Viktor Becher has studied Applied Linguistics, English and Phonetics in Hamburg (“Magister Artium”). He is currently working on the project “Covert Translation” funded by the German Research Foundation and located at the Special Research Center on Multilingualism of the University of Hamburg. The project is mainly concerned with cross-cultural differences between the English and German language communities and with how English patterns of language use influence the German language.

Mr. Becher’s current work centers on translation and translatability as well as constrastive linguistics. He has presented his work at a number of academic conferences all around the world and has just finished his very first publications, which are to appear in various international journals on general linguistics and translation studies. He expects to receive his PhD in 2011.