Scientific And Technical Translation Explained

Author : Jody Byrne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317642039

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Scientific and Technical Translation Explained by Jody Byrne Pdf

From microbiology to nuclear physics and chemistry to software engineering, scientific and technical translation is a complex activity that involves communicating specialized information on a variety of subjects across multiple languages. It requires expert linguistic knowledge and writing skills, combined with the ability to research and understand complex concepts and present them to a range of different audiences. Using a combination of interdisciplinary research, real-world examples drawn from professional practice and numerous learning activities, this introductory textbook equips the student with the knowledge and skills needed to get started in this exciting and challenging field. It examines the origins and history of scientific and technical translation, and the people, tools and processes involved in translating scientific and technical texts. Scientific and Technical Translation Explained provides an overview of the main features of scientific and technical discourse as well as the different types of documents produced. A series of detailed case studies highlight various translation challenges and introduce a range of strategies for dealing with them. A variety of resources and exercises are included to make learning effective and enjoyable. Additional resources and activities are available on Facebook.

Author : Maeve Olohan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317394679

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Scientific and Technical Translation by Maeve Olohan Pdf

Routledge Translation Guides cover the key translation text types and genres and equip translators and students of translation with the skills needed to translate them. Concise, accessible and written by leading authorities, they include examples from existing translations, activities, further reading suggestions and a glossary of key terms. Scientific and Technical Translation focuses on texts that are typically translated in scientific and technical domains, such as technical instructions, data sheets and brochures, patents, scientific research articles and abstracts, popular science press releases and news reports. In seven chapters, this practical textbook: Introduces readers to the typical contexts in which scientific and technical translators work; Shows how corpus resources can be used for terminological and phraseological research; Considers how translation technologies are employed in technical and scientific translation; Explains a range of technical and scientific genres and their translation. Including a wide range of relevant tasks and activities, examples from the most commonly taught language pairs and a glossary of key terms, this is the essential textbook for modules on scientific and technical translation and specialised translation.

Author : Sue Ellen Wright,Leland D. Wright
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789027231819

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Scientific and Technical Translation by Sue Ellen Wright,Leland D. Wright Pdf

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.

Author : Jody Byrne
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402046537

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Technical Translation by Jody Byrne Pdf

This introduction to technical translation and usability draws on a broad range of research and makes the topic both accessible and applicable to those involved in the practice and study of translation. Readers learn how to improve and assess the quality of technical translations using cognitive psychology, usability engineering and technical communication. A practical usability study illustrates the theories, methods and benefits of usability engineering.

Author : James Brian Alexander Mitchell,Anca Irina Florescu-mitchell
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811241574

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Practical Guide To Scientific And Technical Translation, A: Publishing, Style And Terminology by James Brian Alexander Mitchell,Anca Irina Florescu-mitchell Pdf

Are you a non-native English speaker? Are you often confronted with manuscript rejections because of poor language impeding comprehension of your paper? A Practical Guide to Scientific and Technical Translation is your solution. In this one-stop guide, two authors with extensive experience as reviewers and translators in a vast medley of scientific fields assist you to produce professional quality documents, whether through direct authoring in a language foreign to you or translation from an existing text. The book is not intended as a text on English grammar but as a troubleshooting guide to linguistic and style errors. We will help you overcome at least the most common problems here. Technical terminology searching and choice will also be covered with examples from a number of scientific (physics, chemistry) and engineering disciplines (aviation, transport, nuclear, environment, etc.), with advice on how to choose the right term for the right job. While the emphasis is on producing documents in English (the lingua franca of modern scientific literature), general translation concepts are also discussed. Hence, this book will also be useful to translators, and scientists who need to present their work in languages other than English.

