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Dr Sabine Braun

Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies

MA/Diploma in Translation Studies (University of Heidelberg)
Dr phil. in English Linguistics (University of Tübingen)

 

Teaching

I teach translation, interpreting and applied linguistics at undergraduate and postgraduate level. I am also currently Programme Director of the MA in Business Translation with Interpreting.

Research interests

I have a dual background in translation/interpreting studies and language pedagogy. My main interest is in the broad area of 'communication and the new media' where I have focused on the strategic, pragmatic and discourse processing dimensions of communication, the new and emerging forms of audiovisual translation and interpreting and the use of new media in language pedagogy.

In my work in the area of remote interpreting (videoconference interpreting) I have analysed the adaptation strategies which interpreters develop in this unfamiliar and difficult form of interpreting. The use of videoconference interpreting is a continued research interest of mine, especially its emerging uses in public service interpreting. I am currently leading an EU-funded project consortium researching the viability and quality of videoconference/remote interpreting in criminal proceedings (AVIDICUS).

My interest in audiovisual media has also led me to conduct research into audiodescription, an emergent practice helping blind and partially sighted people to follow and enjoy audiovisual content (e.g. films, TV programmes, theatre plays). I am particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches to audiodescription as a complex form of intermodal mediation.

In the area of language pedagogy I have worked in a number of EU-funded research and development projects designing communicative language training materials based on authentic resources. Most recently I have developed a small video-based corpus of spoken English (ELISA) and a method for its pedagogic exploitation. I am particularly interested in how we can make spoken multimedia corpora and corpus analysis techniques fruitful in the context of communication, language learning and interpreter training, and am currently involved in an EU-funded project exploring these questions (BACKBONE).

I am interested in supervising Masters and PhD research in issues related to:

Intersemiotic translation, especially audiodescription

Remote and videoconference interpreting

The pragmatic foundations of translation and interpreting

Discourse processes in translation and interpreting

Translation and interpreting as strategic processes

Corpus linguistics in language, translation and interpreting research

Corpora in language pedagogy, translator interpreter training

Spoken language and spoken corpora

English language and linguistics

 

Publications
Books
(2006) (co-edited with K Kohn and J Mukherjee): Corpus Technology and Language Pedagogy: New Resources, New Tools, New Methods. Frankfurt: Lang.

(2005) (co-edited with K Kohn): Sprache(n) in der Wissensgesellschaft. Proceedings der 34. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik. Frankfurt: Lang.

(2004) Kommunikation unter widrigen Umständen? Einsprachige und gedolmetschte Kommunikation in der Videokonferenz. Tübingen: Narr. [Communication under adverse conditions? Monolingual and interpreted communication in video conferences]

Articles
(2008) Audiodescription research: state of the art and beyond. Translation Studies in the New Millennium 6, 14-30.

(2008) Review of Media for All, eds J. Díaz Cintas, P. Orero & A. Remael, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. Journal of Specialised Translation 10, 151-154.

(2007) Audio Description from a discourse perspective: a socially relevant framework for research and training. Linguistica Antverpiensia NS 6, 357-369. (available online)

(2007) Integrating corpus work into secondary education: from data-driven learning to needs-driven corpora. ReCALL 19:3 (Special Issue on Integrating Corpora in Language Learning and Teaching), 307-328.

(2007) Interpreting in small-group bilingual videoconferences: challenges and adaptation processes. Interpreting 9:1, 21-46.

(2007) Multimedia communication technologies and their impact on interpreting. In: M. Carroll, H. Gerzymisch-Arbogast, S. Nauert (eds) Audiovisual Translation Scenarios. Proceedings of the Marie Curie Euroconferences MuTra, Copenhagen 1-5 May 2006 (available online).

(2007) Designing and exploiting small multimedia corpora for autonomous learning and teaching. In: E. Hidalgo , L. Quereda, J. Santana (eds) Corpora in the Foreign Language Classroom. Selected papers from TaLC6. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 31-46.

(2006) ELISA - a pedagogically enriched corpus for language learning. In: S Braun, K Kohn, J Mukherjee (eds) Corpus Technology and Language Pedagogy: New Resources, New Tools, New Methods. Frankfurt: Lang, 25-47.

(2006) (with A Chambers) Elektronische Korpora als Resource für den Fremdsprachenunterricht. In: U Jung (ed) Praktische Handreichung für Fremdsprachenlehrer. Frankfurt: Lang, 330-337.

(2005) From pedagogically relevant corpora to authentic language learning contents, ReCALL Vol 17(1), 47-64.

(2003) Kommunikation unter widrigen Umständen? - Optimierungsstrategien in zweisprachigen Videokonferenz-Gesprächen. In: J Döring, WH Schmitz, OA Schulte (eds) Connecting Perspectives. Videokonferenz: Beiträge zu ihrer Erforschung und Anwendung. Aachen: Shaker, 167-185.

(2001) ViKiS - Videokonferenz mit integriertem Simultandolmetschen für kleinere und mittlere Unternehmen. In U Beck, W Sommer (eds) LearnTec 2001. 9. Europäischer Kongreß und Fachmesse für Bildungs- und Informationstechnologie. Karlsruhe, Schriftenreihe der Karlsruher Kongreß- und Ausstellungs GmbH, 263-273.

(2001) (with K Kohn) Dolmetschen in der Videokonferenz. Kommunikative Kompetenz und Monitoringstrategien. In: G Thome, C Giehl, H Gerzymisch-Arbogast (eds) Kultur und Translation: Methodologische Probleme des Kulturtransfers - mit ausgewählten Beiträgen des Saarbrücker Symposiums 1999 . Tübingen: Narr, 3-32.

 

Conference papers and presentations
For information on recent conference papers and presentations, please visit my personal homepage (http://www.sabine-braun.net)

 

 

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