Klaus Schubert (linguist)

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Klaus Schubert (born July 4, 1954 ) is a German linguist and professor at the University of Hildesheim . His research area there is communication optimization. Together with Leona Van Vaerenbergh he is the editor of the online magazine trans-kom.

Life

Klaus Schubert studied physics and computer science at the University of Hamburg as well as general linguistics and Slavic and Scandinavian philology at the University of Kiel and the University of Uppsala . From 1983 to 1985 he worked as a sociolinguist at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and then until 1990 as a computer linguist and project manager in language technology research and development in the software house BSO / Buro voor Systeemontwikkeling BV in Utrecht ( Netherlands ); from 1990 to 1992 he worked as a consultant at BSO / Language Technology BV in Baarn (Netherlands). From 1992 to 2009 he taught at the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences as a professor of language data processing and technical translation before he accepted the call from the University of Hildesheim. Klaus Schubert has been a professor at the Institute for Translation Studies and Specialized Communication in Hildesheim since 2009. His main research interests are applied linguistics , specialist communication , translation studies , interlinguistics and language technology .

Memberships and offices

  • Society for Applied Linguistics (GAL): Head of Section 10 Translation and Interpreting Science
  • German Society for Translation and Interpreting Studies (DGÜD): Board member 2002–2008
  • European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) & International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT)
  • European Society for Translation Studies (EST)
  • Society for Interlinguistics (GIL)

Publications

  • Active and passive in German and Swedish. Kiel: Christian Albrechts University 1982
  • together with Friederike Braun and Armin Kohz: Salutation research. Annotated bibliography on sociolinguistics of the address. Tübingen: Narr 1986 ISBN 3-87808-366-1
  • Metataxis. Contrastive Dependency Syntax for Machine Translation. (Distributed Language Translation 2.) Dordrecht / Providence: Foris 1987
  • Knowledge, language, medium, work. An integrative model of monolingual and multilingual specialist communication. (Forum for technical language research 76.) Tübingen: Narr 2007 ISBN 3-8233-6305-0

Permanent collaboration:

  • trans-kom. Journal for translation studies and specialist communication. Scientific online journal. Editing: Leona Van Vaerenbergh, Klaus Schubert since 2008
  • TransÜD. Work on the theory and practice of translation and interpreting. Book series. Editors: Klaus ‐ Dieter Baumann, Hartwig Kalverkämper, Klaus Schubert since 2013. Berlin: Frank & Timme

literature

  • Carmen Heine (Ed.): Text and translation: theory and methodology of translation. Tübingen: Narr 2006 ISBN 3-8233-6194-5

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Schubert, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1954