Sylvia Kalina

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Sylvia Kalina (* 1947 in Bremen ) is a German linguist and translation scholar. She taught at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg at the Institute for Translation and Interpreting (IÜD) and at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne at the Institute for Translation and Multilingual Communication (ITMK).

Life

After her studies from 1966 to 1970 at the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITD) of the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg the subjects English , French and the content subject law with graduation diploma interpreter, Kalina initially worked as a conference interpreter. From 1980 to 1999 she taught interpreting training in English at the IÜD of Heidelberg University and researched in the field of conference interpreting and interpretation didactics. In 1997 she received her doctorate. phil. with a dissertation on the subject of strategic processes in interpreting - theoretical principles, empirical studies, didactic consequences . In 1999 Kalina was appointed professor with the subject “Theory and Practice of Interpreting” and in 2004 with the subject “Multilingual Communication - Focus on Translation” at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, where she taught until her retirement in autumn 2012. Her main research interests at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences were interpretation didactics and quality assurance in interpreting. In 2009/10 she took on a visiting professorship at the University of Vienna and in 2011/12 and 2014 a teaching position at the University of Graz . She is involved in research projects on relay interpreting , quality assurance in interpreting and Improving Police and Legal Interpreting (ImPLI) and has been teaching at Heidelberg University and Cologne University of Applied Sciences since 2012.

Memberships

Publications (selection)

  • Interpreting and discourse analysis - requirements for interpreting services . In: Manfred Beyer, Hans-Jürgen Diller u. a. (Ed.): Realities of Translating (English and English lessons 55/56). Winter, Heidelberg 1995 ISBN 978-3-8253-0321-1 pp. 233-245
  • Strategic processes in interpreting. Theoretical foundations, empirical studies, didactic consequences (Language in Performance 18). Gunter Narr, Tübingen 1998 ISBN 3823349414
  • For professionalization in interpreting - suggestions for research and teaching . In: Andreas F. Kelletat (Ed.): Interpreting: Contributions from research, teaching and practice (publications by the Department of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germersheim . Series A - Treatises and edited volumes). Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2001 ISBN 978-3-631-36799-5 pp. 51-64
  • Impromptu translation - a translational form of exercise . In: Britta Nord, Peter A. Schmitt (Eds.): Traducta Navis. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 2003 ISBN 978-3-86057-632-8 pp. 103-117

Co-editing

  • Sylvia Kalina, Silke Buhl, Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast (eds.): Interpreting: Theory • Practice • Didactics - with selected contributions from the Saarbrücken symposia (reports from the Advanced Translation Research Center (ATRC) at Saarland University). Röhrig University Press, St. Ingbert 2000. ISBN 978-3-86110-267-0
  • Sylvia Kalina, Joanna Best (Ed.): Translation and Interpreting. A guide . Francke, Tübingen 2002. ISBN 9783825223298
  • Sylvia Kalina, Wolf Baur, Felix Mayer , Jutta Witzel (eds.): Translate into the future. Challenges of globalization for interpreters and translators (proceedings of the international conference of the Federal Association of Interpreters and Translators (BDÜ), Berlin, 11-13 September 2009). BDÜ, Berlin 2009 ISBN 9783938430248
  • Sylvia Kalina, Michaela Albl-Mikasa, Sabine Braun (eds.): Dimensions of Second Language Research . Narr Francke Attempto, Tübingen 2009 ISBN 978-3-8233-6536-5

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personal data
SURNAME Kalina, Sylvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen