Professor Magnar Brekke

 

E-mail: Magnar.Brekke@NHH.NO Professor Magnar Brekke
Telephone: +47 55 959329
Fax: +47 55 959328
Title: Professor, PhD
Date of birth: 1943-07-06
Nationality: Norwegian
Teaching languages: English, Norwegian
Teaching areas/course definitions
Bachelor: Business Communication, American Civilization
Master/Doctoral courses: Text Linguistics, Translation Theory, Linguistics
Research:  
Present: Corpus Analysis, Terminology and Knowledge Management, LSP Translation
Former: Syntax, Machine Translation
Selected publications: 2004:
Linguistic aspects of the translation of scientific and technical text, in Kittel, H. et al. (eds)Translation: An International Encyclopedia of Translation Research, pp. 619-635. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin.

2002:
"TERMINEC. A Clearinghouse for Economics Text and Terminology", in Peters, P., Collings, P & Smith, A, (eds) New Frontiers of Corpus Research. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

2001:
"LSP Lexicography and Terminography: A Complementary View", in Mayer, F. (ed) Language for Special Purposes: Perspectives for the New Millennium. Proceedings of The 12th European Symposium on LSP, pp. 179 - 187. Gunther Narr Verlag.

1999:
"From the British National Corpus to the WWW Cybercorpus: A Quantum Leap into Chaos?", in Kirk, J.M.(red) Corpora Galore. Analyses and Techniques in Describing English. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

 

 


 


 
   
Visiting professor/visiting scholar:
 		  
  Wolfson College, Cambridge University (1998)
Brigham Young University, Utah (1990-91),
University of Reading (1983-84)