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Gabriela Saldanha Viva

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Email g.s.viva@medisin.uio.no
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Visiting address Kristine Bonnevies Hus (3rd floor) Blindernveien 31 0371 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1150, Blindern 0318 Oslo

I am a researcher at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE) working on several research and educational projects linked to the Sustainable HEalth Corpus (SHE).

I am a linguist and discourse analyst with a background in translation studies. I am currently interested in how language shapes our knowledge of the world and how it can both restrict, challenge, and expand the work of the imagination as a collective social process. I am also interested in how research methdologies shape our understanding of what counts as knowledge. 

After graduating from from the Universidad de la República (UdelaR, Uruguay) with a degree in Legal Translation, I did an MPhil at UMIST (now University of Manchester), and a PhD at Dublin City University, Ireland. Before joining the University of Oslo, I worked as a Lecturer in Translation and Language Engineering at Imperial College London and as a Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. 

Past research grants

  • CircleU Interdisciplinary Research Network: Global Health and Individual Responsibility: Complementary or Contradictory Concepts? (2022-2023)
  • British Academy/AHRC/ESRC Visiting Fellowships Sponsor (2009)

Appointments and awards

  • Member of the Steering Committee for the AHRC funded Feminist Translation Network.
  • Honorary Research Fellow, University of Warwick (2021-2024)
  • IATIS Solidarity & Scientific Excellence conference bursary (2021)
  • Elected Member of Executive Council of IATIS
  • Member of the Peer College for the Martha Cheung Award 
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Approaches to Translation Studies, Brill
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the journal InTRAlinea 
Tags: sustainability, corpus linguistics, corpora, translation; knowledge

Publications

  • Saldanha, Gabriela (2024). Medicines as subjects: a corpus-based exploration of subjectification in antimicrobial resistance policy. Corpus-based Studies Across the Humanities. ISSN 2940-1445. doi: 10.1515/csh-2023-0013. Full text in Research Archive
  • Viva, Gabriela Saldanha (2023). Positions in Research Methodology. In Marais, Kobus & Meylaerts, Reine (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Translation Theory and Concepts. Routledge. ISSN 9781003161448. p. 51–74. doi: 10.4324/9781003161448-5. Full text in Research Archive
  • Saldanha, Gabriela (2022). From voice to performance: The artistic agency of literary translators. In Baker, Mona (Eds.), Unsettling Translation. Routledge. ISSN 9780367681968. p. 97–111. Full text in Research Archive
  • Saldanha, Gabriela (2021). The translator: Literary or Performance artist? Translation and Interpreting Studies. ISSN 1932-2798. 16(1), p. 61–79. doi: 10.1075/tis.19067.sal. Full text in Research Archive
  • Saldanha, Gabriela (2018). Literary tourism: Brazilian Literature through Anglophone Lenses. Translation Studies. ISSN 1478-1700. 11(3), p. 245–260. doi: 10.1080/14781700.2018.1434086. Full text in Research Archive
  • Zanettin, Federico; Saldanha, Gabriela & Harding, Sue-Ann (2015). Sketching Landscapes in Translation Studies: a bibliographic study. Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice. ISSN 0907-676X. 23(2), p. 161–182. doi: 10.1080/0907676X.2015.1010551. Full text in Research Archive
  • Kershaw, Angela & Saldanha, Gabriela (2013). Introduction: Global Landscapes of Translation. Translation Studies. ISSN 1478-1700. 6(2), p. 135–149. doi: 10.1080/14781700.2013.777257. Full text in Research Archive
  • Saldanha, Gabriela (2011). Translator Style: Methodological considerations. Translator. ISSN 1355-6509. 17(1), p. 25–50. doi: 10.1080/13556509.2011.10799478. Full text in Research Archive
  • Saldanha, Gabriela (2011). Emphatic italics in English translations: stylistic failure or motivated stylistic resources? Meta : Journal des traducteurs. ISSN 0026-0452. 56(2), p. 424–442. doi: 10.7202/1006185ar. Full text in Research Archive
  • Saldanha, Gabriela (2009). Principles of corpus linguistics and their application to translation studies research. Tradumàtica. ISSN 1578-7559. 7. Full text in Research Archive
  • Saldanha, Gabriela (2008). Explicitation revisited: bringing the reader into the picture. trans-kom, Zeitschrift für Translationswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation. 1(1), p. 20–35. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ranyard, Rob; Routh, David A.; Burgoyne, Carole B. & Saldanha, Gabriela (2007). A Qualitative Study of Adaptation to the Euro in the Republic of Ireland - Part II: Errors, Strategies, and Making Sense of the New Currency’. European Psychologist. ISSN 1016-9040. 2(12), p. 139–146. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ranyard, Rob; Burgoyne, Carole B.; Saldanha, Gabriela & Routh, David A. (2005). A Qualitative Study of Adaptation to the Euro in the Republic of Ireland: I. Attitudes, the ‘Euro Illusion’ and the Perception of Prices. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. ISSN 1052-9284. 15, p. 95–107. Full text in Research Archive
  • Saldanha, Gabriela (2004). Accounting for the Exception to the Norm: a Study of Split Infinitives in Translated English. Language Matters. ISSN 1022-8195. 35(1), p. 39–53. Full text in Research Archive
  • Saldanha, Gabriela (2003). Studying Gender-Related Linguistic Features in Translated Language. In Santaemilia, J. (Eds.), Género, lenguaje y traducción. Publicacions de la Universitat de València. ISSN 9788437057309. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Saldanha, Gabriela (2017). Response to Angela Kershaw’s “Distant Stories, Belated Memories - Irène Némirovsky and Elisabeth Gille”. In Boase-Beier, Jean; Davies, Peter; Hammel, Andrea & Winters, Marion (Ed.), Translating Holocaust Lives. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISSN 9781474250283. p. 2017–219. doi: 10.5040/9781474250313.ch-017. Full text in Research Archive
  • Connelly, Heather & Viva, Gabriela Saldanha (2017). Linguistic Hospitality. Full text in Research Archive
  • Connelly, Heather & Viva, Gabriela Saldanha (2017). Escurrir. Full text in Research Archive
  • Connelly, Heather & Viva, Gabriela Saldanha (2016). This is me. Full text in Research Archive
  • Saldanha, Gabriela (2014). Style in, and of, translation. In Berman, Sandra & Porter, Catherine (Ed.), A Companion to Translation Studies. Wiley-Blackwell. ISSN 9781118616154. p. 95–106. Full text in Research Archive
  • Saldanha, Gabriela (2011). Style of Translation: The Use of Foreign Words in Translations by Margaret Jull Costa and Peter Bush. In Kruger, Alet; Wallmach, Kim & Munday, Jeremy (Ed.), Corpus-based Translation Studies: Research and Applications. Continuum. ISSN 9781441115812. p. 237–258. Full text in Research Archive
  • Saldanha, Gabriela (2009). Linguistic Approaches. In Baker, Mona & Saldanha, Gabriela (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, Second edition.. Routledge. ISSN 9780415369305. p. 148–152. Full text in Research Archive

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