User:Elisabeth Cottier Fábián
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Elisabeth COTTIER-FÁBIÁN (Paris, France)
Birthday: 08/06/1956
Languages - Linguistics - Hungarian literature - Philosophy - Contemporary figurative painting - Translation -
A specialist in Hungarian linguistics and literature, I've been teaching general linguistics, English linguistics, and contrastive linguistics & translation, as Senior Lecturer at Paris University, for over 15 years now (since 1989) -and before that, as Lecturer in Montpellier's 'Université Paul-Valéry', where I taught General Linguistics for 7 years (1982-1989).
My interests are varied, but in my research work these last 15 years I've mostly been publishing articles on Hungarian linguistics, literature, and culture/history.
Raised in three different languages, I am interested, not only in Hungarian, but in several other languages, as well (those, however, I don't speak fluently); and have come to deal more closely with several languages of Central Europe (South Slavic, mostly). I have also studied Russian for several years (though my knowledge of it is now rusty...); and, more recently, a little Finnish.
Among my other fields, both in interest and qualification, are:
- philosophy (mostly Spinoza ; Husserl ; Kierkegaard) - some 20th Century English poets: namely, Philip Larkin (my best choice); also, John Betjeman ; Robert Lowell - world literature (I'm perfectly fluent in 4 languages) - biology and medical science - contemporary figurative painting, derived from the French Impressionist school (20th Century Californian impressionists; Scandinavian Impressionism from the early 20th Century...) - cinema : I'm a great admirer of Danish film-maker Carl Dreyer, and of several Russian film-makers (including Eisenstein). I greatly like Ernst Lubitsch.
I have published translations from Hungarian (mostly into French): poems, short stories, and one novel by Milán Füst (Advent).
Hungarian is the language we speak and read at home, with my 3 young sons (born in 1996, 1997 and 2000). We try to keep Hungarian traditions alive: celebrating certain 'cultural/historical' days, but also, keeping our family's Hungarian namedays (Bálint, András, Béla)...
I am open to any reviews dealing with Hungarian matters; language learning in general; and philosophy.
