Insights into Specialized Translation

406 Pages·2006·1.427 MB·English

by  Maurizio Gotti, Susan Sarcevic

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and has been invited to lecture on legal translation
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worldwide. She is a translator of legal texts and
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Linguistic Insights
○ 46 ○
○ ○
Studies in Language and Communication
○ ○
○ This volume focuses on specialist translation – one ○
○ of the areas of translation in greatest demand in our n ○
o
○ age of globalization. The 16 chapters deal not only ati ○
○ with the classical domains of science and techno- sl ○
n
○ logy, law, socio-politics and medicine but also with ra ○
T
○ lesser researched areas such as archeology, geo- d ○
e
○ graphy, nutrigenomics and others. As a whole, the aliz ○
○ book achieves a blend of theory and practice. It ci ○
e
○ addresses a variety of issues such as translation p ○
S
○ strategy based on text type and purpose, inter- o ○
t
○ cultural transfer and quality assessment, as well as n ○
s i
○ textual and terminological issues in bilingual and t ○
h
○ multilingual settings, including international sig ○
○ organizations and the European Union. Today • In ○
○ translation competence presupposes multidiscip- s) ○
○ linary skills. Whereas some chapters analyze the d ○
e
○ linguistic features of special-purpose texts and their ´c ( ○
○ function in specialized communication, others evi ○
○ show how specialized translation has changed as a ^rc ○
a
○ result of globalization and how advances in n Š ○ Maurizio Gotti &
○ technology have altered terminology research and a ○ ^
○ translation processing. Sus ○ Susan Šarcevic´ (eds)
&
○ ti
○ ot Insights into
G
○ o
○ zi
uri Specialized Translation
○ a
M
○ Maurizio Gotti is Professor of English Linguistics at
○ the University of Bergamo, Italy. He is currently
○ President of the Italian Association of University Norms and Practices in Genre
○
Language Centres and Director of CERLIS, the re-
○
search centre on specialized languages based at the
○
University of Bergamo. His main research areas are
○
the features and origins of specialized discourse,
English syntax, and English lexicology and lexico- ○
graphy. ○
○
^
Susan Šarcevi´c is Professor at the Faculty of Law of g○
the University of Rijeka (Croatia) where she teaches n
a○
Legal English, Legal German and EU Terminology. L
○
She has published extensively on legal translation, r
e○
legal lexicography and multilingual communica- t
e○
tion in the law (in English, German and Croatian) P
○
and has been invited to lecture on legal translation
○
worldwide. She is a translator of legal texts and
reviser of legal texts in English. ○
○
○
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Insights into Specialized Translation
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Studies in Language and Communication
Edited by Maurizio Gotti,
University of Bergamo
Volume 46
PETER LANG
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Maurizio Gotti & Susan Šarcevic´ (eds)
Insights into
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Norms and Practices in Genre
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Contents
MAURIZIOGOTTI/SUSANŠAR(cid:253)EVI(cid:251)
Introduction …………………………………………………………. 9
Theoretical and Methodological Issues
CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR
Which Strategy for Which Text? Translation Strategies for
Languages for Special Purposes.…………………………………… 27
HANNELORELEE-JAHNKE
Vertikale Komplexität und horizontale Spezialisierung in der
Translationsdidaktik...….………….....…………..………………… 55
JEAN-CLAUDE GÉMAR
Traduction spécialisée et droit. Langages du droit, styles et sens..… 79
PETER SANDRINI
LSP Translation and Globalization..……………………………… 107
SUSANŠAR(cid:253)EVI(cid:251)
Die Übersetzung von mehrsprachigen EU-Rechtsvorschriften:
Der Kampf gegen Sprachdivergenzen..…………………………… 121
Quality and Cultural Issues
FEDERICASCARPA
Corpus-based Quality-Assessment of Specialist Translation:
A Study Using Parallel and Comparable Corpora in English
and Italian.………………………………………………………… 155
MARIATERESA MUSACCHIO
Quality in Published Italian Specialised Translations…..………… 173
ALEXANDERKÜNZLI
Translation Revision: A Study of the Performance of Ten
Professional Translators Revising a Technical Text....…………… 193
MARIAGRAZIA GUIDO
Intercultural Issues in the Translation of Popular Scientific Discourse:
A Case Study on ‘Nutrigenomics’.………………………………… 213
LUCIAABBAMONTE/FLAVIA CAVALIERE
Lost in Translation: The Italian Rendering of UNICEF
‘The State of the World’s Children 2004’ Report………………… 235
Textual and Terminological Issues
BORISPRITCHARD
Some Lexical Aspects of Translating Specialised Texts….……… 261
EVAWIESMANN
Zur Vagheit in Vertragstexten: Rechtliche Funktionen und
übersetzungsrelevante Dimensionen vager Wörter und
Wortverbindungen..……………………….……………………… 289
NICOLETTAGAGLIARDI
Zur Übersetzung archäologischer Fachtexte (italienisch-deutsch).. 313
MARGARETROGERS
How Do Specialist Translators Research their Terminology?
A Case Study Approach with a Historical Perspective....………… 329
DIEGOA.BURGOSHERRERA
Concept and Usage-Based Approach forHighly Specialized
Technical Term Translation...……………………..……………… 347
GABRIELÁNGELQUIROZH.
Using an English-Spanish Parallel Corpus to Solve Complex
Premodification in Noun Phrases...………………..……………… 367
Notes on Contributors..…………………………………………… 391