A driving force behind the development of vocationally oriented language teaching programmes, in 1967, together with Anthony Crane, he launched the first postgraduate diploma in technical and specialised translation in the UK, at the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster).īorn in Brno, in the Czech republic, Newmark had an English father who ran a successful textiles business. He was also an indefatigable champion of language learning, arguing for government recognition, resources and commitment, and had an influential role in the Chartered Institute of Linguists, of which he became president. His publications ranged over three decades, from Approaches to Translation (1981) to the chapter on linguistic theories of translation that he contributed to the Routledge Companion to Translation Studies (2009). While some writing in this field, which is related to comparative linguistics, semantics and socio-linguistics, can be very dry, Newmark always enlivened what he had to say with practical examples.
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