Alexander Shveitser

Alexander Davydovich Shveitser (1923–2002) was a Russian linguist specializing in American English. A professor and doctor of philology, Shveitser was a translator and interpreter from English and German, one of the founders of the Russian theory of translation, and of the Soviet schools of simultaneous interpretation. He was a pioneering scholar in the nascent field of sociolinguistics.

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