Contents, Use, Usability

Dr. Ioannis Karras holds two B.A. degrees in English and Linguistics from the University of Calgary, Canada; a M.Ed. in TEFL from the Hellenic Open University, Greece, a M.Sc. in Intercultural Communication from the University of Warwick, the UK and a PhD in Applied Linguistics, University of Athens, Greece. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting at Ionian University, Greece, and a module coordinator on the TESOL master’s program of the Hellenic Open University. He has lectured as a visiting professor or as an invited speaker at various universities around the world. Moreover, Dr. Karras has delivered numerous talks at international conferences and has conducted seminars with national and international audiences. He has published numerous edited book chapters and articles in journals and conference proceedings in applied linguistics, TEFL, and intercultural studies. Among his academic and teaching interests is the use of dictionaries in TEFL and translation studies.

Dace Liepiņa (Dr. paed.) is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities of University of Latvia in Riga, Latvia, where she lectures on Stylistics, Legal Translation and Interpreting, English for Law and Business. Her research interests include terminology, stylistics, translation and interpreting. During the EU pre-accession period she was involved in terminology development as an interpreter and translator for various PHARE projects on harmonization of Latvian legislation. After EU accession she has continued to follow developments in Latvian term-formation practice and quality of English-Latvian dictionaries in the field of law as a primary prerequisite for successful training and subsequent work of interpreters and translators.

Oleksandra Litvinyak is an Associate Professor at the Hryhoriy Kochur Department of Translation/Interpreting Studies and Contrastive Linguistics, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Lviv, Ukraine), where she lectures in simultaneous and consecutive interpreting. She believes that since interpreters use various lexicographical sources in their everyday activity, a deeper inquiry into the topic facilitates the development of one’s professional competence both as an interpreter and interpreter trainer.

Debora Onik is a PhD student of Literary Studies at the University of Rzeszów, Poland. Her fields of expertise encompass literature and Translation Studies, especially translating children’s literature and books concerning folklore from Polish into English and vice versa. Being a translator herself, Debora uses multifarious translation tools on a daily basis, hence her particular interest in dictionaries. The said interest led to her participating in the creation and development of an electronic repository of legal terminology whose purpose is to help translators with their job.

Michał Organ, PhD is an assistant professor at the Department of Translation Theory in the Institute of English Studies, University of Rzeszów (Poland). His main research interests include audiovisual translation, humor translation, censorship and manipulation in translation, unofficial translation, translation of tourist information texts and CAT tools.

Dorota Osuchowska is Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Rzeszów, Poland, where she lectures in Applied Linguistics, Lexicography and Academic Writing. Her research revolves around dictionary use, phraseology and gendered language.

Valentyna Savchyn is Associate Professor at the Department of Translation Studies and Contrastive Linguistics of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine, where she lectures in Lexicography, History of Literary Translation and Art of Literary Translation. Her research interests are in the history of literary translation in Ukraine and role of translators, literary translation and dictionaries in the totalitarian society. She has published over a hundred of articles and book chapters in Ukraine and abroad, and is the author of Mykola Lukash – Podvyzhnyk Ukrainskoho Khudozhnioho Perekladu [Mykola Lukash as a Pillar of Ukrainian Literary translation] (2014) and a compiler of a biobibliographical guide “Mykola Lukash” (2003).

Mateusz Szal, PhD, is a lecturer at Rzeszów University of Technology, where he teaches technical English in the areas of mechanical and material engineering. His expertise includes ESP and technical translation, as well as issues of applied linguistics.