Iran's Language Planning Confronting English Abbreviations: Persian Terminology Planning

ISBN-13: 9783030353827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 116 str.

Fatemeh Akbari

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction: Language and Terminology Planning.- Chapter 2. Language and Terminology Planning in Iran.- Chapter 3. English Abbreviated Forms: Challenges, Approaches and the Gaps.- Chapter 4. Assessment of Iran’s Language Planning: Methodology.- Chapter 5. Assessment of Iran’s Language Planning: Results.- Chapter 6. Assessment of Iran’s Language Planning: Discussions.- Chapter 7. Conclusions.

O autorze

Fatemeh Akbari received her doctorate in Translation Studies/Transcultural Communication from the University of Vienna (awarded a Distinction), specializing in Terminology and Language Planning. She has extensive experience in this realm both within Iran where she has worked as a terminologist at the Academy of Persian Language and Literature and outside the country where she has cooperated with a number of international institutes. She has also taught Persian language and culture at Tehran University (Dehkhoda Institute) and the Australian National University. Her research interests are language policy and planning, sociolinguistics, terminology, onomastics, and language education.