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Professor Peter Newmark

BA (University of Cambridge)
FIL (Life Member, Chartered Institute of Linguists)
Laurea h.c. (University of Trieste)
Hon. PhD. (Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Hon. D.Litt. (Masaryk University, Brno)
Hon. PhD. (University of Westminster)

 

Academic interests

Translation Studies

English Language

Linguistics

 

Selected publications

Approaches to Translation. Pearson Education, 1981 (translated into Arabic, Chinese and Italian).

About Translation. Multilingual Matters, 1983.

Paragraphs on Translation. Multilingual Matters, 1985.

A Textbook of Translation. Pearson Education, 1988 (translated into Chinese, Galician, Greek, Slovene and Spanish).

More Paragraphs on Translation. Multilingual Matters, 1993.

"The Curse of Dogma in Translation," Lebende Sprachen, Vol. 36/105-8, 1991.

"Truth and Culture in Translation," Lebende Sprachen, Vol. 40/49-51, 1995.

 

Other activities
Writing "Translation Now," bimonthly for The Linguist (Chartered Institute of Linguists journal).

Vice-President, Council member, Editorial Board Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists.

Press Officer of Amnesty International (Guildford Group) and of United Reformed Church Guildford Music Society.

Occasional lectures, papers, seminars at British and overseas universities (Vittoria, Spain and Centre de Traduction, Luxembourg in 2001).

 

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