Author : Rolf Gaser,Cristina Guirado,Joëlle Rey,Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Science
ISBN : 844770890X

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Insights Into Scientific and Technical Translation by Rolf Gaser,Cristina Guirado,Joëlle Rey,Universitat Pompeu Fabra Pdf

Author : Maeve Olohan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317394686

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Scientific and Technical Translation by Maeve Olohan Pdf

Routledge Translation Guides cover the key translation text types and genres and equip translators and students of translation with the skills needed to translate them. Concise, accessible and written by leading authorities, they include examples from existing translations, activities, further reading suggestions and a glossary of key terms. Scientific and Technical Translation focuses on texts that are typically translated in scientific and technical domains, such as technical instructions, data sheets and brochures, patents, scientific research articles and abstracts, popular science press releases and news reports. In seven chapters, this practical textbook: Introduces readers to the typical contexts in which scientific and technical translators work; Shows how corpus resources can be used for terminological and phraseological research; Considers how translation technologies are employed in technical and scientific translation; Explains a range of technical and scientific genres and their translation. Including a wide range of relevant tasks and activities, examples from the most commonly taught language pairs and a glossary of key terms, this is the essential textbook for modules on scientific and technical translation and specialised translation.

Author : Jody Byrne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317642046

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Scientific and Technical Translation Explained by Jody Byrne Pdf

From microbiology to nuclear physics and chemistry to software engineering, scientific and technical translation is a complex activity that involves communicating specialized information on a variety of subjects across multiple languages. It requires expert linguistic knowledge and writing skills, combined with the ability to research and understand complex concepts and present them to a range of different audiences. Using a combination of interdisciplinary research, real-world examples drawn from professional practice and numerous learning activities, this introductory textbook equips the student with the knowledge and skills needed to get started in this exciting and challenging field. It examines the origins and history of scientific and technical translation, and the people, tools and processes involved in translating scientific and technical texts. Scientific and Technical Translation Explained provides an overview of the main features of scientific and technical discourse as well as the different types of documents produced. A series of detailed case studies highlight various translation challenges and introduce a range of strategies for dealing with them. A variety of resources and exercises are included to make learning effective and enjoyable. Additional resources and activities are available on Facebook.

Author : Isadore Pinchuck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Science
ISBN : 0891587373

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Scientific and Technical Translation by Isadore Pinchuck Pdf

Author : Vicent Montalt,Maria González-Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317641988

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Medical Translation Step by Step by Vicent Montalt,Maria González-Davies Pdf

Statistics on the translation market consistently identify medicine as a major thematic area as far as volume or translation is concerned. Vicent Montalt and Maria Gonzalez Davis, both experienced translator trainers at Spanish universities, explain the basics of medical translation and ways of teaching and learning how to translate medical texts. Medical Translation Step by Step provides a pedagogical approach to medical translation based on learner and learning-centred teaching tasks, revolving around interaction: pair and group work to carry out the tasks and exercises to practice the points covered. These include work on declarative and operative knowledge of both translation and medical texts and favour an approach that takes into account both the process and product of translations. Starting from a broad communication framework, the book follows a top-down approach to medical translation: communication → genres → texts → terms and other units of specialized knowledge. It is positively focused in that it does not insist on error analysis, but rather on ways of writing good translations and empowering both students and teachers. The text can be used as a course book for students in face-to-face learning, but also in distance and mixed learning situations. It will also be useful for teachers as a resource book, or a core book to be complemented with other materials.

Author : Eugene A. Nida
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004495746

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Toward a Science of Translating by Eugene A. Nida Pdf

Toward a Science of Translating, first published in 1964, is still very much in demand today. Written by a linguist and anthropologist with forty years of experience in the field of language and religion, this work describes the major components of translating; setting the translating into the context of historical changes in principles and procedures over the last two centuries. With an emphasis on texts being understood within their cultural contexts, one of the reasons for its continuing relevance is the broad number of illustrative examples taken from field experience of translators in America, Africa, Europe and Asia.

