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Dr ŁUCJA BIEL

    

Lucja Biel
  • Assistant professor (adiunkt) in the Department of Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication
  • Vice Director, Student Affairs, 2005–2008
  • coordinator of LSP translation teaching in the BA and MA Translation Programme
  • coordinator of postgraduate course in Translation Studies 2010-2011, a component ofthe EU-funded Programme for the Implementation of Modern Educational Solutions at the University of Gdańsk/HC OP 4.1.1., in charge of Legal and Business Translation specialisation
  • member of the Rector’s team for the Development of Education Quality Assurance System at the University of Gdańsk 2008/09
  • academic supervisor of the LINGUANA Specialised Translation Student Society
  • member of the Comparative Legilinguistics. International Journal for Legal Communication andInvestigationes LinguisticaeEditorial Boards
  • sworn translator of English and Polish certified by the Ministry of Justice, freelance translator and proofreader with expertise in legal and business translation (since 1997)

Education

  • 1993–1998 Translation Programme, MA-degree English Philology studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, MA thesis: “A Cognitive Analysis of Distance in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and its Polish Translation by Jan Rybicki” (supervised by Prof. dr hab. E. Tabakowska)
  • 1998–2004 Philological Doctoral Studies, University of Gdańsk, Poland, Ph.D. thesis on psychological and social distance in communication: “Distance in English and Polish” (supervised by Prof. dr hab. R. Kalisz), Ph.D. degree (cum laude)
  • 2005–2007 University of Cambridge Diploma in an Introduction to English Law and the Law of the European Union
  • 2004–2005 School of American Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law and UG
  • 1997–1998 Management and Business Course, Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Training courses and certificates

  • CETRA 2008,20th Doctoral Summer School, Leuven Research Centre for Translation, Communication and Cultures, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, August 2008
  • Editing for Translators, Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA, October 2008
  • Certificate in Collaborative Translation Teaching, University Ramon Llull and University of Vic, Barcelona, Spain, July 2008
  • Certificate in Teaching Translation: Language and Technology, Braga, Portugal (Consortium for the Training of Translation Teachers, Universidade do Minho) June 2008
  • Translation Research Summer School, June 2007, University College London, UK
  • Training course for teachers of the Professional Status and Ethics of Sworn Translators, Polish Society of Sworn and Specialised Translators TEPIS, Warsaw 2009.
  • 06.2000 and 06.2001 doctoral courses: “Summer Linguistics 2000” and “Summer Linguistics 2001”, International Graduate School in Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
  • BPP Professional Education: Accounting and Finance for Translators (2005), Insurance, Banking and Financial Instruments for Translators (2005), Commercial Law, Bills of Exchange, Stock Exchange (2006)
  • Internal training courses organised by the Department of Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication (Subtitles Workshop, Wordfast, Wiki Workshop, 2009)
  • Translation workshops organised by the Polish Society of Translators and Interpreters STP, Gdańsk (1999,2000)
  • LSP translation workshops organised by the Polish Society of Sworn and Specialised Translators TEPIS, Warsaw (2005,2006, 2007,2008, 2009)

Membership in scientific and professional associations

  • member of European Society for Translation Studies
  • member of International Language and Law Association
  • expertmember of TEPIS (Polish Society of Sworn and Specialised Translators)
  • member of TERTIUM (Krakow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies)

Teaching experience: courses taught

  • University of Gdańsk, BA & MA Programmes in Bilingual Translation (2006 - ...): Legal Translation, Certified Translation, EU Translation, BA seminar on LSP Translation, Introduction to Specialised Translation, Specialised Languages; Academic Writing, Integrated Skills (Legal & Business English), Linguistics, MA seminar
  • City University London, MA in Legal Translation, EN>PL translation workshops, guest lecturer (Contracts, 2009), visiting lecturer (Litigation, Property Law, 2010)

 Research interests:

  • Translation Studies: LSP translation, in particular legal and business translation, terminology and language of Polish, UK and US law, LSP translation research methodology, LSP translation teaching, application of corpora in Translation Studies
  • Functional Linguistics, in particular Cognitive Linguistics

Research projects

  • Polish and English Legal Phraseology – postdoctoral degree (habilitacja) project
  • Contrastive terminology of Polish, UK and US law for translation purposes
  • Specialised translator training

