Nune Ayvazyan

Lecturer / Lectora

Coordinator of the Masters in Professional English-Spanish Translation, URV

Coordinator of Mobility and SMILE

Education:

BA in English Studies, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2012)

Masters in Translation Studies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2013)

PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2017)

Teaching:

English language and translation

Research areas:

Translation Studies, English as a Foreign Language, Multilingualism in Minority Communities

Personal website:

http://www.intercultural.urv.cat/research/ayvazyan/

Recent publications:

Ayvazyan, N., & Pym, A. (2022). Portraying Linguistic Exclusion. Cases of Russian speakers in the province of Tarragona, Spain. In F. Grin, L. Marácz and N. Pokorn (Eds.) Advances in Interdisciplinary Language Policy, pp. 237-256. John Benjamins.

Pym, A., Ayvazyan, N., & Prioleau, J. (2022). Should raw machine translation be used for public-health information? Suggestions for a multilingual communication policy in Catalonia. In E. Monzó-Nebot and C. D. Mellinger (Eds.) Linguistic Policies for Social Justice, Special issue of Just. Journal of Language Rights & Minorities, Revista de Drets Lingüístics i Minories, 1(1), 71-99. https://doi.org/10.7203/Just.1.24880.

Ayvazyan, N. and A. Pym (2018). Mediation choice in immigrant groups. A study of Russian speakers in southern Catalonia. Language Problems and Language Planning, 42(3): 344-364.

Pym, A. and Ayvazyan, N. (2018). Linguistics, translation and interpreting in foreign-language teaching contexts. In Kirsten Malmkjær (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Linguistics, pp. 393-407. London and New York: Routledge.

Ayvazyan, N. and A. Pym (2016). West enters East. A strange case of unequal equivalences in Soviet translation theory. In Larisa Schippel and Cornelia Zwischenberger (Eds.) Going East: Discovering New and Alternative Traditions in Translation Studies, pp. 221-245. Berlin: Frank & Timme.

Ayvazyan, N. (2016). Review of 'Discourses of Regulation and Resistance: Censoring Translation in the Stalin and Khrushchev Era Soviet Union'. Translation Studies

Pym, A. and Ayvazyan, N. (2015). The case of the missing Russian translation theories. Translation Studies, 8(3), 321-341. DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2014.964300.