Constanza Gerding Salas

Constanza Adriana Gerding Salas (born February 7, 1954 in Osorno ) is a Chilean linguist and translation scholar. She teaches and researches at the Universidad de Concepción and is head of the terminology research group there .

Life

Gerding-Salas first came into contact with foreign languages when her parents enrolled her as a child at a German school in La Unión, Chile. From 1972 to 1977 she completed a teaching degree for English and taught for ten years at a university in Santiago de Chile , where bilingual secretaries were trained. Meanwhile , she completed her habilitation in English. In 1988 Gerding-Salas moved to Stockholm for four years , where she began working as a translator in the fields of business and law. Back in Chile, she devoted herself intensively to translation studies . She took part in practical courses and dealt with the problems and theories of translatology in self-study .

Teaching and research

In 1995 she was appointed to the Foreign Language Institute of the Universidad de Los Lagos to teach comparative linguistics , translation theory and English as a foreign language. In addition , she did her doctorate a short time later at the Faculty of Education of the Universidad de Concepción (UdeC).

Today she continues to work as a lecturer and occasionally as a guest lecturer in Germany, for example at the Institute for Applied Linguistics and Translatology (IALT) at the University of Leipzig . Her research interests include:

Foreign language didactics
Problems and theories in translation studies
Machine translation
Neologisms and their meaning for didactics and translation work

Memberships

In addition to her membership, Gerding-Salas is the director of the following companies:

Antena Chilena de Neología (subordinate to the Observatorio de Neología (OBNEO) of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona )
Grupo de Estudios terminológicos de la Universidad de Concepción (TermUdeC)

Publications (selection)

Monographs

Terminología de la traducción. Dirección de Docencia Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile, 2008, ISBN 978-956-8029-79-1 .

Articles and posts

Teaching Translation. Problems and Solutions. in: Translation Journal. Vol. 4, No. 3., 2000.
Strategies for Translating “-ing” Adjectives and Nouns from English to Spanish. in: Translation Journal. Vol. 5, No. 1, 2001.
Machine Translation and Computer-Assisted Translation: A New Way of Translating? In collaboration with Olivia Craciunescu and Susan Stringer-O'Keeffe in: Translation Journal. Vol. 8, No. 3, 2004.
Factores de aprendizaje del inglés como L2: una visión cualitativa. in: Visiones de la educación. Vol. 5, No. 8, 2005, pp. 65-81.
Anglicismos y aculturación en la sociedad chilena. - English loanwords: acculturation in Chilean society. In collaboration with Mary Fuentes Morrison and Gabriela Kotz in: Onomázein . 25/2012, pp. 139-162.

Congress presentations

Loanwords in the press: The influence of English in Chile. In collaboration with Mary Fuentes Morrison. International Federation of Translators (FIT) XIX World Congress, San Francisco, California, August 1-4, 2011.

Others

Consultant in the process of translating the volume of poetry Desolación (1922) by Gabriela Mistral into English. Translation by Liliana Baltra and Michael P. Predmore. Latin American Literary Review Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2014, ISBN 978-189-1270-24-6 .

Web links

Foreign Language Institute of the University of Los Lagos

Individual evidence

↑ Internet presence of the English department of the Foreign Language Institute of the UdeC (Spanish). Website of the Universidad de Concepción. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
↑ Constanza Gerding-Salas - Brief introduction of the person . Website of the online magazine Translation Journal . Retrieved September 25, 2014.
↑ Significant cooperation between the Foreign Language Institute and the University of Leipzig - notification of the scientist's visit to the IALT (Spanish). Website of the Universidad de Concepción. Retrieved September 25, 2014.

personal data
SURNAME	Gerding Salas, Constanza
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gerding Salas, Constanza Adriana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean linguist and translation scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	7th February 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Osorno

[1] Internet presence of the English department of the Foreign Language Institute of the UdeC (Spanish). Website of the Universidad de Concepción. Retrieved September 25, 2014.

[2] Constanza Gerding-Salas - Brief introduction of the person . Website of the online magazine Translation Journal . Retrieved September 25, 2014.

[3] Significant cooperation between the Foreign Language Institute and the University of Leipzig - notification of the scientist's visit to the IALT (Spanish). Website of the Universidad de Concepción. Retrieved September 25, 2014.