Publications

  1. Article: Lucja Biel “Oficjalna odmiana języka a dystans emocjonalny i socjolingwistyczny w powieści Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day i w przekładzie Jana Rybickiego U schyłku dnia.” In: W. Kubiński, O. Kubińska and T. Z. Wolański (eds), Przekładając Nieprzekładalne. Gdańsk: WUG, 2000.
  2. Article: Lucja Biel“New English-Polish and Polish-English Dictionaries: Some Problems Related to Legal, Financial and Insurance Terminology.” Translation Journal 2004, Vol. 8:3 www.accurapid.com/journal/29poldic.htm.
  3. Article: Lucja Biel“Incongruity of Company Law Terms Categorization of Polish Business Entities and their English Equivalents.” Translation Journal 2006, Vol. 10:4 www.accurapid.com/journal/38legal.htm.
  4. Article: Lucja Biel “Współpraca unijna w sprawach karnych. Podstawowe terminy w praktyce translacyjnej.” Lingua Legis 15 (2007).
  5. Article: Lucja Biel “Analiza porównawcza nazw spółek w prawie polskim, angielskim i amerykańskim w wybranych słownikach.” Lingua Legis 15 (2007).
  6. Article: Lucja Biel“Translation of Multilingual EU Law as a Sub-genre of Legal Translation.”In: D. Kierzkowska (ed.), Court Interpreting and Legal Translation in the Enlarged Europe 2006. Warszawa: Translegis, 2007.
  7. Review: Lucja Biel“Relevance Studies in Poland.” In: W. Kubiński, O. Kubińska (eds), Przekładając Nieprzekładalne III. Gdańsk: WUG, 2007.
  8. Article: Lucja Biel “Językowy obraz relacji interpersonalnych: różnice w wyrażaniu dystansu psychologicznego i społecznego w języku angielskim i polskim”. In: A. Szczęsny and K. Hejwowski (eds), Językowy obraz świata w oryginale i przekładzie. Siedlce 2007. 513-521.
  9. Article: Lucja Biel“Working for Translation Agencies as a Freelancer: A Guide for Novice Translators.” Translation Journal 2008, Vol. 12:2 www.accurapid.com/journal/44freelancer.htm.
  10. Article: Lucja Biel “Memorandum of Association: Terminologia związana z zawiązaniem i rejestracją spółki company limited by shares.” Lingua Legis16 (2008).
  11. Article: Lucja Biel“Legal terminology in translation practice: dictionaries, googling or discussion forums?” SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation. 2008, Vol. 3:1 www.skase.sk/Volumes/JTI03/pdf_doc/BielLucja.pdf.
  12. Article: Lucja Biel“Communicative Distance in Interaction: Verbal and Nonverbal Expression in English”. In: R. Kiełtyka, D. Osuchowska and E. Rokosz-Piejko (eds), Language, Literature, Culture and Beyond. Festschrift for Grzegorz A. Kleparski on his 50th Birthday. Rzeszów: WUR. 2008: 175-183.
  13. Article: Lucja Biel „Terminologia polskiego, angielskiego i amerykańskiego prawa spółek: organy spółki” Lingua Legis 17 (2009), 46-57.
  14. Note: Lucja Biel „Szkolenia dla nauczycieli przekładu specjalistycznego”; Biuletyn TEPIS, winter 2009(68), 18-19.
  15. Article: Lucja Biel “Organization of background knowledge structures in legal language and related translation problems, ” Comparative Legilinguistics. International Journal for Legal Communication(1/2009), 176-189.
  16. Note: Lucja Biel (UG), Danuta Przepiórkowska (UW), „Szkoły badań metodologicznych nad przekładem dla doktorantów”, Biuletyn Tepis autumn 2009/winter 2010 n. 71, 59-60.
  17. Article: Lucja Biel “Collaborative projects with external stakeholders in the translation classroom”, In: Liudmila Sereda (ed.), Quality and Qualifications in Translation and Interpreting, Grodno: Y.Kupala State University of Grodno, 2010, 50-59.
  18. Article: Lucja Biel „Terminologia i frazeologia reprezentacji spółki (pełnomocnik, prokurent iprzedstawiciel) oraz ich angielskie ekwiwalenty”, Lingua Legis 18, 2010.
  19. Review: Lucja Biel „The long-felt need of a legal translation textbook: Review of Przekład prawny i sądowy by Anna Jopek-Bosiacka, ” Comparative Legilinguistics. International Journal for Legal Communication, in press.
  20. Article: Lucja Biel “Training translators or translation service providers? EN 15038:2006 standard of translation services and its training implications”, in press (Journal of Specialised Translation)
  21. Article: Lucja Biel “Integrating professional realism in legal translation classes: translation competence and translator competence”, in press
  22. Article: Lucja Biel “The textual fit of legal translations: focus on collocations in translator training”, in press
  23. Article: Lucja Biel “Corpus-Based Studies of Legal Language for Translation Purposes: Methodological and Practical Potential”, in press
  24. Article: Lucja Biel “Proxemic motivation in language: relational metaphors and registers”, in press

