The terminology of translation

Abstract

This article focuses on three kinds of problems besetting the terminology of translation. Firstly, the weak epistemological status of Translation Studies as a discipline does not favour consensus among specialists. Secondly, conceptual difficulties arise from the fact that the relationship between concepts and terms is far from univocal: conceptual similarities are clouded by terminological differences, and conceptual differences lurk beneath apparent synonymy. Thirdly, both conceptual and terminological practices are often rooted in different national traditions and may be school-specific. These three sets of problems are interrelated, and they are shown at work in a concept that has often been referred to as technique or shift. They have not only inward — academic and theoretical — but also outward — social and professional — consequences, as the social projection of professional translators vis-à-vis other professions may depend to a certain extent on their ability to use an acknowledged terminology. The same may be true of the translation scholar community.

The translation of food-related culture-specific items in the Valencian Corpus of Translated Literature (COVALT) corpus: a study of techniques and factors

“…My own approach to the classification of translation techniques for CSIs (Marco, 2004(Marco, , 2007 partly overlaps with several of the classifications above and is particularly close to Olk's in that it merges the two criteria of foreignisation/domestication and translator intervention. Translation techniques are thus aligned on a cline with maximal distance from the target reader at one end and minimal distance at the opposite end.…”

“…Even though it is far beyond the scope of the present paper to provide an exhaustive account of the typologies proposed, in the next paragraph I will briefly refer to a number of them and discuss some of their similarities and divergences. Newmark (1988) puts forward a very thorough classification, whose main weakness might lie in its redundant nature and the fact that categories are discrete and not arranged according to any principlesee Marco (2004Marco ( , 2007. Franco Aixelá (1996), in a very comprehensive study, does arrange translation procedures according to their degree of intercultural manipulation: some tend towards conservation (of the ST cultural item), others towards substitution (by a target culture item).…”

Promoción de ciudades Patrimonio de la Humanidad: estudio sobre la traducción del léxico relacionado con la gastronomía

“…Marco (2019) también analiza las referencias culturales relacionadas con la comida y la bebida, concretamente en el subcomponente inglés-catalán del corpus COVALT. Se basa en una clasificación previa de técnicas de traducción de los referentes culturales (Marco, 2004(Marco, , 2007, según la cual las técnicas de traducción se organizan en función de dos criterios: la distancia con respecto al lector meta y el grado de intervención del traductor. Distingue tres tipos de técnicas: extranje ri zan tes, neutralizadoras y familiarizantes.…”