Scientific and Technical Translation
1st Edition
Published on 7. October 1993
VIII, 298 pages
978-90-272-8582-9 (ISBN)
Description
Technical translation (and technical terminology) encompasses the translation of special language texts. 1. Style and Register covers clarity of style, culture-specific and author-reader conventions and expectation. 2. Special Applications deals with the contribution of translation to the dissemination of science. 3. Training and Autodidactic Approaches for Technical Translators: translators must master a broad range of frequently unanticipated topics, as well as linguistic competence. 4. Text Analysis and Text Typology as Tools for Technical Translators focuses attention on text typology and SGML in human translation and CAT. 5. Translation-Oriented Terminology Activities explores the different aspects of terminology: knowledge management, language planning, terminology resources and representation of concept systems.
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- Scientific and Technical Translation
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Editors' Preface: Technical Translation and the American Translator
- REFERENCE
- Acknowledgement:
- Section 1: Style and Register in Technical Translation
- Technical Translation Style: Clarity, Concision, Correctness
- Types of Translation and the Myth of Literality
- Clarity
- Concision
- Correctness
- Final Remarks
- NOTE
- REFERENCES
- Contrastive Scientific and Technical Register as a Translation Problem
- Introduction
- Scientific and Technical (ST) Register
- Discourse Phenomena as Expressions of Culture-Specific Author-Reader Conventions
- Describing Contrastive ST Register: Information Dynamics and Information Packaging
- INFORMATION DYNAMICS
- Title Conventions
- Initiating Information
- Information Sequencing
- INFORMATION PACKAGING
- The Translation Dimension
- BASIC DECISIONS
- Translation Examples of ST Discourse Phenomena
- INFORMATION DYNAMICS
- Title conventions
- Initiating Information
- Information Sequencing
- INFORMATION PACKAGING
- Use of Examples
- Personalizing a Message
- Redundancies
- Explicitness of Reference
- Terminological Co-Reference
- Varying Degrees of Discourse "Formality
- Concluding Remarks
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- The Challenges of Simplicity and Complexity: German-English Modes and Interrelationships
- Introduction
- Simple Basics
- More Basics: Straightforward, "Linear" Clause
- Tied Up in "Not"s
- Quantities and Capacities
- Combinations, Averages, Proportions
- Categories: Separate and Equal
- Identical Differences
- Clauses, Demonstratives-and Breakdowns
- Centrifugal Motion and Miracles
- The Inappropriateness of the Merely Correct: Stylistic Considerations in Scientific and Technical Translation
- The Relevance of Style to Technical Translation
- Text Types Requiring Careful Stylistic Modeling
- Stylistic Levels
- Situation and Macrocontext
- Situational and Macrostructural Heterovalence
- Interaction of the Terminological Unit at the Microcontextual Level
- MICROCONTEXT
- TERMINOLOGICAL UNITS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Summary
- Section 2: Special Applications
- Translation, the Great Pollinator of Science: A Brief Flashback on Medical Translation
- Introduction
- Role of Translation in the Dissemination of Science
- Full Impact of Translation on Science Not Felt Until 100 Years Ago
- Why Medicine Was the Earliest Scientific Field to Thrive on Translation
- UNIVERSALITY OF SUBJECT
- LEXICAL EQUIVALENCES
- WIDESPREAD ACCESSIBILITY OF DOCUMENTATION
- Flashbacks to the Translator's Role in the Transfer of Medical Knowledge
- IN GREECE
- IN ROME
- IN THE WORLD OF ISLAM
- IN THE MIDDLE AGES
- Conclusion
- REFERENCES
- Translating for the Small World
- REFERENCES
- Patent Claim Translation
- Introduction
- Claim Translation Fundamentals
- Details of Claim Translation
- Conclusion
- NOTES
- Section 3: Training and Autodidactic Approaches for Technical Translators
- Linguistic and Technical Preparation in the Training of Technical Translators and Interpreters
- Linguists or Technicians?
- A Short History of Approaches
- STARTING WITH LANGUAGES
- STARTING WITH TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE
- TEACHING LANGUAGES FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES
- TEACHING CULTURAL SENSITIVITY
- RECOGNIZING INDIVIDUAL ABILITIES AND PERSONALITY VARIABLES
- Small Scale Research
- PH.D. CANDIDATES IN HONOLULU
- Subjects
- Procedure
- Results
- Subjects
- Procedure
- Results
- FL STUDENTS AND TECHNICIANS IN POLAND
- Long-Term Research
- Subjects
- Pre-Test
- TEACHING METHODOLOGY
- POST-EXPERIMENTAL TEST
- Translation
- Evaluation
- Results
- INTERPRETING
- Texts
- Procedure
- Evaluation
- Results
- Conclusions
- SMALL-SCALE RESEARCH
- IMPLICATIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH
- LONG-TERM RESEARCH
- NOTE
- REFERENCES
- QUESTIONNAIRE
- Toward an Expanded Pedagogy of Specialized Translation
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Retooling" as an Adaptive Skill for Translators
- Becoming (an) Expert
- A Short Course in Welding
- Identifying the Topic
- Making a First Stab
- Preparing a Campaign Plan
- The Research Crunch
- Evaluating the Finished Work
- Wrapping Up
- REFERENCES
- Section 4: Text Analysis and Text Typology as Tools for Technical Translators
- Text Typology and Translation-Oriented Text Analysis
- Translation-Specific Text Typology and Text Analysis
- TOWARD A TEXT TYPOLOGY
- TRANSFACTUAL TEXTS
- TRANSBEHAVIORAL TEXTS
- TEXT TYPE-DEPENDENT STRUCTURES
- Typology-Based Text Analysis
- FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONAL AIM
- TRANSLATION OBJECTIVE
- AIM IDENTIFICATION AND TYPICALITY
- Outlook
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and Heuristic Textual Resources in Translation-Oriented Databases
- The Structure of Translation-Oriented Databases
- The Target Text as a Locus of Intertextuality
- Taxonomy of Textual Elements in the Knowledgebase
- SGML and the Inclusion of Textual Elements in Knowledgebases
- Sample Texts Prepared as Heuristic Texts for Inclusion in a Text Knowledgebase
- Caveats and Conclusions
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Section 5: Translation-Oriented Terminology Activities
- New Trends in Translation-Oriented Terminology Management
- Introduction
- Development of Translation-Oriented Terminology Management
- Trends in Translation and Terminology Work
- Outlook
- REFERENCES
- Bibliography of Polish Terminology Resources
- Introduction
- Bibliography
- Subject Guide to Authors
- Selected Elements from a Theory of Fractal Linguistics: Possible Implications for Machine Translation, Terminology Management, and Other NLP Applications
- Apologia, Premise and Methodology
- Visualization Exercises
- THE GROSS GLOSS THEORY OF LABEL LINGUISTICS
- THE ZEISS LEVEL OF VISUALIZATION
- RECOGNITION OF THE LEXIVERSE
- OTHER THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS
- The Question of Linguistic Space
- THE FRACTAL DIMENSION
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Translators and Interpreters as Adopters and Agents of Diffusion of Planned Lexical Innovations: The Francophone Case
- Introduction
- The Surveys
- Conclusion
- REFERENCES
- Contributors
- ATA Corporate Members
- ATA Institutional Members
- American Translators Association Officers and Board of Directors, 1993
- Subject Index
- Author Index
- The series American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series
