Vahram Atayan

Vahram Atayan (* 1972 in Yerevan ) is a German linguist and translation scholar . He teaches as a professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , New Philology Faculty, Institute for Translation and Interpreting (IÜD).

Life

After graduating from high school in 1988, Atayan earned a degree in physics from Yerevan State University , Armenia. In 2001 he completed his studies as a qualified translator for Italian and French at Saarland University , where he obtained his doctorate in 2006 on the subject of macrostructures of argumentation in German, French and Italian . For this dissertation, Atayan received the Elise Richter Prize of the German Romanists Association in 2007 for the best linguistic doctoral thesis and, also in 2007, the Eduard Martin Prize of the Association of Friends of Saarland University for the best dissertation of the Philosophical Faculty II of the University of Saarland.

In 2011 he completed his habilitation on text and translation in the Romance languages: between necessity and possibility and has been professor of translation studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and head of the French and Italian departments at the Institute for Translation and Interpreting since 2012 .

Atayan has been working as a freelance interpreter and translator since 2005 and has a general sworn in for the Saarland courts and notaries for the languages ​​Armenian, French, Italian and Russian.

Atayan is a member of the German Association of Romanists and the German Association of Italianists. He is also a member of the Comité de lecture of the magazine Mots. Les langages du politique and co-editor of the RHETHOS series.

Publications (selection)

A complete list of scientific publications can be found on the website of the Institute for Translation and Interpreting at Heidelberg University.

Monographs:

• Macro-structures of argumentation in German, French and Italian . Frankfurt, ISBN 363156015X Peter Lang 2006
• Translation criticism methods: a theory- and application-based comparison . Saarbrücken, ISBN 3639228812 , VDM-Verlag 2010

Essays:

• (2005): "Rhétorique et argumentation dans des constellations communicatives complexes", in: Marillaud, Pierre / Gauthier, Robert (eds.): Rhétorique des discours politiques, actes du XXVe colloque d'Albi, Langages et significations , du 10 au 14 juillet 2004, Toulouse, 401-411.
• (2006): "Many voices - no voices. An attempt at a polyphony-based description of logos and ethos in the argumentation", in: Franceschini, Rita / Stillers, Rainer / Moog-Grünewald, Maria / Penzenstadler, Franz / Becker, Norbert / Martin, Hannelore (Ed.): Retorica: Orders and fractions. Contributions from the Tübinger Italianistentag , Tübingen, 101-116.
• (2007): "Structures of argumentation - an equivalence parameter in translation?", In: Gil, Al-berto / Wienen, Ursula (eds.): Multi-perspective issues of translation in Romania. Homage to Wolfram Wilss on his 80th birthday , Frankfurt, 61-93.
• (2009): "Délimitation des énoncés, polyphonie et argumentation: quelques considérations sur un 'affreuxproblemème'", in: PhiN - Philologie im Netz 49.
• (2009): "Rinforzo argomentativo e attenuazione argomentativa in francese, italiano, russo, spagnolo e tedesco: una proposta di analisi condotta sulla base di forum di discussione online", in: Gobber, Giovanni et al. (Ed.): Word Meaning in Argumentative Dialogue , vol. 1 (= L'analisi linguistica e letteraria "XVI, 2008/1, special issue), 331-342.
• (2009): "Electronic translation bibliographies as a translation-scientific tool. An exemplary study on the titles of French-German translations from the 16th to 17th centuries", in: Gil, Alberto / Schmeling, Manfred (ed.): Translate culture: Zur The Science of Translation in German-French Dialogue , Berlin, 167-180.
• (2009): "Metaphorical and metonymical word games: a translation problem?", In: Di Meola, Claudio / Gaeta, Livio / Hornung, Antonie / Rega, Lorenza (ed.): Perspektiven Drei. Files from the 3rd Conference on German Linguistics in Italy (Rome, February 14-16, 2008) , Frankfurt, 417-428.
• (2010): "Come esplicitare l'esplicitazione? Qualche considerazione sull'ipotesi dell'esplicitazione nella teoria della traduzione", in: Iliescu, Maria / Siller-Runggaldier, Heidi M. / Danler, Paul (eds.): Actes du XXVe Congrès International de Linguistique et de Philologie Romanes . Innsbruck, September 3-8, 2007, Tome 1, Berlin, 519-528 (with Mónika Kusztor).
• (2010): "L'ironie ducrotienne: Ducrot analyze à la Ducrot", in: Atayan, Vahram / Wienen, Ursula (ed.): Ironie et un peu plus. Hommage à Oswald Ducrot pour son 80ème anniversaire , Frankfurt, 9-25 (with Henning Nølke).
• (2011): "Propositional further relative clauses in technical language communication: some considerations on the tertium comparationis in language comparison", in: Lavric, Eva / Pöckl, Wolfgang / Schallhart, Florian (eds.): Comparatio delectat. Files of the VI. International workshop on Romance-German and intra-Romance language comparison. Innsbruck, 3.-5. September 2008 , Volume II, Frankfurt, 563-577.
• (2012): "Marqueurs de l'argumentation multiple dans la phrase relative", in: Doury, Marianne (Ed.): L'inscription langagière de l'argumentation , Verbum 23-1, Numéro spécial 93-117.

Web links

• Institute for Translation and Interpreting at the University of Heidelberg
• Literature by and about Vahram Atayan in the catalog of the German National Library