Van Alkemadelaan
806
NL-2597 BC The Hague
The Netherlands
Tel +31-70-3586745
E-mail: gorlee@xs4all.nl
Dinda L. Gorlée is an applied linguist and semiotician who brings together the semiotic discussion of translation in semiotranslation and transduction. She investigates the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce, the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Roman Jakobson’s intralingual, interlingual, and intersemiotic translation, cryptography and artificial languages, vocal translation.of musical texts (songs, opera and church hymns), and other forms of semiotic translation.
Native language Dutch [Netherlands]; excellent knowledge of Classical Latin and Greek; near-native knowledge of English, Spanish, and German; good knowledge of French, Portuguese, Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish; fair knowledge of Italian; basics of Finnish.
1961-1968 |
University of Groningen: Spanish, Dutch, English, Portuguese and Swedish languages, general linguistics and comparative literature, French law |
1977-1979 |
University of Amsterdam: law |
1983-1984 |
University of Bergen: Norwegian linguistics |
1964 |
B.A., Spanish linguistics and literature, University of Groningen |
1968 |
M.A., summa cum laude, Spanish, English and Portuguese linguistics and literature, University of Groningen |
1993 |
Ph.D., translation studies and semiotics, University of Amsterdam |
1981 |
Sworn legal translator and court interpreter, Dutch, Spanish. |
1999 |
Foundation Institute for Court Interpreters and Legal Translators, legal English |
1967-1968 |
University of Groningen, Library Assistant |
1968-1970, |
University of Groningen, Assistant Professor Spanish linguistics and translation |
1970-1983 |
State Examiners Board for Secondary Teachers of Spanish linguistics and translation |
1983-1991 |
University of Bergen, Senior Associate Professor Spanish linguistics and philosophy of language, Wittgenstein Archives of Bergen. |
1988-1992 |
Indiana University at Bloomington, IN, Research Associate Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies |
1988-1991 |
Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, IN, Visiting Scholar Peirce Edition Project |
1992 |
University of Amsterdam, Visiting Scholar translation studies |
1992, 1996 |
Pontificial University of Sao Paulo, Visiting Professor semiotics, translation studies and legal studies |
1992-1993 |
University of Groningen, Adjunct Professor, translation studies |
1992-2001 |
Foundation Institute for Court Interpreters and Legal Translators, Director legal translation |
1996, 1998 |
University of Ouagadougou, Visiting Professor translation studies (in cooperation with the Netherlands Ministery of Foreign Affairs and University of Groningen) |
1996 |
University of Vienna, Visiting Professor translation studies |
1997-2000 |
University of Innsbruck, Visiting Professor translation studies |
2001-2005 |
University of Helsinki, Visiting Professor and Director theses translation studies and semiotics |
2004-present |
University of Bergen, Research Associate Wittgenstein Archives |
2009-present |
University of Houston-Victoria, TX, Associate Editor American Book Review. From 2018, Reviewer American Book Review and symplokè. |
2014-present |
Member Advisory Board of Nordic Wittgenstein Society in book series Nordic Wittgenstein Studies (Berlin: Springer). |
2017-present |
Visiting Fellow Semiotics, Tianjin Foreign Studies University of Machangdao, Tianjin, China. |
2017-present |
Member Collegium of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS). |
2019-present |
Member Advisory Board of Journal of Semiotics and Cultural Studies, Shinawatra International University, Bangkok, Thailand. |
2019-present |
Member Scientific Advisory Board of Center for Semiotics and Cultural Studies, Shinawatra International University, Bangkok, Thailand. |
2022 |
Series Editor of book series Semiotics: Signs of the Times published in Brill Publishers (Leiden, the Netherlands). |
1997-2012 |
Legal Translation Agency (Juridisch Vertaalbureau Gorlée), The Hague, Director (all languages) |
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