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Maria Teresa Cabré
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Maria Teresa Cabré i Castellví (born in 1947), often known as M. Teresa Cabré, is a famous linguist from Catalonia, Spain. A linguist is someone who studies language and how it works. She is a special professor (called emeritus) of Linguistics and Terminology at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). Terminology is the study of special words and phrases used in specific fields, like science or medicine.
Since 2021, she has been the president of the Institute for Catalan Studies, which is a very important group for the Catalan language. She is an expert in areas like how words are formed and used (this is called lexicology and lexicography), terminology, and how people use language in conversations (this is called discourse analysis).
Biography
Maria Teresa Cabré i Castellví was born in L'Argentera, a town in Baix Camp, Catalonia, Spain, in 1947.
She studied Romance philology, which means she learned a lot about languages that come from Latin, like Spanish, French, and Catalan. She earned her degree and doctorate in 1976. She taught as a professor at the University of the Balearic Islands from 1970 to 1971. Later, she taught at the University of Barcelona from 1971 to 1993. Since 1994, she has been teaching Linguistics and Terminology at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF).
From 1982 to 1988, she was the director of TERMCAT. This is an organization that works with terminology in the Catalan language. She also led the University Institute of Applied Linguistics at Pompeu Fabra University. She is currently the director of the Center of Reference in Linguistic Engineering (CREL) for the Catalan Research Plan.
Maria Teresa Cabré helped start several important language networks. These include the Iberoamerican Terminology Network (Riterm) and the Pan-Latin Terminology Network (Realiter). She is also part of the lexicon group of the European Linguistic Research Association. Since 2019, she has been an International Member of the China Language Policy and Standardization Center. As the head of the Institute of Catalan Studies, she has suggested creating a standard dictionary for the entire Catalan language.
Awards and Honours
Maria Teresa Cabré has received many important awards for her work:
- In 2007, she won the Eugen Wüster International Terminology Award in Vienna.
- In 2008, she was made a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, which is a special honour from France for people who have contributed to arts and literature.
- In 2015, she received the Creu de Sant Jordi, one of the highest civil honours in Catalonia.
- She has also received an honoris causa (an honorary degree) from the University of Geneva in 2018.
- She also has an honorary degree from the Universidad Ricardo Palma in Lima, Peru.
Selected Works
Here are some of the books and works Maria Teresa Cabré has written:
- Terminología y cognición, 1980
- Lexicologia i semàntica, 1985
- Els diccionaris catalans, de 1940 a 1988, 1991
- La terminologie théorie, méthode et applications, 1992
- Terminology : theory, methods, and applications, 1998
- Terminología y modelos culturales, 1999
- La terminología : representación y comunicación : elementos para una teoría de base comunicativa y otro artículos, 1999
- Textos de terminólogos de la Escuela Rusa, 2001
- La enseñanza de los lenguajes de especialidad : la simulación global, 2006
- Mots nous en català : una panoràmica geolectal = New words in Catalan : a diatopic view, 2014
- La Terminologia avui : termes, textos i aplicacions, 2018
See also
In Spanish: Maria Teresa Cabré para niños
