Negotiating Constraints on Legal Translation Performance in an Outsourced Environment

Scott, Juliette

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“…Bhatia also highlights substantial gaps in our understanding of how genres interact and appropriate textexternal resources from one another. This notion of interdiscursivity has been explored in interlingual settings (for example in Salö and Hanell's (2014) study of how a Swedish computer scientist performs "unprecedented genres" in Swedish by drawing on prior linguistic practices in both Swedish and English) and, to a limited extent, in legal translation settings (e.g., Scott 2018). For translation studies, it would be instructive to research those professional contexts in which translated technical content is used, and to examine the ways in which translations figure in those professional practices wherever they take place, in software development and industrial manufacturing, in laboratories and research centres, in diverse installation and operation settings, and so on.…”

Section: Technical Texts and Technical Communicationmentioning

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Translating Technical Texts

Olohan¹

2022

The Cambridge Handbook of Translation

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Olohan, Maeve (2021) 'Translating Technical Texts', in Kirsten Malmkjaer (ed.) Cambridge Handbook of Translation,Cambridge: CUP.now likely to be a modular assembly of numerous pieces of topic-based content, some of which could also be used in online help files, or even in a marketing brochure. Additionally, a single source of content may be used to produce a range of output types for different media or publishing channels, e.g., for print, website or mobile app. Responsive design delivers dynamic formatting so that the content can be viewed optimally, regardless of the platform on which it is published. However, like topic-based authoring, this practice of single-source authoring can have an impact on decisions about what information to communicate and how (ibid.)Rather than consider further how a technical text might be defined and delimited, it may be more productive to focus our attention on the practices in which technical content figures. From a practice-theoretical perspective, the social realm is conceptualised as a "nexus" or "plenum" of practices (Schatzki 2001, 2; 2016, 6). Thus, to understand the nature of one practice, we can investigate both how it is constituted and how it connects with other practices. As indicated above, technical communication involves authoring practices of various kinds, and it is helpful to consider the practice of technical translation as being closely connected to those practices of technical authoring, as is done in Maylath and St. Amant's (2019) guide to translation and localisation in technical communication. Generally speaking, before technical content is translated into target languages (TLs), it is first produced in the source language (SL). Even if assembled in modular fashion, the content that is used to produce technical specifications, product descriptions, instruction guides, user manuals, software user interfaces, help files, etc. is usually first created by technical authors.

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Section: Technical Texts and Technical Communicationmentioning

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Translating Technical Texts

Olohan¹

2022

The Cambridge Handbook of Translation

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“…For this research, cohesion, which is examined at the translated text level (textual level), and cohesion, which is perceived as functional at the text-in-context level, for instance, the realm of pragmatics, is reflected to be thoroughly related. This indicates that cohesion is examined by considering the underlying coherence (Scott, 2018), a phase that is basic if the study is to achieve uniform pertinent results. The purpose of the current research is to examine the organizational problems that EFL students at the Department of Languages and Translation at the University of Tabuk when they write an argumentative essay.…”

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Cohesive connectivity in argumentative writing by EFL students

Khotaba

2022

GJFLT

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In a study carried out on EFL students’ translation skills, it was found that they commonly encounter problems related to concepts’ structural organization in the translated text. This research aimed to examine cohesion and coherence in argumentative writing by EFL students at the University of Tabuk for the academic year 2022/2023. The theoretical framework of the study is based on Halliday and Hasan's (1976) theory of coherence and cohesion shifts in translation. This qualitative study included 15 participants in their third-year EFL students from the Department of Languages and Translation at the University of Tabuk in Saudi Arabia. Participants were selected purposively. Argumentative written texts were the instrument used to collect data in this study. Results showed that students encountered cohesion and coherence problems in achieving written texts’ unity, particularly in assigning their concepts and implementing appropriate cohesive signals, punctuation, and spelling issues. Keywords: Argumentative writing; cohesion; coherence; EFL; writing

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Negotiating Constraints on Legal Translation Performance in an Outsourced Environment

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Translating Technical Texts

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Cohesive connectivity in argumentative writing by EFL students

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