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Department of French

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Raymond Mopoho

Associate Professor; Chair

RaymondMopoho
Department of French , Department of International Development Studies

Email: rmopoho@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-2018
Mailing Address: 
Room 1106, Marion McCain, 6135 University Avenue
PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Lexicology and terminology
  • French language
  • Literature and culture of Francophone minorities outside of Quebec
  • Translation

Office Hours

Monday and Wednesday, 8:30-10:00 a.m., or by appointment <raymond.mopoho@dal.ca>

Education

  • BA (Yaounde, Cameroun)
  • MA, PhD (Montreal)

Biography

Professor Mopoho鈥檚 research interests include translation and interpretation, terminology, language policy and planning, pidginization and creolization. The main focus of this work is multilingual and intercultural communication, the analysis and management of multilingual settings, and word creation processes in specific fields.

Selected Awards

  • SSRHC Standard Research Grant (Professional Interpreters in Colonial Africal)

Services and Activity

  • Corresponding member and Reviewer for Meta.
  • SSHRC Standard Research Grant / Insight Grant Adjudication Committee (2010-...)
  • Assessor, Governor General鈥檚 Prize in French Translation
  • President, Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association (2011-...)
  • President, Association pour l鈥檃ide 脿 l鈥櫭ヾucation et au d茅veloppement (AEED) (2011-...)
  • Translation Consultant for The World Bank, The African Development Bank, The Inter-American Development Bank and the Inter-American Investment Corporation

Selected Publications

---2005.Perception et autoportrait de l'interpr猫te indig猫ne en Afrique coloniale fran莽aise. Linguistica Antverpiensa 4/5-2005, pp. 77-92.
---2003.What Model for Language Planning in Education and Development? The Journal of African Policy Studies, Vol. 9, Numbers 2 & 3, pp. 15-25.
---2000."Statut officiel de l'interpr猫te dans l'administration coloniale en Afrique fran莽aise." Meta 46(2). 
---1998."Vernacularisation et traduction des textes pragmatiques en Afrique." TTR Vol. X (1). Pp.245-261. (1998).
---"Emprunt et cr茅ativit茅 lexicale dans le discours de l'Internet fran莽ais." Actes de langue et de linguistique. Vol. 9. Pp.123-132. (1997).