It has recently been suggested that bilingualism, rather than age of acquisition, is what underlies less than nativelike attainment in childhood L2 acquisition. Currently, however, the empirical evidence in favor of or against this interpretation remains scarce. The present study sets out to fill this gap, implementing a nove...

This article reports on a longitudinal focus group study of two groups of translation students aimed at investigating their socialisation into the translation profession. The students followed the same MA programme in Translation Studies at a Swedish university but worked with different source languages (SL): Japanese and Eng...

This ethnomethodological (EM) and conversation analytic (CA) study explores the responsive behaviors of two Swedish volunteers during storytelling by two migrants in alanguage cafe in Sweden. The two stories revolve around employment and language proficiency, two topics that are often raised in the cafe as they invoke issues ...

The article sheds light on the impact of awards on the translation of children's literature into semi-peripheral and peripheral languages and its transnational circulation. In relation to literature for adults, it has been argued that awards instigate both translation and circulation. This article examines whether a similar c...