The Linguist is a languages magazine for professional linguists, translators, interpreters, language professionals, language teachers, trainers, students and academics with articles on translation, interpreting, business, government, technology
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Students Claudia Betoldi Jennifer Chen Aneta Dutton Koshin Illingworth Emma Pick Thomas Russell Associates Zuzana Bien Emilie Declaron Michelle Doherty Tumay Forster Aurelie Geldof-Eke Sylwia Kamolli Muhammad Nawaz Khan Agnieszka Lomnicka Johanna Louw Bob Scott Giorgia Sessi Pavel Slama Ildiko Somogyi Janusz Szczygielek Nishat Zaman Shuangning Zhao Members Simin Abrahams Anthony Adamberry Shefa Alnaeme Michele Balduzzi Katarzyna Bedkowska Lidia Carney Ilva Dabolina Hilary Dyke Aniko Egerton Ian Horsfield Alina Iatagan Kyeong-Soo Kim Igor Kuznetsov Dominique Lambert Amandine Lepers- Thornton Ioana Lungu Rachael McCorriston Nadia Mekkaoui Siyamend Omer Asuncion Perkins Khanitha Picot Marion Plath Francesca Pozza Denise Preston Natalia Racheyskova Victoria Rowlands Matthias Schmidt-Curio Giorgia Sessi Maya Sinha-Ray Elena Sukhova Igor Timko Alexandra Titchmarsh Sek Lune Sharon Toh Agnieszka Tomeczek Kristina Valendinova Marguerite Vieira Ina Qian Wang Luanyi Xiao Dorota Zimniewicz Upgrades Caroline Beaumont Anne-Marie Chaloner Martin Conroy Nathaniel Elcock Chinenye Etteh Marilyn Eva Bertrand Larsimont Anne McIntyre Diane Moreau Joanna Parlak Patricia Pepper Emily Russell Yulia Tsybysheva Readmissions Issam Ismail Edita Jodonyte Catherine Kilbridge Enkelejda Nolan Angela Potter Amina Saif 34 The Linguist APRIL/MAY www.iol.org.uk INSTITUTE MATTERS ADMISSIONS The North West Society acts as a forum for linguists in the North West of England, offering workshops, talks on a range of subjects, networking and social meetings, normally in central Manchester. Visit www.iol.org.uk/membership/soc_northwest or email anda.lescinska@hotmail.co.uk for details or to join. NORTH WEST CALLING Nick Byrne Director of the LSE Language Centre since 1999, Dr Nick Byrne is also the UK Director of the Confucius Institute for Business and co-Director of the European Commission's LUCIDE project on multilingualism. He sits on the Executive Board of AULC and the Advisory Board of the British Academy project 'Born Global: Rethinking Language Policy for 21st Century Britain'. See p.11 Lucile Desblache Dr Lucile Desblache is Director of the Centre for Research in Translation and Transcultural Studies at the University of Roehampton, and the course convener of their MA in Audiovisual Translation. She is the editor of JoSTrans (www.jostrans.org), and her main areas of research are music and translation, and non- human/animal representations in contemporary cultures. See p.22 Janet Fraser Janet Fraser has been a staff translator, a multilingual journalist and a Senior Lecturer in Translation at the University of Westminster. Freelance since 2010, she now combines translation and editing with examining and training roles. She is also a member of The Linguist Editorial Board. See p.8 Charis Fisher Charis Fisher is in her final year of a Modern Languages degree at the University of Bristol. Following Erasmus placements in Toulouse and Bologna, she is now trip secretary of ESN Bristol, organising events and trips for international students at the university. See p.18 Rosie Goldsmith Rosie Goldsmith is a freelance journalist specialising in arts and current affairs in the UK and abroad. A former presenter for flagship BBC radio shows, she is now involved in several campaigns to support translation and language learning, including the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Language. See p.16 Eva-Maria Lohwasser Freelance interpreter and translator Eva-Maria Lohwasser MCIL was previously a Translation Manager at Lifeline Language Services in Preston. See p.20 Esyllt Meurig Esyllt Meurig was, until recently, Project Manager of Business Language Services, one of the UK's leading language service providers to business and professional people worldwide. See p.24 Nil Okan Paniguian Nil Okan Paniguian JP FCIL is a Turkish Language Trainer at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, a lecturer at SOAS and King's College, and a member of the Centre for Language Pedagogy at SOAS. She is also a freelance legal interpreter and a magistrate. See p.26 Dörte Schabsky Dörte Schabsky is co-Founder of Work Inn, a coworking space in Dortmund, Germany. She studied coworking for a recent MA in Translating Popular Culture at City University. See p.11 CONTRIBUTORS