Lexico-Semantic Analysis in Specialized Translation
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https://doi.org/10.26512/belasinfieis.v12.n1.2023.39172Keywords:
Technical and scientific translation. Translation competence. Thematic capacity. Lexical semantics. Terminology.Abstract
This paper presents a case study research referred to activities in a course on Technical and Scientific Translation Practice (English-Portuguese) at the Translation Program in the University of Brasilia. The purpose is to develop an approach to help translation students to understand linguistic functioning of terms in specialized translations. This study is based on the translation competence framework (Gonçalves, 2015), particularly on the thematic capacity/terminological knowledge which are necessary to develop a technical or scientific translation. It is also based on the lexical semantic approach for Terminology (L’Homme 2004, 2016, 2017, 2020) which helps to understand and explain the functioning of terms. The methodology is conducted by i) selecting terms extracted from source texts, particularly scientific articles in English, that present lexical difficulties related to the terminological structure in the target text in Brazilian Portuguese; ii) building a comparable corpus containing texts that pertain to the same language, topic, and genre of the target text. The results show that lexical difficulties are due to predicative terms and lexical relations that require a specific terminological structure to the appropriate understanding of lexical meaning and establishment of the expected lexical relations in a specialized text. Within the scope of translation teaching, we intend in future work to develop research to prepare lexical activities, such as in Alipour (2018), that raise learners’ awareness for understanding the linguistic property of terms, and to verify to what extent these activities may mobilize thematic capacity/terminological knowledge of translation students.
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