Profil Dr. John Stewart

VITA

• seit 2003:  Akad. Mitarbeiter am IÜD
• Ph.D.: Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin, December 2003
• Dissertation: The Fundamental Difference Between Child and Adult Language Acquisition: A Longitudinal, Naturalistic Study of Parameter Resetting in Swedish Interlanguage
• M.A.: Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin, May 1998
  Thesis: A Contrastive Typological Analysis of English, German, and Swedish    
• B.A.: German, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Germanic Languages, December 1995

Forschungsinteressen

• Zweitspracherwerb in unterschiedlichen Lebensphasen
• Sprachliche Interferenzen in der Übersetzung
• Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft
• Sprachkontakt
• Bilingualismus
• Arealtypologie

Lehrprojekte

• 2020: Lokalisierung einer Augmented-Reality-App für krebskranke Kinder von augmented education ins Englische
• 2019-2020: Lokalisierung der Software CorpusExplorer für Korpuslinguistik ins Englische
• 2017-2018: Übersetzung der beiden Bücher von Marianne Meyer: Weibeck. Aus der Geschichte eines tausendjährigen Dorfes (2001) sowie Auswanderung aus dem kleinen Dorf Weibeck im Weserbergland in den Jahren 1845-1895 (2015) ins Englische
• 2005-2010: Lehr- und Forschungsprojekt Teaching Medical Translation unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Joachim Kornelius.

schwerpunkte Lehre

• allgemeine Linguistik
• kontrastive Linguistik
• Fachübersetzung (Medizin, IT)
• gemeinsprachliche Übersetzung
• Amerikanistik

Monographien

• Ureland, P. Sture & John Stewart (eds). Minority Languages in Europe and Beyond - Results and Prospects. Studies in Eurolinguistics, Vol. 9. Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2015

Buchübersetzungen

• Hoeppe, Götz. Why the Sky is Blue (Blau – die Farbe des Himmels). Princeton University Press, 2007.
• Schmid, Heiko. Economy of Fascination: Dubai and Las Vegas as Themed Urban Landscapes (Ökonomie der Faszination - Las Vegas und Dubai als Beispiele thematisch inszenierter Stadtlandschaften). Berlin / Stuttgart: Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2009.

aufsätze

• (With Wencke Orbán and Joachim Kornelius) “Cooperative Translation in the Paradigm of Problem-Based Learning.” In: Frank Außtermühl & Joachim Kornelius (eds.), Learning Theories in Translation Studies.  Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2008.
• “Can Medical Terminology be Taught Using a Problem-Based Approach?” In: Kerstin Brenner und Anja Holderbaum (eds), Gebundener Sprachgebrauch in der Übersetzungswissenschaft – Festschrift für Joachim Kornelius zum 60. Geburtstag. Trier: Lighthouse Unlimited, 2007.
• “Transfer of Nordic languages and peoples to North America: the state of the art.” In: P. Sture Ureland, (ed), From the Russian rivers to the North Atlantic - Migration, Contact and Linguistic Areas / Studies in Eurolinguistics Vol. 7, 2010.
• Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Eurolinguistics. Forthcoming from Logos Verlag, Berlin.
• (With Joachim Kornelius) “Translation meets Medicine: Teaching Medical Terminology.” In: AREAS Annual Report on English and American Studies 29, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2005.
• “Is There a Fundamental Difference? The Availability of Universal Grammar in Child versus Adult Second Language Acquisition.” In: Juana Liceras, et al. (eds), L2 Links: Proceedings of the 2002 Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-6) Conference. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2003.

• “Back to Basics: some theoretical preliminaries for the Germanic Substrate Hypothesis” at the International Conference on Nordic and General Linguistics. Universität Freiburg, 2012.
• “Applying Concept Systems to Specialist-to-Specialist Medical Translation,” at Teaching Medical Translation III International Symposium, Heidelberg University, July 7, 2011.
• “The Areal Linguistics of Speech Rhythm and Stress/Pitch Patterns in Languages of Europe,” at Lingua, cultura e identità, hosted by the Eurolinguistica Sud Associazione, Rome, April 18-20, 2011.
• “A comparative study of German-English and Swedish-English language contact in the United States,” at Language and Society in Present-Day Russia and Other Countries, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, June 21-26, 2010.
• “The Reception Phase in Medical Translation: Building Blocks of LSP Reading Comprehension,” at Teaching Medical Translation II International Symposium, Heidelberg University, July 7, 2009.
• “German and Swedish influence on regional varieties of American English in the Midwest.” Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) 42^nd Annual Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, September 9, 2009.
• “Syntax Patterns in Medical Texts.” Teaching Medical Translation International Symposium, Heidelberg University, July 3, 2008.
• “Weighing the Evidence for the Germanic Substrate Language(s): Atlantic, Uralic, or none of the above?” at The Seventh International Symposium on Eurolinguistics in Berlin, Germany, 2006.
• “Nordic Languages and Peoples in North America: a survey of the literature,” at The Sixth International Symposium on Eurolinguistics in Uppsala, Sweden, 2005.
• “The Roots of the Germanic Vowel Shift,” at 11^th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, University of California, Davis, April 21-22, 2005.
• “Is There a Fundamental Difference? The Availability of Universal Grammar in Child versus Adult Second Language Acquisition,” at Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-6) Conference in Ottawa, Canada, April 29, 2002.
• “Zwei bahnbrechende Übersetzungen, oder wie man eine Schriftsprache erschafft” [“Two groundbreaking translations, or: How to create a written standard language.” Commencement lecture on Gothic and Early New High German bible translations at the graduation ceremony of Heidelberg University’s Seminar for Translation and Interpreting], December 2007.
• “How to Document a Dying Language: the Texas German Dialect Project,” The Other Six Flags over Texas Symposium, University of Texas at Austin, March 28-29, 2003.
• “Can an Old Dog Learn New Tricks? In Search of the Fundamental Difference 
  between Child and Adult Language Acquisition,” U.T. Linguistic Circle, September 6, 2002.
• “Child-Adult Differences in Language Acquisition,” Seminar in foreign language pedagogy, Professor Zsuzsanna Abrams, University of Texas at Austin, October 9, 2001.
• “På jagd efter den grundläggande skillnaden mellan den tidiga och den sena språkinlärningen” [In search of the fundamental difference between early and late language acquisition], Work in Progress Seminar, Gothenburg Linguistics Department, November 28, 2000.