Departments and Units

Research

The Department of Translation conducts research in the following areas:

  • Theoretical and practical aspects of specialised translation (especially legal and economic translation)
  • Translation theory: concepts in translation studies ; ethics of professional translation ; philosophy and translation
  • Literary translation; translation criticism
  • Cognitive aspects of the translation process
  • Linguistic aspects of translation: comparative studies for the translator; pragmatics and translation; standard language and the language of translation
  • Teaching English as a foreign language; English as a lingua franca
  • Economics of languages; multilingual communication management

Various studies, including doctoral dissertations, are in progress in these areas.

The Department’s professors lead two research groups: Transius, which specialises in legal and institutional translation, and élf (Observatoire économie langues formation) which focuses on economics, languages and education.

Publications by members of the Department are listed in the UNIGE open archive, in the Geneva Library Network catalogue and on teachers’ personal pages.

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