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Mette Hjort-Pedersen

Associate professor
Mette Hjort-Pedersen

Department of International Language Studies and Computational Linguistics

Dalgas Have 15, 2Ø.044
DK - 2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 3328
Fax:+45 3815 3845
E-mail: mhp.isv@cbs.dk



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

Primary research areas

  • Legal language
  • Legal translation
  • Translation processes
  • Lexical semantics

Administrative functions

Member of Head of Department's committee


Selected publications

Hjort-Pedersen, Mette & Dorrit Faber (2005): Legal Translation Training and Recognition of Information Needs - Or: Should the teaching of subject matter content be a thing of the past? In: LSP & Professional communication, vol. 5, no 1, pp 42-54. Copenhagen: Dansk Selskab for Fagsprog og Fagkommunikation.
Faber, Dorrit & Mette Hjort-Pedersen (2204): 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. 2nd edition. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School 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 LanguageCenter, UniversityCollegeDublin and the Irish Association for Applied Lingustics, pp 73-84.
Faber, Dorrit & Mette Hjort-Pedersen (1997): Execution. A Case of Underspecification in Legal English. In: Copenhagen Studies in Language, Vol. 20. Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur, pp 87-110.


Last updated by Karina Pedersen 31/01/2008