Dr. Michał Borodo is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics at Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland, where he is also the Head of Postgraduate Studies in Translating and Interpreting. He has published on various topics in translation studies and his main research interests include translation and language in the context of globalization, glocalization and ... Read moremigration, and the translation of children’s literature and comics, as well as translator training. In 2012, he co-edited Global Trends in Translator and Interpreter Training: Mediation and Culture, published by Bloomsbury/Continuum. Prof. Juliane House is a Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics at Hamburg University, and Director of Programs in Arts and Sciences and Director of the PhD Program in Applied Linguistics at Hellenic American University. Her research interests include translation theory, contrastive pragmatics, discourse analysis, intercultural communication and English as a global language. She has written and edited over 250 books and articles, among them A Model for Translation Quality Assessment, Translation Quality Assessment: A Model Revisited, Interlingual and Intercultural Communication, Cross-Cultural Pragmatics, Misunderstanding in Social Life, Multilingual Communication, Translation, Translational Action and Intercultural Communication, Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations, and Globalization, Discourse, Media: In a Critical Perspective. Dr. Wojciech Wachowski is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics at Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland. He has published on various topics in linguistics, especially cognitive linguistics, and his main research interests include metonymy and metaphor, sociolinguistics, and teacher and translator training. Show Less