MARIA TERESA CABRÉ
María Teresa Cabré has been a professor of Terminology and Linguistics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) since 1994. She is now also a professor emerita at UPF, where she develops teaching and research activities. She founded the University Institute for Applied Linguistics (IULA), which she chaired from 1994 to 2004, as well as Iulaterm, its internal research group.
WHO IS SHE?
She is a Catalan linguist and philosopher specializing in Lexicology, lexicography and terminology. She is a professor at the Pompeu Fabra University, and is the most representative author in the field of international terminology.
ACADEMIC CAREER
She founded the Observatori de Neologia in 1989 at the Universitat de Barcelona, which was transferred to UPF in 1994 as a research project.
She was appointed coordinator of the Pompeu Fabra Professorship.
She has been a full member of the Institute for Catalan Studies (Institut d’Estudis Catalans, IEC) since 1989.
She was elected President of the Philological Department of the IEC in 2014.
THEORY
COMMUNICATIVE THEORY OF TERMINOLOGY
The communicative theory of terminology is a linguistic approach which studies terms simultaneously as units of language, of cognition and of social function.
WHAT IS TRANSLATION FOR TERESA CABRÉ?
I often explain to my translation students, when somebody shows the little interest that has to be formed in terminology, that the specialized translator can not carry out his professional activity without knowing the terminology of the field of specialty to which the text that translates belongs, but which has the Freedom to make different degrees of commitment to terminology.
