Author: Hortensia Pârlog

Loredana Frăţilă is Senior Lecturer in English, at the University of the West, Timişoara, Romania. Her domains of expertise are English lexicology, English phonetics and phonology, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, ESP and translation studies. She is the author of The English Verb Made Easy (Timişoara: Art Press, 2003); On Language and Ecology (Timişoara: Editura Universităţii de Vest, 2006); English for Students of Kinetotherapy (Timişoara: Art Press, 2007; co-author Carmen Nedelea); English for Sports and Games (Timişoara: Editura Universităţii de Vest, 2010; co-author Carmen Nedelea). Loredana Frăţilă is editor of The Art and Craft of Translation (Timişoara: Editura Universităţii de Vest, 2009), to which she has also contributed a chapter.Hortensia Pârlog is Professor of English language at the University of the West, Timişoara, Romania. Her previous publications include The Sounds of English and Romanian (Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii, 1984; co-authors Dumitru Chiţoran and James Augerot); Ghid de pronunţie a limbii engleze (Bucureşti: Editura Ştiintifică şi Enciclopedică, 1989; co-author Dumitru Chiţoran); The Sound of Sounds (Timişoara, Editura Hestia, 1995); Dicţionar englez-român de colocaţii verbale (Iaşi: Editura Polirom, 2000; edited by Hortensia Pârlog and Maria Teleagă); Translating the Body (München: Lincom, 2007 and Iaşi: Institutul European, 2009—the latter being a revised edition; co-authors Pia Brînzeu and Aba-Carina Pârlog).