This volume includes thirteen papers presented at the 16th Conference on British and American Studies held at Transilvania University of Brașov, Romania. It consists of three main parts, the first of which includes contributions falling within the scope of communication and meaning-making. The articles gathered here consider issues such as social identity and the construction of gender both in and through language, and the rendition of cultural content across languages. The second section takes a closer look at language in context: the contributions included here approach language as a means t.

• Table of Contents
• Chapter I
• Introduction
• Same-Sex Intercultural Relationships
• Methods in Gender Studies
• A Contrastive Analysis of Romanian and English Proverbs with Zoonyms
• The History of the USA in World War II reflected in Subtitles of Band of Brothers
• Chapter II
• Introduction
• Representations of Refugees in Evenimentul zilei
• Sustainable Approaches towards the Study of Academic Texts
• Methods of Characterization in Benjy’s Part of William Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury
• Equivalent Differentiation in Bilingual Online Dictionaries
• Chapter III
• Introduction
• On the Partitive Uses of ‘de’, ‘din’ and ‘dintre’ in Modern Spoken Romanian
• On Manner Conflation
• "Perfect" Translations
• Negative Concord Problems in Conference Interpreting
• Spanish “th” Sound
• List of Contributors
• Index