Juliane House (born 1942)[1] is a German linguist and translation studies scholar. Her research interests include translation theory and practice,contrastive pragmatics,discourse analysis,politeness theory,English as lingua franca,intercultural communication,and global business communication.[2]
House received a degree in English and Spanish Translation and International Law from the University of Heidelberg,Germany. Later,she worked as a translator and researcher. She earned her BEd,MA and PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (1976) at the University of Toronto,Canada.[3]
She is a senior member of the German Science Foundation’s Research Centre on Multilingualism[2] at the University of Hamburg,[3] where she held a position from 1979 until her retirement in 2008.[4] While there she directed several projects on translation and interpreting.
She was one of the founding members of IATIS and one of its former presidents.[2][5]
Since 2008,she has been the Chair of Linguistics Programs and Director of the PhD in Applied Linguistics:Discourse in English Language Teaching,Testing or Translation/Interpreting Program at Hellenic American University.[6][7]
House,J. &Dániel Z. Kádár (2021). Cross-cultural Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press.
Edmondson,W.J. House,J. &Dániel Z. Kádár (2023). Expressions,speech acts and discourse - A pedagogical interactional grammar of English. Cambridge University Press.
Almanna,A. &House,J. (2024). Linguistics for translators. Routledge.
House,J. &Dániel Z. Kádár (2024). Cross-cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning. Edinburgh University Press.
Edited volumes
House,J. &Blum-Kulka,S. (1986). Interlingual and Intercultural Communication. Narr.
Blum-Kulka,S.,House,J. &Kasper,G. (1989). Cross-Cultural Pragmatics:requests and apologies. Praeger.
House,J.,Kapser,G. &Ross,S. (2003). Misunderstanding in Social Life. Discourse Approaches to Problematic Talk. Routledge.
Bibliography
Probst,J.:Ein Kompliment in Ehren …Aspekte eines "höflichen" Sprechaktes in mehreren Sprachen,in:Übersetzen,Interkulturelle Kommunikation,Spracherwerb und Sprachvermittlung - das Leben mit mehreren Sprachen. Festschrift für Juliane House zum 60. Geburtstag,Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht,2003
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