Gerhard Pisek
Ass.-Prof. Dr.
Room: 40321
Office hours: Tuesday & Friday, 10:00 - 11:00
Research Interests
- Dubbing and subtitling
- Translation and culture
- The translation of wordplay
- Translation in foreign language teaching
- English loan words in German
- Language and football
CV
Exchange student in Winslow, Me. (USA) before studying English and German (Teacher Training Programme) at Innsbruck University.
Doctoral dissertation (1992) on dubbing films from English into German: Die große Illusion: Probleme und Möglichkeiten der Filmsynchronisation. Dargestellt an Woody Allens Annie Hall, Manhattan und Hannah and her Sisters.
Selected Publications
1) Die große Illusion: Probleme und Möglichkeiten der Filmsynchronisation. Dargestellt an Woody Allens Annie Hall, Manhattan und Hannah and her Sisters (WVT, Trier 1992).
2) "Übersetzung im universitären Fremdsprachenunterricht: Probleme und Möglichkeiten." Fremdsprachendidaktik und Übersetzungswissenschaft, ed. Martin Stegu und Rudolf de Cillia, Frankfurt 1997, 107-121.
3) The Linguistics of Football, ed. Eva Lavric, Gerhard Pisek, Andrew Skinner, Wolfgang Stadler (Narr, Tübingen 2008).