{"id":31,"date":"2013-09-06T18:19:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T18:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2013-10-18T09:28:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T09:28:28","slug":"mark-lencho","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/","title":{"rendered":"Introductions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_114\" style=\"width: 258px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/files\/2013\/09\/uww2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114\" alt=\"Crossing the campus mall at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/files\/2013\/09\/uww2013.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crossing the campus mall at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, I am on\u00a0sabbatical from my home university while I\u00a0teach during part of the Fall 2013 semester at the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra Slovakia. I teach courses in writing, linguistics, and literature.\u00a0 In Slovakia, I am teaching a course in <a title=\"Course Schedule\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/course-schedule\/\">General Linguistics<\/a> and in the <a title=\"Course Schedule\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/course-schedule\/\">Pragmatics of Translation<\/a>.\u00a0 My primary research interests concern cultural, aesthetic, and linguistic relationships between Slovak and English.\u00a0 You may wish\u00a0to view\u00a0my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/files\/2013\/09\/vita_mwl.pdf\">vita<\/a>\u00a0in order to get a more specific sense of my scholarly activity.\u00a0\u00a0 During my Fulbright year in Slovakia (2006-7), I blogged on some <a title=\"social\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sociolinguistics\/\" target=\"_blank\">social<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lexicalsemantics\" target=\"_blank\">structural<\/a> characteristics of language, which are especially evident when different languages rub edges, and invited students to contribute in building a\u00a0site called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.uww.edu\/class\/LanguageandSociety\">Pre\u010do m\u00e1m r\u00e1d sloven\u010dinu<\/a>\u00a0 in order to explore further how English and Slovak are differently contextualized.\u00a0 Now I wish to extend the discussion to address issues in <a title=\"The Act of Translating\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/2013\/09\/10\/the-act-of-translating\/\" target=\"_blank\">literary translation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=university+of+wisconsin+whitewater+images&amp;espv=210&amp;es_sm=93&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=w_lgUvGzIsGXtAaaqoEo&amp;ved=0CC0QsAQ&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=643&amp;dpr=1#facrc=_&amp;imgdii=_&amp;imgrc=EWjsS8TI0nTqnM%3A%3B0n-fLe7WmzU5sM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fmatthewlpowers.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2013%252F08%252Fuww.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fmatthewlpowers.com%252Fresume%252F%3B2038%3B372\">University of Wisconsin-Whitewater<\/a>, I work in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lpXq0OipihQ\">Laurentide Hall<\/a>, a newly renovated building constructed with energy efficiency in mind.<\/p>\n<p>My family consists of my wife, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrsunitedstates.com\/history_states.asp?year=2004\">Elizabeth<\/a>, my daughter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KipecqpHAZY\">\u017eofia<\/a>, and my sons, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xd2oinn_BKo\">Kyle<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.burgundytiesband.com\/photos\/\">Peyton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/files\/2013\/09\/DSCN0048.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/files\/2013\/09\/DSCN0048-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/files\/2013\/09\/DSCN0048-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/files\/2013\/09\/DSCN0048-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/files\/2013\/09\/DSCN0048-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, I am on\u00a0sabbatical from my home university while I\u00a0teach during part of the Fall 2013 semester at the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}