This thesis discusses the topic of the organized translation activities in the second half of the 20th century. It focuses especially on translators of technical texts. The purpose of the thesis is to provide the basic overview of organizations and institutions which operated in Czechoslovakia, and to which the translation activities were concentrated. There is no similar systematic overview in the home professional literature yet. The research method of the oral history was realized via interviews with witnesses. Case studies, dealing in detail with one or another of the examined organizations or institutions, like International Federation of Translators, Translation Department of the Czechoslovakian Writer's Union, translation department in Škoda Auto a.s., International Organisation of Journalists, Prague City Tourism and World Federation of Trade Unions, resulted from the interviews. The information from the interviews was compared and general conclusions about the translating work in the second half of the 20th century were stated. KEY WORDS extern translator, institution, intern translator, technical translation, oral history, organization, organized activities, case study

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:23:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luciene Novais Mazz.pdf: 4727183 bytes, checksum: 7817f0fb80c1675457368b46c2a748d7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-23 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Into the corporate world there are various standard settlement documents establishing an explicit hierarchy of power with respect to the effectiveness of written texts, invoking actors by a specific mode of enunciation in the process of translating a text from a given source language into a target language. But, despite that rigid regulation could be homogenized, in terms of meaning, it has not prevent cultural dimension interference that reflects the foreign text and also it cannot obscure the value of diversity amongst companies spread all over the world. On the other hand, that interference has effects on the way to develop writing of domain-specific language even in English as the global language of business. Besides the identity preserved by regulations and standards, this thesis aims to demonstrate differences on translating a technical document from multiple foreign languages into English. The starting point for our research lies in three main approaches: the translation process, highlighting the linguistic and cultural diversities amongst target texts; Bakhtin´s theory of dialogical discourse on the concept of multiple voices, the plurivocity as a fundamental condition operating the meaning; terminology studies that provides a theoretical and methodological bases to search for lexical units in a specific domain. Moreover, the theory and corpus-based studies allow developing an initial methodological procedure based on corpus linguistics analysis, considering the three aspects: (i) lexical variation leveling of its irregularities and further establishing identity amongst texts, (ii) linguistics invariant enabling to recognize the differences within groups as well as enunciative traces in which discourse are addressed to take place in different social and cultural environment, (iii) effects of relationship of lexical units among texts so as to provide a normalization and standardization of compound words (terms) that are given in specific contexts. This research in a relevant sense finds support on a study-initiated of a previous master´s program. In addition to it offers knowledge carried out under particularly specific features of linguistics and social scope to pharmaceutical domain and also issues relate to corporate interests and its interdisciplinary scientific fields / No mundo corporativo, há inúmeros documentos altamente regulados e padronizados estabelecendo explícita hierarquização de poder em relação à escrita, aos atores envolvidos, à enunciação que os caracteriza, tanto na língua fonte como em sua tradução para outras línguas. Esse aspecto, que poderia homogeneizar os sentidos, não impede, apesar da rigidez normativa, interferências da dimensão cultural, da interculturalidade que caracteriza as traduções, e da diversidade das relações entre empresas. Isso acarreta divergências no modo de redigir textos de uma dada especialidade, ainda que em uma língua pretensamente globalizada, como é a língua inglesa. A partir desse pressuposto, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo demonstrar, ao lado da identidade resguardada pelas normas, as diferenças na tradução técnica presentes em documentos escritos, traduzidos do original de diversas línguas para a língua inglesa. Os pontos de partida para este estudo situam-se em três principais abordagens: a) o processo tradutório, evidenciando as diferenças linguísticas e culturais entre os textos de chegada coletados; b) a teoria dialógica do discurso, que oferece os conceitos de vozes, de plurivocidade, como condição de sentido; c) os estudos terminológicos, que fornecem bases teóricas e metodológicas na investigação das unidades lexicais de conteúdo específico. A fundamentação teórica e o corpus permitem um trabalho metodológico inicial com o léxico com base na Linguística de Corpus, considerando-se: (i) as regularidades e invariantes linguísticas que levará ao estabelecimento de certa identidade entre os textos; e (ii) a identificação e análise dos aspectos que convivem com essas invariantes e que possibilitam reconhecer as diferenças no interior da identidade identificada por marcas enunciativas que revelam os discursos produzidos em diferentes lugares sociais e culturais, conforme proposta da teoria bakhtiniana; e (iii) a consequente relação das unidades lexicais entre os documentos analisados, viabilizando a aplicação de uma normatização dos termos em documentos técnicos especializados. A relevância desta pesquisa reside na continuidade do trabalho iniciado no mestrado e na possibilidade de oferecer recursos aos profissionais que atuam especificamente no setor da indústria farmacêutica, bem como em assuntos relacionados aos interesses corporativos e às esferas técnico-acadêmicas e científicas

