The article contains the memoirs about Aleksander Davidovich
Shveitser (1923–2002), a distinguished Soviet and Russian interpreter and language
theorist. The article is written by his postgraduate student and now the Candidate of
Philology, Research Fellow of the Department of Linguistics at Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION RAN)
E.A. Kazak.
Keywords
A.D. Shveitser; linguistics; translation studies; sociolinguistics; national language variation; contrastive stylistics.
