Perspectives on Language Research

Marinela Burada is Professor of Linguistics at Transilvania University of Brașov, Romania. Her research interests relate to different areas subsumed under the domain of Linguistics, Academic Literacy, and Lexicography, and her findings were published in articles, book chapters, and monographs. Her work includes the book Research and Practice in Lexicography (with Raluca Sinu, 2016), a monographic study of dictionaries in the digital era.Oana Tatu is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters at Transilvania University of Brașov, Romania, and has a PhD in Linguistics. Her research and professional interests fall within the scope of literary translation, applied linguistics, and Renaissance English literature, and have materialized in several publications in these fields, most notably, the monograph Translating Shakespeare. The Challenge of the Romanian Language, a synchronic and diachronic contrastive survey of Shakespearean translations into Romanian. Raluca Sinu is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters at Transilvania University of Braşov, Romania. She holds a PhD in Linguistics, and is the author and co-author of articles and books in fields such as audiovisual translation, applied linguistics, and lexicography. Her book Humour in Film Subtitling (2013) represents an investigation into the strategies that Romanian translators employ when dealing with linguistic and extralinguistic humour.