Designing a Model for Translation of Technical Terminology

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Shadi  Forutanian ¹ (Department of Foreign Languages, Sepahan University)

Received: 2011-12-17 Accepted : 2012-02-01 Published : 2012-02-01

Keywords: Model Designing, English-Persian Translation, Translation of Terminologies, Technical terminology,

Abstract :

Technical terminology has a significant role in translation of technical or scientific texts. Unfortunately, most of research in this area has not perceived the urgent need for a model to analyze or shown how translate technical or scientific terminology. In this paper, the researcher attempts to designs a workable model for translation of technical or scientific terminology. The major aim of this model is to provide a real equivalence for both one word terms and above words terms. The design of such a model benefits from different theories about equivalence and approaches that are used for finding real equivalence which translation studies especially technical translation are still lacking.

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