{"title":"Katrin Kohl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKatrin Kohl\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful works centred on language, culture, and translation studies. Her books explore the complexities of communication, with a particular focus on modern languages and their global interconnections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in linguistic theory, cultural exchange, and educational perspectives will find Katrin Kohl’s writing both illuminating and thought-provoking. Her contributions enrich the understanding of how languages shape and reflect society.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"modern-languages-by-katrin-kohl-9781509540549","title":"Modern Languages","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt might seem as if globalisation is making the whole world speak English. But spend time in any major city and you are likely to encounter a cornucopia of languages. Even monolingual people have different ways of speaking to their bosses or teachers, their intimate friends or their pets. And if you live in India or Nigeria, you might use five different languages during a typical day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKatrin Kohl makes a passionate case for why we must embrace languages in all their diversity. When you study a language, you open a unique doorway into the world, immerse yourself in a different way of seeing, and discover new ways of communicating with people from different cultures on their terms. Kohl argues that language diversity is of vital importance to human societies, sustaining the complexity of human nature, culture, and technology. We should care about preserving it as much as we care about preserving the diversity of our biological world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eModern Languages\u003c\/em\u003e explores these themes with depth and insight, offering readers a compelling perspective on the role and significance of language in our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362923102444,"sku":"9781509540549","price":23.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12427743482725.jpg?v=1772902725"},{"product_id":"babel-by-matthew-reynolds-9781851245093","title":"Babel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis innovative collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys through the translation of texts. It tells the story of how ideas have travelled via the medium of translation into different languages and cultures, focusing on illustrated examples ranging from Greek papyri through illuminated manuscripts and fine early books to fantasy languages, such as J.R.R. Tolkien's Elvish. It also addresses the search for a universal language and the challenges of translation in multicultural Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStarting with the concept of Babel itself, which illustrates the early cultural prominence of multilingualism, and with an illustration of a Mediterranean language of four millennia ago (Linear A) which still resists deciphering, the book examines how languages have interacted with each other in different contexts. The book explores the multilingual transmission of key texts in religion, science (the history of Euclid), animal fable (from Aesop in Greek to Beatrix Potter via La Fontaine, with some fascinating Southeast Asian books), fairy-tale, fantasy, and translations of the great Greek epics of Homer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is lavishly illustrated with a diverse range of material, from papyrus fragments found at Oxyrhynchus to Esperanto handbooks to Asterix cartoons, each offering its own particular adventure into translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470066532588,"sku":"9781851245093","price":64.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781851245093-babel.jpg?v=1775211236"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/katrin-kohl.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}