Dr. sc. Zrinka Šimunić Kučinić
+387 33 445 203, +387 63 194 692
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Meet dr. sc. Zrinka Šimunić Kučinić
Linguist. Discourse Specialist.
Researcher. Translator. Interpreter.
French Language Teacher.
My Research and Professional Interests
My basic scientific interest is discourse analysis and how it touches upon media research, traductology and language didactics. The focus of my scientific work and research includes discourse analysis, text linguistics, genre analysis, referential pragma-semantics, discourse approach to analysis and evaluation of the translation process and didactics of French as a foreign language
Published Works
DISCOURSE LINGUISTICS
Covering the issues of analysis of complex discourse categories in modular interaction-cognitive perspective, my doctoral dissertation was published in the electronic edition of the University of Geneva in 2005 and printed in the form of a book published by Editions Universitaires Européennes in 2010.
Apart from the doctorate, so far fourteen of my categorised papers have been published, the theoretical framework of which is the modular approach to the complexity of the discourse organisation: ten original scientific papers, one previous communication, two review papers and one professional paper in the scientific publications. I gave presentations at ten international scientific meetings (in Croatia, Switzerland, Portugal and Romania).
Services I offer
The results of the conducted surveys show that best results are achieved by the modular approach to the complexity of discourse organisation and that modular approach has a comparative advantage with regard to other analysis models precisely in those areas that demand developed abilities in the production and interpretation/evaluation of various types and genres of oral and written discourse in various languages.
One such area is interpreting and translation as well as evaluation of translator’s competencies and translation quality control. The potential users of this model of analysis are translators, translation project managers and evaluators of translation competencies. Thus, the modular approach to the complexity of the discourse organisation can serve translators / translation project managers as a good translation strategy / translation quality control method in the measure in which the previous analysis of different dimensions and forms of discourse organisation in the source language is a precondition for its precise and complete translation into the target language. For the evaluators of translation competencies, the modular approach can serve as a theoretic framework for comparative analysis of translation variations.
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+387 33 445 203, +387 63 194 692