Papers read at international conferences

1. 1st International Translation Conference Translating Untranslatable, Gdańsk-Elbląg, University of Gdańsk, 24-26.04.1999. Paper: “Oficjalna odmiana języka a dystans emocjonalny i socjolingwistyczny w powieści Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day i w przekładzie Jana Rybickiego U schyłku dnia.”
2. Language and the Law: East Meets West. University of Łódź, 12-14.09.2005. Paper: “Statutory and Contractual Precision-Regulation of Semantic Field Boundaries in the Language of Contracts and Related Translation Problems.”
3. The Warsaw International Forum Court Interpreting and Legal Translation in the Enlarged Europe; TEPIS, Warsaw, 23-25.08.2006. Paper: “Translation of Multilingual EU legislation as a Sub-genre of Legal Translation.”
4. 1st International Conference on Comparative Forensic Linguistics: Law, Language and Society, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 27-29.09.2006. Paper: “Organization and Transfer of Background Knowledge Structures in Legal Translation. A Cognitive Linguistics Analysis.”
5. Political Discourse, Media and Translation. Aston University, Birmingham, UK, 7.04.2007. Paper: “Changing Communicative Distance in the Polish Political Discourse and its English Translation.”
6. MuTra: EU-high level scientific conference: Multidimensional Translation - LSP Translation Scenarios, University of Vienna, Austria, 30.04-4.05.2007. Paper: “Asymmetry of legal translation strategies on the example of English and Polish company law terminology.”
7. Change and Resistance, An International Conference on Social Transformations and Education, University of Gdańsk, 15-17.06.07. Paper: “Polish Language and Foreign Language Policy in Postcommunist Poland: New Educational Challenges.”
8. International Conference on Cognitive Linguistics; Parasession on Passive, Reflexive, Impersonal and Related Constructions, University of Gdańsk, Sopot, 12-13.07.07. Paper: “Degrees of impersonality in English and Polish legal language: defocused agents and buried verbs.”
9. Newcastle University Conference on Interpreter and Translator Training and Assessment (NU-CITTA), 9-10.09.2007. Paper: “Market-based course design: teaching LSP translation to undergraduate students of English.”
10. English for Specific Purposes: Terminology and Translation Workshop, P. J. Šafárik University, Kosice, Slovakia, 13-14.09.2007. Paper: “Legal terminology mining in translation practice: dictionaries, googling or discussion forums?”
11. Language, Literature, Culture and Beyond: the First Rzeszów Anglistentag; University of Rzeszów, 23-24.10.2007. Paper: “Communicative distance in interaction: verbal and nonverbal expression.”
12. 1st International Conference on Language and Health Care: Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain, 24-26.10.2007. Paper: “Did you find the leaflet easy to understand? Accessibility of English patient right brochures from a translator’s perspective.”
13. 2nd Conference on Comparative Forensic Linguistics: Law, Language and Society; Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 5-8.12.06. Plenary lecture: “Sworn translators and certified translation in Poland.”
14. 2nd International Conference of the 360˚ Conference Series: Encompassing Knowledge. Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 15-17.05.08. Paper: “Cross-Linguistic Communication of Specialised Knowledge in Legal Translation: How Does Meaning Emerge in Translation?”
15. 3rd Conference on Comparative Forensic Linguistics: Law, Language and Society; Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 5-7.07.08. Paper: “Translation competence and translator competence: Integrating professional realism in legal translator training.” 
16. Tempus conference on Curriculum, Language and the Law, University of Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 18-21.09.08. Paper: “Legal translation strategies versus established equivalents: on the role of convention in the field of company.
17. EMT 2009 conference, Towards a Network of European Master’s in Translation Programmes, Directorate-General for Translation, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, 16-17.03.2009. Paper: “A case study: Launch of the Translation Programme”, Panel IV From Philology to Translator Training Programmes.
18. Teaching Translation and Interpreting 2, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland, 24-25.04.2009. Paper: “EN 15038 translation standard: implications for specialised translator training”.
19. RLL: Researching Language and the Law: Intercultural Perspectives, University of Bergamo, Italy, 18-20.06.09. Paper: “Communicative distance in a cross-cultural perspective: legal information materials in institutionalized settings”.
20. 4th Conference on Translation, Interpreting and Comparative Legi-Linguistics, Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, 2-4.07.09. Paper: „Polish Law Collocations: corpus-based project for translation purposes”.
21. 9th Biennial IAFL Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands, 6-9.07.09. Paper: “Legal translator training: knowledge-based approach to terminology for inverse translation purposes”.
22. 17th European Symposium on Languages for Specific Purposes: The Purposes of LSP research, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 17-21.08.09. Paper: „Corpus-based studies of legal language for translation purposes”.
23. Quality and Qualifications in Translation and Interpreting IV, Baltic Sea Region University Network, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Belarus, 8-9.10.09. Paper: “Professional realism in translation programmes: Collaborative projects with external stakeholders”.
24. 1st International Workshop on Legal Terminology “LawTerm 2010 – Legal Terminology: Research and Practice”, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland, 28-29.05.2010. Paper: “Corpus-based analysis of Polish contract names: recurrent collocational patterns and their English translation equivalents”.

