Jean-Paul Vinay

French-Canadian linguist

University of Caen
University of Paris
University College London

Academic workDisciplineLinguistSub-disciplineTranslation studiesInstitutions

Université de Montréal
University of Victoria

Notable worksStylistique comparée du français et de l'anglais

Jean-Paul Vinay (18 July 1910 – 10 April 1999) was a French-Canadian linguist. He is considered one of the pioneers in translation studies, along with Jean Darbelnet, with whom Vinay co-authored Stylistique comparée du français et de l'anglais (1958), a seminal work in the field.^[1]^[2]

Life and career

Vinay was born in Paris in 1910 and soon moved to Le Havre. He studied English and philology at the University of Caen and at the University of Paris before receiving an M.A. in phonetics and philology from University College, London, in 1937. In 1946, Vinay moved to Canada and became professor and head of the Department of Linguistics and Translation at the Université de Montréal. In 1967, he began teaching at the University of Victoria, until his retirement in 1976. He died in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1999.^[3]^[4]^[5]

References

^ Snell-Hornby, Mary (2006). The Turns of Translation Studies: New Paradigms or Shifting Viewpoints?. John Benjamins. p. 24. ISBN 90-272-1673-8.
^ Munday, Jeremy (2008). Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-415-39694-3.
^ Pym, Anthony (2016). Translation Solutions for Many Languages: Histories of a Flawed Dream. Bloomsbury. pp. 17–8. ISBN 978-1-4742-6110-4.
^ "Jean-Paul Vinay". Union Mundial pro Interlingua. 29 December 2006. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
^ "Vinay, Jean-Paul (fonds, P197)". Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française, Université d’Ottawa. Retrieved 23 August 2019.