Annjo Klungervik Greenall
Background and activities
I'm professor of English language at the Department of Language and Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. I defended my PhD thesis on Paul Grice's Cooperative Principle, in 2002. Since then, I made a detour via sociolinguistics before ending up with a specialism within translation studies, which is where I currently do most of my work within teaching and research.
I am currently head of the department's English section.
Research interests:
- English as a global (source) language
- The ontology of translation
- Translation and language change
- Translation as communication - educational, discourse analytical and socio-political perspectives
- Translation of pragmatic phenomena (e.g. humour, politeness, swearing)
- Song translation
Supervision:
I supervise MA and PhD theses within the abovementioned areas (and other areas). Here's a list of some of the MA theses I have supervised: https://backends.it.ntnu.no/syndicator-web/public/files/992d8c5d-0944-36d9-b535-0b024fe2aa31. If you have an idea for a project, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Projects:
Currently, I'm co-editing an anthology, together with colleagues from the University College of Østfold, the University of Helsinki, and the Ionian University in Corfu. The anthology is provisionally entitled Song Translation Studies: Lyrics in Context(s).
A second currently active, international collaboration project has ties all the way to the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. Together with Professor Lucía Aranda at the School of Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas I'm working on a project entitled Social-media quotes in news texts and their translations.
Previous projects I have taken part in include Voices of Translation: Rewriting Literary Texts in a Scandinavian Context (UiO), co-editorship of the book Textual and Contextual Voices of Translation, and of a special issue of Perspectives.
Memberships:
I'm a member of IATIS (International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies), and of the editorial board of Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice.
Translation projects:
In 2012 I released a CD with my own translations into Norwegian of a selection of songs from Billie Holiday's reportoire (Eg vandrar langs kaiane, Øra Fonogram). In 2018 I released a second CD containing translations of English-language, Norwegian pop-songs into Norwegian (Løgn og forbannet gjendiktning, Øra Fonogram). Both are available in iTunes, and on YouTube.
Popular dissemination:
In addition to publishing articles for a broader audience in the daily press, appearing on radio and giving talks at various kinds of event (see CRIStin), I sometimes publish short articles on my blog, on the broad topic of 'English in Norway' (in Norwegian). I also produce content for Gyldendal's online learning platform Salaby.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2021) Making a case for a descriptive-explanatory approach to song translation research: Concepts, trends, models. TransÜD. Arbeiten zur Theorie und Praxis des Übersetzens. vol. 113.
- (2019) Introduction: voice, ethics and translation. Perspectives: Studies in Translatology. vol. 27 (5).
- (2019) Translation and Adaptation as Recontextualization: The Case of The Snowman. Adaptation. vol. 12 (3).
- (2019) Poems to be recited or lyrics to be sung? Bob Dylan in Norwegian translation. mTm A Translation Journal. vol. 11.
- (2018) The discursive (re-)construction of translational ethics. Perspectives: Studies in Translatology.
- (2017) Fast forward to the past? Popular-song-translation communities as spaces for language acquisition and learning. Vita Traductiva. vol. 9.
- (2017) Erlend Loe's style in translation: The differing voices of first- and second-language translators. mTm A Translation Journal. vol. 9.
- (2015) Translators’ voices in Norwegian retranslations of Bob Dylan’s songs. Target. vol. 27 (1).
- (2012) Attracting international students by means of the web: Transadaptation, domestication and cultural suppression. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. vol. 216.
- (2011) Translating breaches of intersubjective constraints on interaction: The case of swearing in Roddy Doyle's novel The Commitments. Meta : Journal des traducteurs. vol. 56 (3).
- (2009) Gricean theory and linguicism: Infringements and physical violence in the relationship between Manuel and Basil Fawlty. Journal of Pragmatics. vol. 41 (3).
- (2009) Towards a new theory of flouting. Journal of Pragmatics. vol. 41 (11).
- (2004) MT in the EU: Globalization, gisting, and the increasing acceptance of context-heavy interpretation. Translation Studies in the New Millennium: An International Journal of Translation and Interpreting. vol. 2.
- (2003) Monologism and dialogism in machine and human translation. Translation Studies in the New Millennium: An International Journal of Translation and Interpreting. vol. 1.
Artistic productions
- (2018) Greenall, Högberg & the Language: Løgn og forbannet gjendiktning. Løgn og forbannet gjendiktning
- (2017) Engelskspråklige, norske pophits på nynorsk. null
- (2017) Norske, engelskspråklige pophits på nynorsk. null
- (2016) Konsert på Oversatte dager 2016. null
- (2016) Pop som poesi: Engelskspråklig norsk pop i nynorsk oversettelse. null
- (2015) Norsk på nynorsk. null