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A critical discussion of Hofstede’s concept of Power Distance
(Journal article, 2013)The aim of the paper is to critically describe and discuss the concept of power distance developed by Hofstede. It is divided into two parts: the first one focuses on the definition and discusses its extent and its ... -
A specialized parallel corpus of English and Spanish Free Trade Agreements for the study of specialized collocations
(Journal article, 2011)This paper describes the Corpus of Free Trade Agreements (henceforth FTA), a specialized parallel corpus in English and Spanish from Europe and America that is being prepared and aligned with Translation Corpus Aligner 2 ... -
Absent doctors, shy economists and polemic linguists? Writer manifestation in academic texts
(Journal article, 2004)The work reported here is part of a project funded by the Norwegian Research Council, for the period 2002-2004. Professor Kjersti Fløttum from the University of Bergen is project leader. The project title is Kulturell ... -
Analyzing LSP tekst types: From descriptive to prescriptive text (-TYPE) linguistics
(Journal article, 1998)In the last 15 years, numerous LSP genres have been analyzed and compared intralingually as well as interlingually and interculturally. The results of these analyses, however, have hardly been related to each other and ... -
Annerledeslandet
(Journal article, 2002)Leaming a foreign language implies far more than the acquisition of grammatical structures and a new vocabulary. Above all it means to master a whole range of language skills in a cultural context. Understanding ·the ... -
Approaches to terminology. Now that the dust has settled…
(Journal article, 2007)In this article we show examples of how the discipline of terminology is evolving and how diversification in methodology and new research questions emerge thanks to the participation of terminology theorists in multidisciplinary ... -
Arbeidslivets terminologi: fransk visitt i Origo. Fra praksis til teori
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Å oversette en juridisk tekst
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Begrepsforståelse - et bærende element i terminologi- og ordboksarbeidet
(Journal article, 2007)One of the statements in this article is that the translators’ profession is perhaps one of the most demanding professions you can think of. Professional translators are supposed to be both linguistically and factually ... -
Bilingualism and Translation Competence
(Journal article, 2012)In translation studies it is sometimes assumed that bilinguals take a specific approach to translations and/or are in possession of a special competence for translating. In my research project aspects of bilingualism and ... -
Blikk på og blikk for translatøreksamen i Norge
(Journal article, 2005)Professional translators in Norway have existed since the final period of the Union between Norway and Denmark through an Order in Council in 1800. The first national translators’ exam (Translatøreksamen) was arranged ... -
Business communication: Mapping a road for the future
(Journal article, 2011)This is a state-of-the-art paper which explores the challenges that the rapidly developing business world presents to language and communication researchers and teachers. It suggests a way forward in cooperation with ... -
Can experimental translation studies offer something to practising translators?
(Journal article, 2008)This paper looks at the potential implications of experimental translation research to practising translators. The paper begins by a short introduction of the methods used in data elicitation. Some of the findings ... -
Comments to Göpferich's Analysis
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Communicating about climate change: Linguistic analysis of climate texts
(Journal article, 2011)That climate change is happening and that it is human-induced are well-established facts in the international scientific community. Research-based knowledge about why and how the climate changes emanates from various natural ... -
Compositionality and deverbal nouns. Testing chomsky's lexcialist hypothesis
(Journal article, 2008)Scholars have different attitudes to the relationship between general linguistics and LSP. In this article I will discuss my own view on this relationship and its theoretical and methodological consequences. In the wake ... -
Consistency in Terminological Choice: Holy Grail or False Prophet?
(Journal article, 2008)The aim of this contribution is to problematise the notion of consistency in relation to terminological choice in the context of technical writing and translation. It is argued that the conventional wisdom of terminolog ... -
Context, culture, compensation Three basic concepts in translation studies
(Journal article, 1999)The last decades have witnessed the burgeoning of contextual cultural and cognitive issues in translation studies (TS). TS has come to realise that it shares much with experts in other fields of linguistic and extralinguistic ... -
Corpus-based translation studies 15 years on: Theory, findings, applications
(Journal article, 2010)In the field of scholarship known as Translation Studies, computerized corpora have come of age in descriptive as well as applied research. The aim of this paper is to show two main features that characterize corpus-bas ... -
Covert Translation, Language Contact, Variation and Change
(Journal article, 2006)The paper reports on a project which applies the model of translation evaluation designed by the present author to the question of whether the English language in its role as a global lingua franca changes textual norms ...