22.2475, Books: Cog Sci/Lexicography/Translation/Ling & Lit: Kasprzak

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Subject: Translating Nature Terminology: Kasprzak
 

	
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Title: Translating Nature Terminology 
Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.c-s-p.org
	
Author: Wojciech Kasprzak

Hardback: ISBN:  9781443828505 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 39.99


Abstract:

"Translating Nature Terminology" hopes to fill a vacuum in the market, 
combining practical advice for translators with aspects of linguistics and 
natural sciences. It is a response to the growing popularity of bilingual 
(Polish-English) publications on nature in Poland, which, however, abound in 
mistranslated nature terminology. Using cognitivism-based analysis, it traces 
the vagaries of categorisation of the natural world within one language as well 
as interlingually, with a view to helping translators find suitable equivalents of 
concepts and terms representing them. Translators can learn, for instance, 
when overspecification, underspecification or domestication are justified and 
when they become a translation error, what to do with the names of cultivars, 
or in what context one should render turzycowisko as "tall sedge swamp" and 
where as "sedge fen." The book also demonstrates that terminological 
correctness is not only a must for informative texts but it is often 
indispensable to ensure the coherence of literary works. It pays particular 
attention to the penetration of folk terms into specialist texts and vice versa. 
The reliability of dictionaries, both general and specialist, is called into 
question and keeping in touch with up-to-date professional sources is 
recommended instead. All the above claims are thoroughly researched and 
amply exemplified. 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Lexicography
                     Ling & Literature
                     Translation

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Polish (pol)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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