Juliane House - Biography#

Juliane House studied Applied Linguistics at the Universities of Heidelberg Germany and Toronto, Canada. She received her PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Toronto and Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Jyväskylä, Finland and Jaume I, Castellon, Spain. She was one of the founding members of the German Research Foundation’s (DFG) Hamburg Research Centre on Multilingualism. She is Professor Emerita, University of Hamburg, Full Professor at the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest, Hungary, and Distinguished University Professor at Hellenic American University, Nashua, USA and Athens, Greece. She is also Visiting Professor at Dalian University of Foreign Languages, Dalian, China and Beijing University of Science and Technology, China. She is Past President of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies. Her research interests include translation theory, cross-cultural pragmatics, discourse analysis, politeness studies, second language acquisition, and English as a global language. She has published widely in all these areas. Some of her recent books include Translation Quality Assessment: Past and Present (Routledge 2015), Translation as Communication across Languages and Cultures (Routledge 2016), Translation: The Basics (Routledge 2018; 2nd ed. 2024), Cross-Cultural Pragmatics (with D. Kadar, Cambridge University 2021), Expressions, Speech Acts and Discourse: A Pedagogic Interactional Grammar of English (Cambridge University Press, 2023, with W. Edmonson and D. Kadar), Linguistics for Translators (Routledge 2024, with A. Almanna), Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning (Edinburgh University Press, 2024, with D. Kadar). She is co-editor of the journal Contrastive Pragmatics (Brill), and co-editor of the book series Edinburgh Studies in Pragmatics (Edinburgh University Press).