The Linguist is the official bimonthly journal of the British Chartered Institute of Linguists

Chartered Institute of Linguists

The Chartered Institute of Linguists, also known as the Institute of Linguists, IOL and IoL , is a British professional and learned society for education that was founded in 1910. It serves to promote proficiency in modern languages worldwide...

. Apart from news of the Institute and Fellows it publishes articles on translation

Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...

 and interpreting, bilingualism

Multilingualism

Multilingualism is the act of using, or promoting the use of, multiple languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers. Multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. Multilingualism is becoming a social phenomenon governed by the needs of...

 and language use, alongside book reviews and current opinions. The editor is Miranda Moore. Regular contributors include Peter Newmark

Peter Newmark

Peter Newmark , was an English professor of translation at the University of Surrey.-Biography:He was one of the main figures in the founding of Translation Studies in the English-speaking world from the 1980s...

, whose wide-ranging column is entitled "Translation Now", and Andrew Dalby

Andrew Dalby

Andrew Dalby is an English linguist, translator and historian who has written articles and several books on a wide range of topics including food history, language, Classical texts, and Wikipedia.-Education and early career:...

with "Notes in the Margin".

External links

• Institute website
• The Linguist online issue