Institut Ramon LLull

Prof. Carsten Sinner of Leipzig University, next Mercè Rodoreda Chair visiting professor at The Graduate Center - CUNY

Language.  New York, 27/09/2019

Prof. Sinner will be teaching the course Castellano y catalán en Cataluña: cuestiones normativas, estatus y actitudes lingüísticas for students enrolled in the Ph.D. Program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures (LAILAC) at The Graduate Center - CUNY, invited by The Mercè Rodoreda Chair for Catalan Language and Literature. The Rodoreda Chair, created in 2003 and funded by Institut Ramon Llull, each semester offers a course in Catalan literature and culture, or a course in Catalan sociolinguistics, alternatively. 




Carsten Sinner graduated in translation (Spanish, Portuguese) at Humboldt University (Berlin). PhD at Potsdam University on Spanish in Catalonia, Habilitation/Second book on Portuguese in the 18th and 19th century. He holds the chair of Applied Linguistics and Translatology (Ibero-Romance Languages) at Leipzig University and is also director of the Basque, Catalan, and Galician centres as well as of the Judeo-Spanish Research Centre at the same institution. His research focuses on contact linguistics, translation, mediation and the historiography of linguistics and translatology. Visiting professor at several universities, including the University of Havanna, Cuba, the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, the Catolic University of Temuco, Chile, and the University of Brasília, Brazil.

Among his recent publications are Varietätenlinguistik (Narr, Tübingen, 2014), “Sprachmittlung im universitären Übersetzungsunterricht” (Hispanorama 155 (2017), 4-10) and, together with Beatriz Morales, “Translatologische Perzeptionsstudien als Grundlage der Bestimmung gelungener Übersetzung” (Lebende Sprachen 60 (2015), 1, 111-123).

Friday, September 27, 2019, 6:30pm

The Graduate Center - CUNY, Room 4116

365 Fifth Ave., New York

“Influencias lingüísticas: ¿prueba de degradación o señal de vitalidad de una lengua?”

Lecture by Prof. Carsten Sinner, Universität Leipzig

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. 

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