Olaf Immanuel Seel

List of John Benjamins publications for which Olaf Immanuel Seel plays a role.

Title

Instrumentalising Foreign Language Pedagogy in Translator and Interpreter Training: Methods, goals and perspectives

Edited by Olaf Immanuel Seel, Silvia Roiss and Petra Zimmermann-González

[Benjamins Translation Library, 161] 2023. x, 291 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Translation Studies

Articles

This chapter intends to bring into beneficial interaction two language-based disciplines, i.e., foreign language acquisition (FLA) and translation studies (TS) and to demonstrate that the latter greatly benefits from the former. Concretely, by using FLA writing exercises in language courses for… read more
Seel, Olaf Immanuel, Silvia Roiss and Petra Zimmermann-González 2023 IntroductionInstrumentalising Foreign Language Pedagogy in Translator and Interpreter Training: Methods, goals and perspectives, Seel, Olaf Immanuel, Silvia Roiss and Petra Zimmermann-González (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Chapter
This paper examines presuppositions and non-verbal means, i.e. paralanguage and kinesics, as culture-pragmatic obstacles for translation and interpreting. On the basis of functionally orientated translation theory, its central aim is to demonstrate that misunderstandings may occur due to a mistaken… read more