Papers read at national conferences

1. Język w komunikacji, WSHE, Łódź, 8-10.11.1999. Paper: “Komunikacja przy pomocy manipulowania dystansem fizycznym”.
2. Imago Mundi 2005: Językowy obraz świata w oryginale i w przekładzie. Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw, 25-27.11.2005. Paper: “Problemy translatoryczne wynikające z różnic w wyrażaniu dystansu psychologicznego i społecznego w języku angielskim i polskim”.
3. 20th Legal and LSP Translation Workshop, Tepis, Warsaw, 29-30.09.2006. Paper: “Spółki w prawie angielskim i amerykańskim oraz ich polskie odpowiedniki”.
4. 21st Legal and LSP Translation Workshop, Tepis, Warsaw, 30.09.2007. Paper: “Terminologia statutu spółki akcyjnej i articles of association company limited by shares”.
5. Imago Mundi 2007: 50 lat polskiej translatoryki; Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw, 23-25.11.07. Paper: “Tłumaczenie broszur urzędowo-informacyjnych dla Polaków mieszkających w Wielkiej Brytanii”.
6. 22nd Legal and LSP Translation Workshop, Tepis, Warsaw, 27-28.09.08. Paper: “Equity capital i debt capital: terminologia związana z finansowaniem działalności spółki.”
7. 23rd Legal and LSP Translation Workshop, Tepis, Warsaw, 26.09.09. Paper: “Terminologia polskiego i angielskiego prawa spółek – reprezentacja”.
8. Medius Currens III „Norma i jakość w teorii, praktyce i dydaktyce przekładu tekstów specjalistycznych”, 9-10.04.2010, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń. Paper: “Hipoteza uniwersaliów translatorycznych a jakość przekładu prawniczego”.

Grants and scholarships

  • Government research grant no. 2251/B/H03/2010/38 (2010-2011): Corpus-based study of legal collocations)
  • UG habilitacja scholarship 2008-2010
  • Dictionary of Legal Collocations for Translators, BW/F600-5-0129-9 grant, 2009
  • Project preparation grants: BW 4800-5-02-08-7 (2007) and BW 4800-5-029-8 (2008) Corpus-Based Comparative Analysis of Polish and English Legal Terminology
  • Early stage researcher grant (EU scholarship), MuTra conference grant/Austria, 2007
  • Conference grant: BW F600-5-0508-8
  • Conference grant: BW 4800-5-0355-1
  • Ph.D. scholarship from the Foundation for the Development of Gdańsk University
  • Summer school grants: University of Southern Denmark and University of Gdańsk (2000, 2001)

Awards

A badge of merit, Polish Society of Sworn and Specialised Translators PT TEPIS, 2010

Last updated: 18.06.2010
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