Jean-Paul Vinay Explained

Birth Date:18 July 1910
Discipline:Linguist
Sub Discipline:Translation studies
Notable Works:Stylistique comparée du français et de l'anglais
Birth Place:Paris, France
Death Place:Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Snell-Hornby, Mary. 2006. The Turns of Translation Studies: New Paradigms or Shifting Viewpoints?. John Benjamins. 24. 90-272-1673-8.
  2. Book: Munday, Jeremy . Jeremy Munday

    . Jeremy Munday . 2008. Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications. 2nd. Routledge. 56. 978-0-415-39694-3.

  3. Book: Pym, Anthony. 2016. Translation Solutions for Many Languages: Histories of a Flawed Dream. Bloomsbury. 17–8. 978-1-4742-6110-4.
  4. Web site: Jean-Paul Vinay. Union Mundial pro Interlingua. 29 December 2006. 23 August 2019.
  5. Web site: Vinay, Jean-Paul (fonds, P197). Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française, Université d’Ottawa. 23 August 2019.