Gyde Hansen

Gyde Hansen (* 1947 in Wyk auf Föhr ) is a Danish linguist and translation specialist . She teaches as a professor at the Copenhagen Business School in the Department of International Business Communication.

Life

Gyde Hansen was born in Wyk auf Föhr in 1947. She studied French and English at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel until 1969 and taught German at the University of Copenhagen from 1972 . In 1973 she received Danish citizenship. After graduating as a Master of Arts from the University of Copenhagen in German and English, she followed the call of the Copenhagen Business School in 1978 . Her teaching there focused on the areas of linguistics, comparative grammar, intercultural communication, text analysis, semiotics and marketing, translation, translation theory and criticism, and empirical research methods. In 1983 she was awarded the Tietgen Prize for Research. Gyde Hansen obtained the academic degree Licentiatgrad linguæ mercantilis (lic.ling.merc., Today PhD) in comparative linguistics in 1985 and completed his habilitation in 2005 with the text Störquellen in Translation Processes . She has been a professor at Copenhagen Business School since 2006. Her main research interests include translation criticism, text revision, translator training, research methods, comparative linguistics and text analysis. In 2006 she was awarded the Hedorfs Fonds Pris for Erhverssproglig Forskning research award.

Memberships

Accreditation Commission for the MA Conference Interpreting at Heidelberg University
Accreditation Commission for Translational Research at the University of Innsbruck
Advisory board for Narr-Verlag, Translation Studies, Tübingen (since 2004)
Advisory Board for the International Journal for Language, Translation and Intercultural Communication; Igoumenitsa (Greece; since 2011)
Advisory Board for the journal Professional Communication and Translation Studies; Timișoara Polytechnic University (Romania; since 2009)
Advisory board for the magazine redit (Revista Deigital de la Didáctica de la Traducción e Interpretación), Spain (since 2007)
Advisory board for the journal Studia Translatorica, University of Wroclaw (Poland; since 2011)
International Academy for Translation and Interpreting (IATI)

Offices

Contact person at the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission for the European Master's degree in Translation

Consultant for the European Society for Translation Studies (EST)

Consultant for the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters, Australia (NAATI)

Secretary General of the German Society for Translation and Interpreting Research (DGÜD; since 2011)

Reviewer in the Research Council of Norway

Reviewer at the Swiss National Science Foundation for the Promotion of Scientific Research (SNSF)

President of the DGÜD (2009-2011)

Vice President of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST; 2004–2010)

Publications (selection)

Contrastive analysis of article usage in Danish and German . København, Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold Busck 1986
Text-linguistic analysis of usage texts . København, Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold Busck 1989
Introduction to translation . København, Munksgaard 1995
Contrasting text grammar - based on Danish and German technical texts . Copenhagen Business School, Samfundslitteratur 1995
Sources of interference in translation processes . Habilitation thesis. Copenhagen Business School, Samfundslitteratur 2005
Translate successfully. Discovering and eliminating sources of interference . Tübingen, Narr, Francke, Attempto 2006

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personal data
SURNAME	Hansen, Gyde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish translation scholar and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH	1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wyk on Föhr