Brigitte Horn-Helf

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Brigitte Horn-Helf (* 1948 in Essen ) is a German translation scholar and technical translator for Russian and English.

Live and act

Brigitte Horn-Helf studied at the then Foreign and Interpreting Institute (ADI) of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germersheim and graduated in 1971 as a qualified translator. She then worked as a technical translator in industry and was the managing director of a translation agency. In 1996 she did her doctorate on "Compression in common and technical word formation in contemporary Russian". On the basis of her habilitation thesis on “Conventions of Technical Communication: Macro- and Microcultural Contrasts in Instructions”, which was accepted at the University of Leipzig in 2006 , she received the license to teach intercultural communication and translatology . In the winter semester of the same year, she began teaching at the Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies (FASK), since 2009 Faculty of Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies (FTSK), at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Germersheim, with seminars on the subject of “Cultural Difference in Special Text Conventions” .

Research priorities

Publications

  • Condensation as a terminological principle in Russian. (= Forum for technical language research. Volume 42). Narr, Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-8233-5348-9 (diss.)
  • Technical translation in theory and practice. Francke, Tübingen / Basel 1999, ISBN 3-7720-2264-2
  • Cultural Difference in Specialized Text Type Conventions: Analysis and Translation. A textbook and workbook. (= Leipzig studies on applied linguistics and translatology. Volume 4). Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Brussels / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-57411-9
  • Conventions of technical communication: macro and microcultural contrasts in instructions. (= Forum for technical language research. Volume 91). Frank & Timme, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86596-233-1 (Habil.)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Data set on Brigitte Horn-Helf . Catalog of the German National Library . Retrieved July 29, 2013
  2. ^ A b Karl-Heinz Stoll: Anglophonie am FASK ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Retrieved July 29, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fb06.uni-mainz.de
  3. ↑ Numbers and titles for training at the FASK . Website of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
  4. ↑ New name: FASK Germersheim is now called FTSK . In: Uepo , August 14, 2009. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Horn-Help, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translation scholar and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH eat