Tag: multilingualism
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Interview with British-Canadian wordsmith (and professor of translation studies) Brian Harris
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Our guest interviewee, Brian HARRIS, recently celebrated his 90th birthday. His long, interesting and prodigious career in the theory and practice of translating and interpreting, as well as his strong interest in history, is reflected in this interview. Special mention should be made of the fact that he coined the term ‘translatology’ for the scientific study of translation.
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Interview with Dutch wordsmith (and tour guide) Geert Sivellis
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I grew up in a very international community within Portugal. There were at least 5 English-language international schools in the area. The common language was English. My parents briefly attempted to teach their offspring Dutch, but it proved too confusing for the young brains that were at the same time learning English and Portuguese.
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Interview with British wordsmith (and educator) Wendy Ayres-Bennett
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Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Professor of French Philology and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, works on the history of the French language and the history of linguistic thought, particularly in seventeenth-century France. Her major research interests include questions of standardisation and codification, linguistic ideology and policy, variation and change, from the sixteenth century to the present…