Translation of scientific and technical text

The belles-letters style –

• oratory, i.e. speeches and orations, essays and articles.

• contains such diverse categories as news reports, editorial comments, imaginative articles, reviews, letters

• is the style of the language of poetry, fiction and drama

• the language of business documents, the language of legal documents, the language of diplomacy

Who noted “in science, the language is concept-centered; in technology, it is object-centered”?

• Olohan

• Byrne

• Newmark

Whose thought is it? “The work of scientific translators is to achieve one primary goal: to write information in a clear, concise, and accurate manner”.

• Bethany Thivierge

• Al-Hasnawi

• Byrne

• Amman & Vermeer

- No use of elements of figurative language in scientific text

• True

• False

Very few abbreviations, acronyms, and registers in scientific text

• true

• false

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• - Lack of argumentative progression.

  No use of scientific terminology, or formulae.

  Expensive use of figurative language.

  - Truth to the ideal.

  - Concretion.

  - Emotive meaning.

  - Connotation.

• - Lexical affixation.

  - Idiomatic expressions are rare.

  - Use of abbreviation, acronym, and registers.

  - Standard expressions.

  - Use of scientific terminology, specialized items, and formulae.

• - Grammatical affixation.

  - Idiomatic expressions are frequent.

  - Very few abbreviations, acronyms, and registers.

  - Logicality.

  - Precision.

  - Reason.

• - Use of abbreviation, acronym, and registers.

  - Standard expressions.

  - Use of scientific terminology, specialized items, and formulae.

  - No use of elements of figurative language.

“ A thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof”

• Impersonality

• Argumentative

• Formulative

• Postulatory

One more observable feature of the scientific register is the use .............., ................, and .................. in accord with the main requirement of this register, i.e.

• Quotations

  References

  Foot-notes

• Vagueness.

  Emotion.

  Truth to the ideal.

• Logicality.

  Precision.

  Reason.

• Referential meaning.

  Denotation.

  Lexical affixation.

•is a foreign word or expression maintained in its original form in the target language.

• realia

• calque

• loanword

• neologizm

What are the 3 types of translation according to Roman Jakobson?

• Intralingual

  interlingual

  Intercalque

• Intralingual

  interlingual

  Intersemiotic

• Intralingual

  interlingual

  Intarsemiotic

• Intralingual

  innerlingual

  Intarsemiotic