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Dorrit Faber

Associate professor
Dorrit Faber

Department of International Language Studies and Computational Linguistics

Dalgas Have 15, 2Ø.052
DK - 2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 3295
Fax:+45 3815 3845
E-mail: df.isv@cbs.dk



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Affiliated with CRITT (Center for Research and Innovation in Translation and Translation Technology)

My research interests include ESP and translation in the legal domain; integrating content and language in higher education and English as lingua franca.

Primary research areas

  • Legal language and translation
  • Translation processes
  • Lexical semantics


Selected publications

Hjort-Pedersen, Mette & Dorrit Faber (2005) Legal Translation Training and Recognition of Information Needs - Of: Should the teaching of subject matter content be a thing of the past? In: LSP & professional cCommunication, vol. 5, no 1, pp 42-54. Copenhagen: Dansk Selskab for Fagsprog og Fagkommunikation.
Faber, Dorrit & Mette Hjorth-Pedersen (2004) Aspects of legal language understanding and translation - A discussion. 14th European Symposium on Language for Special Purposes (LSP 2003) 18th - 22nd August 2003: Communication Culture, Knowledge. University of Surrey.
Faber, Dorrit, Mette Hjort-Pedersen & Alex Klinge (2002) Introduction to English Legal Language. 2. edition. Copenhagen: CopenhagenBusinessSchool Press. 97 pages.
Hjort-Pedersen, Mette & Dorrit Faber (2001) Lexical Ambiguity and Legal Translation. In: Multilingua, Vol. 20, no. 4. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp 379-392.
Faber, Dorrit & Mette Hjort-Pedersen (2000) ‘X Executes Y’. From Sentence to Utterance Meaning in Legal English. In: Ruane, Mary and Dónall P.Ó Baoill (eds.): Integrating Theory and Practice in LSP and LAP. Applied Language Center, University College Dublin and the Irish Association for Applied Lingustics, pp 73-84.
Faber, Dorrit & Mette Hjort-Pedersen (1997) Execution. A Case of Underspecification in Legal English. I: Copenhagen Studies in Language, Vol. 20. Copenhagen: Samfunds-litteratur, pp 87-110.


Last updated by Karina Pedersen 31/01/2008