Terminology, LSP and Translation
Studies in language engineering in honour of Juan C. Sager
1st Edition
Published on 19. December 1996
XII, 250 pages
978-90-272-8355-9 (ISBN)
Description
A state-of-the-art volume highlighting the links between lexicography, terminology, language for special purposes (LSP) and translation and Machine Translation, that constitute the domain of Language Engineering.
Part I: Terminology and Lexicography. Takes us through terminological problems and solutions in Europe, the former Soviet Union and Egypt.
Part II focuses on LSP for second language learners and lexical analysis.
Part III treats translator training in a historical context, as well as new methods from cognitive and corpus linguistics.
Part IV is about the application of language engineering in Machine Translation, corpus linguistics and multilingual text generation.
Part I: Terminology and Lexicography. Takes us through terminological problems and solutions in Europe, the former Soviet Union and Egypt.
Part II focuses on LSP for second language learners and lexical analysis.
Part III treats translator training in a historical context, as well as new methods from cognitive and corpus linguistics.
Part IV is about the application of language engineering in Machine Translation, corpus linguistics and multilingual text generation.
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- TERMINOLOGY, LSP AND TRANSLATION STUDIES IN LANGUAGE ENGINEERING IN HONOUR OF JUAN C. SAGER
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Juan C. Sager - Biographical Notes
- Bibliography
- I. TERMINOLOGY
- Terminology today
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Conceptualizations of Terminology
- 4. Applications
- 5. Terminology in Spain
- Bibliography
- Which terms should firms or organisationsinclude in their terminology banks?The case of the Canton of Berne
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The terminological needs of the Canton of Berne
- 3. The applications available to translators employed by the Canton of Berne
- 4. What is a Bernese term?
- 5. Types of terms: Criteria for inclusion in the terminology bank of the Canton of Berne
- 6. Where are these Bernese terms to be found?
- 7. The deposit programme of the terminology bank of the Canton of Berne
- 8. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- The reorientation of management language in Russia and Poland in the transition to the market economy: A neglected perspective
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The language of management
- 3. Russia: The sociolinguistic context
- 4. Absence of general management terminology
- 5. Construction management terminology
- 6. Language deficiency and management learning in Russia
- 7. Poland in transition: A short sociolinguistic commentary
- 8. Concluding discussion
- Bibliography
- Quality assurance of terminology available on the international computer networks
- 1. Abstract
- 2. Introduction
- 3. The treatment of terminology
- 4. Quality assurance of terminology available through the international computer networks
- 5. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Les onomastiques égyptiens au temps des pharaons
- 1. L'écriture égyptienne
- 2. Les "sebayets
- 3. Leschoses et les mots
- 4. Classification des listes lexicales
- 5. Vers la glossographie
- Bibliography
- Summary
- Beyond terminology
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Terminology as a political activity
- 3. Translation and "special languages
- 4. Translatability
- 5. Conclusion
- II. LSP
- Language description and LSP teaching
- 1. Remarks on the description of language for special purposes
- 2. On the development of special language reading courses
- 3. Problems of developing special language teaching material for translators
- 4. Perspectives
- Bibliography
- Lexical cartography" in LSP texts
- 1. Introduction
- 2. How to acquire the language of a DC
- 3. An exercise in lexical cartography
- 4. Identification of multi-word segments
- Bibliography
- III. TRANSLATION
- Enseignement de la traduction: plaidoyer en faveur d'un code de correction
- 1. L'enseignement de la traduction jadis
- 2. Non sens, contresens et faux-sens
- 3. La notion d'erreur
- 4. Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Summary
- Translation as intelligent behaviour
- 1. Introduction
- 2. What is 'translator intelligence'?
- 3. Translator competence
- 4. Common sense and other 'high-level cognitive operations'
- 5. Translation creativity
- 6. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- The vital role of the generalist in technical translation from and into 'minor' languages
- Corpus-based translation studies: The challenges that lie ahead
- Introduction
- 2. Investigating translation as a phenomenon: Some initial challenges
- 3. Locating universal features in a translation corpus
- 4. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- IV. LANGUAGE ENGINEERING
- On the notion of validity and the evaluation of MT systems
- 1. Background
- 2. Measurement and validity
- 3. Evaluation of MT
- 4. User-oriented evaluation
- 5. Why does any of this matter?
- Bibliography
- Senses and texts
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Recent experiments in sense-tagging
- 3. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Automatic text generation for software development and use
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Multilingual document production: Established practices
- 3. Limitations of established practices
- 4. Emerging trends
- 5. Producing multilingual documentation from messages
- 6. DRAFTER
- 7. Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
