't mean what we say. No-one can tell the truth - especially when we stick to the facts. Language isn't about words, or information, or things. It's always about us. As with music and painting, we use language to express what we are not able to say. And we can all do it. This title deals with this topic.

The whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Could we ever tell it all? And if we did, who would understand it? The facts of science are always partial truths - yours, mine or somebody else's. All struggling to be heard, and believed. Accepting the facts means seeing them. And people only see what they want to see.

Based on a transcultural understanding of politeness and translation, this book proposes a transdisciplinary methodology for detecting patterns of perceiving and realizing politeness by users of English with different lingua-cultural biographies. It contains aspects of automated data processing and is designed for long-term research.