Alberto Gil

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Alberto Gil (born July 3, 1952 in Madrid ) is a Spanish linguist and translation scholar . He teaches as a university professor for Ibero-Romance translation studies at the Philosophical Faculty II (specialization in applied linguistics , translation , interpreting ) at Saarland University .

Life

Alberto Gil was born in Madrid in 1952. After studying Classical Philology and Hispanic Studies , he received his doctorate in 1979 from the University of Cologne with a dissertation on choral songs in Seneca's tragedies. In the following years he was lecturer for Spanish at the Romance Department of the University of Cologne and then at the Institute for Romance Philology at RWTH Aachen University . Alberto Gil taught as a professor of Spanish language and literature at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences (1984–1996) and accepted a teaching position at the Romance Department of the University of Bonn (1991–1996 / 97). From 1995 to 1997 he worked on the research projects “Studies on valence and word order in French and Italian” and “Cognitive and communicative dimensions of metaphor in Romance languages”, which were funded by the Ministry of Science and Research. Since 1996 he has held the chair for Romance translation studies at Saarland University. In 2007 Alberto Gil founded the research center “Rhetoric and Ethos” (Rhethos) and in 2012 the research center “Hermeneutics and Creativity”.

Research priorities

Publications (selection)

Scientific treatises

  • How to really convince. Introduction to value-oriented rhetoric . Pp. 1-181. Röhrig University Press, St. Ingbert 2013, ISBN 3-86110-522-5
  • Text adverbials in the Romance languages. An integral study of connectors and modifiers in Spanish, French and Italian . P. 444. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995. In: Bonner Romanistische Arbeit, Volume 53. Reviews: 1. Romanistisches Jahrbuch 46, 1995, 166-169 (I. Neumann-Holzschuh, Regensburg); 2. Revue Romane 33, 1998, 139–141 (G. Skytte, Copenhagen); 3. Journal for French Language and Literature CVIII / 1, 1998, 58–60 (F. Venier, Stuttgart); 4. Romance Philology, vol. 56, Spring 2003, 374-378 (Nelson Cartagena, Heidelberg).
  • Physique and fiction. Communicative processes and their literary image in EL JARAMA . (With Hans Scherer). Pp. 1–201. Edition Reichenberger, Kassel 1984, ISBN 3-923593-14-7
  • The choral songs in Seneca's tragedies. An investigation into Seneca's philosophy and choral themes . (Dissertation printing). P. 216. Cologne 1979.

Editorships

  • Gil, Alberto; Polzin-Haumann, Claudia: Applied Romance Linguistics. Forms of communication and discourse in the 21st century . Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 2015, ISBN 978-3-86110-584-8 .
  • Gil, Alberto; Kirstein, Robert: Knowledge transfer and translation. On the breadth and depth of the translation term . Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 2015, ISBN 978-3-86110-556-5 .
  • Gil, Alberto; Schmeling, Manfred: Translate culture. On the science of translation in the German-French dialogue . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 3-05-004340-7
  • Gil, Alberto; Wienen, Ursula: Multi-perspective issues of translation in Romania . Homage to Wolfram Wilss on his 80th birthday. S. 350. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-631-56186-5
  • Gil, Alberto; Schmitt, Christian: Retórica en las lenguas iberorrománicas. Una ciencia fronteriza entre Lingüística y Literatura . Romanistischer Verlag, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-86143-166-1
  • Gil, Alberto; Schmitt, Christian: Tasks and perspectives of the Romance language history in the third millennium. Files of the eponymous section of the XXVII. German Romance Day, Munich (October 7-10, 2001) . Romanistischer Verlag, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-86143-142-4
  • Gil, Alberto; Schmitt, Christian: Gramática y pragmática del español. Actas de la sección \ "Grammar and Pragmatics in Spanish \" del XIII. German Hispanic Day, Leipzig (March 8-11, 2001) . Romanistischer Verlag, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-86143-131-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alberto Gil on the website of the Saarland University
personal data
SURNAME Gil, Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish linguist and translation scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid