Jean-Paul Vinay
Jean-Paul Vinay | |
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| Born | 18 July 1910 Paris, France |
| Died | 10 April 1999 (aged 88) Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
| Academic background | |
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| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
| Sub-discipline | Translation studies |
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| Notable works | Stylistique comparée du français et de l'anglais |
Jean-Paul Vinay (18 July 1910 – 10 April 1999) was a French-Canadian linguist. He is considered one of the pioneers in translation studies, along with Jean Darbelnet, with whom Vinay co-authored Stylistique comparée du français et de l'anglais (1958), a seminal work in the field.[1][2]
Life and career
Vinay was born in Paris in 1910 and soon moved to Le Havre. He studied English and philology at the University of Caen and at the University of Paris before receiving an M.A. in phonetics and philology from University College, London, in 1937. In 1946, Vinay moved to Canada and became professor and head of the Department of Linguistics and Translation at the Université de Montréal. In 1967, he began teaching at the University of Victoria, until his retirement in 1976. He died in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1999.[3][4][5]
From 1948 to 1949, Vinay worked on developing a radiotelephony alphabet with sounds common to English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, in collaboration with the ICAO Language Section, which later became the NATO phonetic alphabet.[6][7]
References
- ^ Snell-Hornby, Mary (2006). The Turns of Translation Studies: New Paradigms or Shifting Viewpoints?. John Benjamins. p. 24. ISBN 90-272-1673-8.
- ^ Munday, Jeremy (2008). Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-415-39694-3.
- ^ Pym, Anthony (2016). Translation Solutions for Many Languages: Histories of a Flawed Dream. Bloomsbury. pp. 17–8. ISBN 978-1-4742-6110-4.
- ^ "Jean-Paul Vinay". Union Mundial pro Interlingua. 29 December 2006. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ "Vinay, Jean-Paul (fonds, P197)". Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française, Université d’Ottawa. Archived from the original on 23 August 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ "The Postal History of ICAO: Annex 10 - Aeronautical Telecommunications". ICAO. Archived from the original on 12 February 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
- ^ "Alpha, Bravo, Charlie: how was Nato's phonetic alphabet chosen?". The Week. March 2016. Archived from the original on 30 October 2017.