Professor Vilen Naumovich Komissarov (russian: Комиссаров, Вилен Наумович) (August 23, 1924 – June 8, 2005) has gained recognition in
Russia and beyond its borders as an authority on
translation theory and methods of translator training (in Russian: Perevodovediniye - ПЕРЕВОДОВЕДЕНИЕ ). He was also Head of the Department of Translation Theory, History and Criticism at
Moscow State Linguistic University
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, former_names = Moscow Imperial Commercial School(1804–1917) Moscow Institute of New Languages(1930–1935) Maurice Thorez Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages(1935–1990)
, motto = ''Lingua facit pacem''
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, and has a record of half a century of research and teaching in this field, as well as of practical work as a conference interpreter and translator.
Selected bibliography
Komissarov has over ninety publications, including books.
* A Word on Translation (1973)
* Linguistics of Translation (1980)
* Theory of Translation (1990)
* Theoretical Basic of Methods of Translator Training (1997)
* General Theory of Translation (1999)
References
External links
(Part of Book) Modern translation science (perevodovedenie). Modern translation. A course of lectures. Schoolbook. ETS Publishing House, 2004
* [http://www.ets.ru/images/bk000067.jpg Image of last book by Prof. Komissarov - Modern translation science (perevodovedenie). Modern translation. A course of lectures. Schoolbook. ETS Publishing House, 2004)]
Linguists from Russia, Komissarov, Vilen
Soviet translators
1924 births
2005 deaths
Russian translation scholars
20th-century Russian translators
20th-century linguists
Academic staff of Moscow State Linguistic University
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