Speaking Climate: How Translators Make Environmental Language Work

Sara Orthaber is a lecturer at the Department of Translation Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor. She holds a PhD from the University of Surrey, where she also completed her Master of Arts (MA) degree. She earned her undergraduate degree in Translation Studies from the University of Graz at the Department of Translation Studies. Her research focuses on interactional pragmatics, (im)politeness, spoken and written discourse analysis, computer-mediated communication, and intercultural communication. She has (co-)authored articles in leading journals such as the Journal of Pragmatics, Internet Pragmatics, and Sociolinguistic Studies, and published a monograph titled (Im)politeness at a Slovenian Call Centre: A Cross-Media Examination with Springer Nature.

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: sara.orthaber@um.si

Aleksandra Nuč Blažič is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Translation Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia. Since 2009, she has also been collaborating with the Institute of Translation Studies at the University of Graz as external teaching staff for conference interpreting. Her research primarily focuses on translation history, translation policy and culture, conference interpreting, and community interpreting. She has been an accredited freelance interpreter for EU institutions since 2005 and a member of AIIC since 2016. She has worked on projects such as ReTrans (Working with Interpreters in Refugee Transit Zones), an EU-funded Erasmus+ initiative that develops digital training materials to raise awareness for interpreting in humanitarian and transborder migration contexts.

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: aleksandra.nuc@um.si