Author : Michèle Goyens,Pieter de Leemans,An Smets
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789058676719

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Science Translated by Michèle Goyens,Pieter de Leemans,An Smets Pdf

Mediaevalia Lovaniensia 40Medieval translators played an important role in the development and evolution of a scientific lexicon. At a time when most scholars deferred to authority, the translations of canonical texts assumed great importance. Moreover, translation occurred at two levels in the Middle Ages. First, Greek or Arabic texts were translated into the learned language, Latin. Second, Latin texts became source texts themselves, to be translated into the vernaculars as their importance across Europe started to increase.The situation of the respective translators at these two levels was fundamentally different: whereas the former could rely on a long tradition of scientific discourse, the latter had the enormous responsibility of actually developing a scientific vocabulary. The contributions in the present volume investigate both levels, greatly illuminating the emergence of the scientific terminology and concepts that became so fundamental in early modern intellectual discourse. The scientific disciplines covered in the book include, among others, medicine, biology, astronomy, and physics.

Author : Michael Hann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588114848

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A Basis for Scientific and Engineering Translation by Michael Hann Pdf

This e-book (on CD-rom) and the accompanying handbook attack many of the most crucial difficulties encountered by both native and non-native English speakers when translating scientific and engineering material from German.The e-book is like a miniature encyclopaedia dealing with the fundamental conceptual basis of science, engineering and mathematics, with particular regard to "terminology." It provides didactically organised dictionaries, thesauri and a wide range of microglossaries highlighting "polysemy, homonymy, hyponymy, context, collocation, usage" as well as grammatical, lexical and semantic considerations essential to accurate translation. It also supplies a wide variety of "reference material" and "illustrations" useful to self-taught professional technical translators, translator trainers at universities, and especially to student translators.All the main branches of industrial technology are examined, such as "mechanical, electrical, electronic, chemical, nuclear engineering, " and fundamental terminologies are provided for a broad range of important subfields: "automotive engineering, plastics, computer systems, construction technology, aircraft, machine tools."The handbook provides a useful introduction to the e-book, enabling readers proficient in two languages to acquire the basic skills necessary for technical translation by familiarity with fundamental engineering conceptions themselves.

Author : Anthony Pym
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317934318

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Exploring Translation Theories by Anthony Pym Pdf

Exploring Translation Theories presents a comprehensive analysis of the core contemporary paradigms of Western translation theory. The book covers theories of equivalence, purpose, description, uncertainty, localization, and cultural translation. This second edition adds coverage on new translation technologies, volunteer translators, non-lineal logic, mediation, Asian languages, and research on translators’ cognitive processes. Readers are encouraged to explore the various theories and consider their strengths, weaknesses, and implications for translation practice. The book concludes with a survey of the way translation is used as a model in postmodern cultural studies and sociologies, extending its scope beyond traditional Western notions. Features in each chapter include: An introduction outlining the main points, key concepts and illustrative examples. Examples drawn from a range of languages, although knowledge of no language other than English is assumed. Discussion points and suggested classroom activities. A chapter summary. This comprehensive and engaging book is ideal both for self-study and as a textbook for Translation theory courses within Translation Studies, Comparative Literature and Applied Linguistics.

Author : Ralph Krüger
Publisher : Frank & Timme GmbH
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783732901364

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The Interface between Scientific and Technical Translation Studies and Cognitive Linguistics by Ralph Krüger Pdf

Scientific and Technical Translation (STT) is a highly complex and knowledge-intensive field of translation and cognitive linguistics is a usage-based linguistic framework which provides powerful theoretical tools for modelling knowledge organisation and representation in discourse. This book explores the interface between scientific and technical translation studies and cognitive linguistics by discussing the epistemological, contextual, textual and cross-linguistic dimensions of scientific and technical translation from a cognitive linguistic perspective. Particular emphasis is placed on explicitation and implicitation as indicators of the interaction between text and context in STT. The corpusbased investigation of the two phenomena illustrates the complex knowledge requirements pertaining to scientific and technical translation and demonstrates the explanatory power of cognitive linguistics with regard to important textual and contextual aspects of STT.