Jean Darbelnet

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Jean Darbelnet (born November 14, 1904 in Paris , † March 12, 1990 ) was a French linguist, English and Romance scholar who was a university teacher in Canada.

life and work

Darbelnet studied English at the Sorbonne and was a lecturer in Swansea, Edinburgh and Manchester from 1925 to 1930. In 1929 he passed the Agrégation. From 1931 to 1937 he was a high school teacher in Brest, Le Havre and Paris (Lycée Condorcet). From 1937 to 1938 he taught at Bowdoin College , from 1938 to 1939 he was a lecturer at Harvard . After military service, he was professor of French at McGill University in Montreal from 1940 to 1946 . From 1946 to 1962 he taught at Bowdoin College, but kept in close contact with Canada's language policy problems. From 1957 to 1962 he wrote a regular language chronicle for the Montreal daily Notre Temps . From 1962 to 1978 he was Professor of Contrastive Linguistics at Laval University in Quebec. In 1965 he delivered a report entitled Le bilinguisme et les anglicismes. L'anglicisation de la langue française au Québec, ses causes et les remèdes possibles . From 1966 to 1968 he was chairman of the "Association canadienne de linguistique". From 1968 he was a member of the Conseil international de la francophonie (CILF).

Darbelnet published the book Stylistique comparée du français et de l'anglais with Jean-Paul Vinay . Méthode de traduction (Paris 1958, Montréal 1960), which became a classic of contrastive linguistics and translation studies and, after almost 40 years, was still being edited and translated into English ud T. Comparative Stylistics of French and English, a Methodology for Translation , translated and edited by Juan C. Sager and M.-J. Hamel, Amsterdam / Philadelphia 1995 (Benjamin's Translation Library 11). The stylistique comparée was stimulated by the work of Charles Bally and Alfred Malblanc , Pour une stylistique comparée du français et de l'allemand. Essai de représentation linguistique comparée , Paris 1944 (128 pages), a typeface that Malblanc, under the influence of the stylistique of Vinay and Darbelnet, then expanded into the equally successful Stylistique comparée du français et de l'allemand. Essai de représentation linguistique comparée et étude de traduction , Paris 1961, 5th edition 1977, 2000 (351 pages).

Darbelnet was an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa .

Other works

  • Regards sur le français actuel , Montreal 1963
  • Pensée et structure , New York 1969, 1977 (French textbook)
  • Le Français en contact avec l'anglais en Amérique du Nord , Quebec 1976
  • Dictionnaire des particularités de l'usage , Sillery 1986, 1988

literature

  • Le Français en contact avec l'anglais. En hommage à Jean Darbelnet . Travaux réunis by Maurice Pergnier; préface de Danica Seleskovitch, Paris 1988 (Bibliothèque de l'information grammaticale. Collection "Linguistique" 21) (with list of publications)
  • Geneviève Mareschal, in: TTR. Traduction, terminology, rédaction , vol. 3, n ° 1, 1990, p. 13.
  • Geneviève Mareschal, Jean Darbelnet l'homme, sa pensée et son action, in: TTR. Traduction, terminology, rédaction , vol. 4, n ° 1, 1991, p. 145-150.

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personal data
SURNAME Darbelnet, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Darbelnet, Jean-Louis; Darbelnet, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French linguist, English and Romance studies
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1990