Erich Steiner (translation scholar)

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Erich Steiner (born February 16, 1954 in Heidelberg ) is a German linguist and translation scholar . He is currently professor for English translation studies at the Philological Faculty II Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies at Saarland University.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1973, Steiner began studying orchestral music at the State University of Music of the Saarland in Saarbrücken . A year later he moved to Saarland University in Saarbrücken, where he passed the first state examination in German and English in 1980 for teaching at grammar schools. Three years later he did his doctorate there in English Philology (Linguistics) with the topic "The Development of British Contextualism". Then in 1984 Steiner passed the second state examination for teaching at grammar schools in German and English. He completed his habilitation in 1989 at the Philosophical Faculty of Saarland University with the topic "Towards a model of goal-directed action as a structuring principle for the Context of Situation in Systemic Linguistics", for which he received the Venia legendi for Modern English Linguistics in the same year was granted.

After completing his habilitation , he worked for a year as a department and project manager in the field of multilingual generation and analysis of natural language at the Institute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems (IPSI) of the Society for Mathematics and Data Processing (GMD) in Darmstadt . In the same year he was appointed professor for English language and translation studies and in 1991 professor for English translation studies at Saarland University. From 1993 to 1994 Steiner was elected Vice Dean of Faculty 8 "Modern Linguistics and Literature" and from 2002 to 2004 and from 2009 to 2012 Dean of the Philosophical Faculty II for Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies. Today he works as a professor for English translation studies.

Erich Steiner held visiting professorships and lectureships for more than a year at the following universities :

Erich Steiner has been married since 2000.

Publications (selection)

Steiner is the editor of several compilations and has written a large number of articles for international specialist journals, compilations and commemorative publications.

  • Erich Steiner: The Development of British Contextualism . Heidelberg: Groos 1983.
  • Erich Steiner: A functional perspective on language, action, and interpretation . Berlin etc .: Mouton De Gruyter 1991.
  • Erich Steiner: Translated Texts: Properties, Variants, Evaluations . Frankfurt / M., Lang, 2004.
  • Kapanhze, Oleg and Erich Steiner: Linguistics from language typology to language technology. Master’s degree for students of German studies . (in Georgian). Tbilisi 2012. ISBN 978-9941-424-46-5
  • Hansen-Schirra, Silvia, Neumann, Stella and Steiner, Erich (2012): Cross-linguistic Corpora for the Study of Translations. Insights from the language pair English - German. Series Text, Translation, Computational Processing . Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter
Editing
  • Steiner, Erich, Paul Schmidt, Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt (Eds.) From syntax to semantics - insights from machine translation . London: Pinter 1988.
  • Steiner, Erich and Robert Veltman (Eds.): Pragmatics, discourse and text: explorations in Systemic Semantics. London: Pinter 1988.
  • Annemarie Simon-Vandenbergen u. Erich Steiner Erich (Ed.): Functional Approaches to Discourse. Vol. 27, No.6. Special Issue of Language Sciences . 2005.
  • Cho, See-Young and Steiner, Erich. (Ed.): Information Distribution in English Grammar and Discourse and other Topics in Linguistics. Festschrift for Peter Erdmann on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday . Frankfurt / M., Lang 2006.

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personal data
SURNAME Steiner, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and translation scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg