Lost in Automatic Translation - Navigating Life in English in the Age of Language Technologies

"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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Vered Shwartz, Vered (University of British Columbia Shwartz
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781009552363
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0955236-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Translation & interpretation, Psycholinguistics, Natural language & machine translation, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Translation and interpretation, Natural language and machine translation