Vilen Komissarov

Infobox Officeholder
name = Komissarov Vilen Naumovitch


nationality = Russian
birth_date = August 23, 1924
birth_place = Yalta, USSR
death_date = June 8, 2005
death_place = Moscow, Russia

Professor Vilen Naumovich Komissarov ( _ru. Комиссаров, Вилен Наумович) (August 23, 1924 — June 08, 2005) has gained recognition in Russia and beyond its borders as an authority on translation theory and methods of translator training (in Russian: Perevodovediniye - ПЕРЕВОДОВЕДЕНИЕ ), Head of the Department of Translation Theory, History and Criticism at Moscow State Linguistic University, he has a record of half a century of research and teaching in this field, as well as of practical work as a conference interpreter and translator.

elected bibliography

Komissarov has over ninety publications, including books.
* A Word on Translation (1973)
* Linguistics of Translation (1980)
* Theory of Translation (1990)
* Theoretical Basic of Methods of Translator Training (1997)
* General Theory of Translation (1999)

External links

* [http://www.ets.ru/demos/bk000067.pdf (Part of Book) Modern translation science (perevodovedenie). Modern translation. A course of lectures. Schoolbook. ETS Publishing House, 2004]
* [http://www.ets.ru/e/bk000072.htm Linguistic translation science in Russia. Schoolbook. M.- ETS Publishing House and Poluglossum, 2002.]
* [http://www.ets.ru/images/bk000067.jpgImage of last book by Prof. Komissarov - Modern translation science (perevodovedenie). Modern translation. A course of lectures. Schoolbook. ETS Publishing House, 2004)]