Juliane House (born 1942) is a German linguist and

translation studies Translation studies is an academic interdiscipline dealing with the systematic study of the theory, description and application of translation, interpreting, and localization. As an interdiscipline, translation studies borrows much from the vari ...

scholar.

Biography

House received a degree in English and Spanish Translation and International Law from the

University of Heidelberg } Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, (german: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; la, Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, ...

, Germany. Later, she worked as a translator and researcher. She earned her BEd, MA and PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 ...

, Canada. She is a senior member of the German Science Foundation’s Research Centre on Multilingualism at the

University of Hamburg The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vo ...

, where she has directed several projects on translation and interpreting. Her research interests include translation theory and practice, contrastive pragmatics, discourse analysis, politeness theory, English as lingua franca, intercultural communication, and global business communication. She is the president of IATIS. Juliane House is currently 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.

Publications

House's published works include: *A Model for Translation Quality Assessment (1977 and revisited 1997) *Let's Talk and Talk About It: A Pedagogic Interactional Grammar of English (1981) with Willis Edmondson *Interlingual and Intercultural Communication (1986) with Shoshana Blum-Kulka *Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: requests and apologies (1989) with Shoshana Blum-Kulka and Gabriele Kasper *Einführung in die Sprachlehrforschung (1993, revised ed. 2011) with Willis Edmondson *Misunderstanding in Social Life. Discourse Approaches to Problematic Talk. (2003) with Gabriele Kasper and Steven Ross *Multilingual Communication (2004) with Jochen Rehbein. *Translation (2009). *Translatory Action and Intercultural Communication (2009) with Kristin Bührig and Jan ten Thije. *English as a Lingua Franca. Special Issue of Intercultural Pragmatics vol 6, No. 2. 2009. *Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations. (2010) with Kurt Braunmüller. *Globalization, Discourse, Media. In a Critical Perspective. (2010) with Anna Duszak and Lukasz Kumiega. *Impoliteness in Germany. (2010) Intercultural Pragmatics 7:4. 2010 * House, J. (2015). Translation quality assessment: Past and present. Routledge. * House, J. (2016). Translation as communication across languages and cultures. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. * House, J. (2018). Translation: The basics (First edition). Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.

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

References

1942 births Living people Heidelberg University alumni University of Toronto alumni Linguists from Germany German translation scholars Academic staff of the University of Hamburg German women writers German translators {{Germany-translator-stub