The development of professional competencies in language mediation is commonly associated with linguistic accuracy, memory management, and rapid bilingual processing. Yet interpreting and related language service activities also depend on broader communicative abilities, including attentive listening, vocal clarity, interaction management, and sensitivity to contextual meaning. In recent years,... More >>

Punctuation is commonly treated as an auxiliary feature of writing, yet it encodes crucial information about syntactic organization, discourse rhythm, and narrative structure. In modern Chinese, punctuation forms a hybrid system shaped by traditional practices and imported Western conventions, making it especially relevant for quantitative analysis and language service applications. This review... More >>

The construction of Shanghai’s International Shipping Center has entered into a more advanced phase of development, in which the soft infrastructure such as language service capabilities manifested its indispensable role. Yet the potential of maritime language services in the pursuit of the Center’s capacity to sustain global competitiveness has been underestimated. The current provision of mar... More >>

This position paper argues that sustainable progress in the language service industry depends on harmonising artificial intelligence with human expertise rather than replacing human practitioners. It begins by tracing the evolution of language services from traditional human translation to artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted workflows, emphasising that while technology enhances speed and acce... More >>

The development of the internet has made online socializing and partner seeking possible, thereby enabling single individuals to communicate and match with one another across temporal and geographical boundaries within virtual spaces. The rise of online dating has drawn scholarly attention from fields such as sociology, psychology, and linguistics, giving rise to a growing body of research on t... More >>

This article provides a critical examination of the evolution, application, and methodological implications of thematic analysis (TA) within language services research. Drawing on the principles of reflexive thematic analysis (RTA) as both an organizing and interpretive framework, the study reviews and synthesizes existing literature across six key domains: national language planning, urban gov... More >>

Managing translation and interpreting services for large-scale international events presents significant challenges, particularly in implementing an integrated management model that synergizes both modalities. Research in this area, especially practice-oriented case studies, remains limited. This paper addresses this gap by conducting an in-depth case study of the translation management for the... More >>