<p>This dissertation investigates translation strategies and translation principles in technical translation. Five translation students and 5 professional translators from German-speaking Switzerland and 4 translation students and 6 professional translators from Sweden were asked to think aloud while translating a user guide from French into German and from French into Swedish, respectively. The focus of the analysis was on the strategies that could be observed by comparing the translation products with the source text; and on the principles underlying these strategies as revealed by the think-aloud protocols of the translation processes. In order to evaluate the extent to which the translation products complied with the fictitious translation brief given to the participants, 2 reviewers per language pair proofread the translation products. The analysis also included contrastive analyses of certain linguistic features of technical texts in French-German and French-Swedish. The results show that experience of translation does play a role in the choice of translation strategy. It is, however, an even more important factor with respect to knowing and applying translation principles in the translation process. Also, students more often display uncertainty regarding translation principles, and conflict between the principles verbalised and those actually followed. Language-pair specific differences were mostly found in connection with translation strategies. Comments about future directions include the need for clearer definitions and more systematic manipulations of the variables involved in translation, and the potential interest in investigating the principles governing how translations are revised through the use of think-aloud protocols.</p>

This dissertation investigates translation strategies and translation principles in technical translation. Five translation students and 5 professional translators from German-speaking Switzerland and 4 translation students and 6 professional translators from Sweden were asked to think aloud while translating a user guide from French into German and from French into Swedish, respectively. The focus of the analysis was on the strategies that could be observed by comparing the translation products with the source text; and on the principles underlying these strategies as revealed by the think-aloud protocols of the translation processes. In order to evaluate the extent to which the translation products complied with the fictitious translation brief given to the participants, 2 reviewers per language pair proofread the translation products. The analysis also included contrastive analyses of certain linguistic features of technical texts in French-German and French-Swedish. The results show that experience of translation does play a role in the choice of translation strategy. It is, however, an even more important factor with respect to knowing and applying translation principles in the translation process. Also, students more often display uncertainty regarding translation principles, and conflict between the principles verbalised and those actually followed. Language-pair specific differences were mostly found in connection with translation strategies. Comments about future directions include the need for clearer definitions and more systematic manipulations of the variables involved in translation, and the potential interest in investigating the principles governing how translations are revised through the use of think-aloud protocols.

Cette thèse analyse les stratégies de traduction et l’acquisition de connaissances à partir d’entretiens et de questionnaires envoyés à des traducteurs techniques indépendants. L’objectif est de voir si les stratégies de traduction sont influencées par des facteurs que le traducteur peut plus ou moins maîtriser et si l’expérience, la formation en traduction et-ou dans un domaine et, les langues de travail jouent aussi un rôle. Il apparaît que la pression du temps influence la décision d’accepter ou de refuser une traduction et que sous cette pression, le traducteur ne consulte pas les mêmes documents, acquiert moins de connaissances et, passe moins de temps à l’archivage. Le manque de sources pose des problèmes aux traducteurs de langues peu répandues. La création terminologique, l’analyse du texte, l’aide de la source humaine et l’archivage des informations sont plus systématiques pour ces traducteurs que pour ceux de langues répandues. Le traducteur spécialisé attache moins d’importance à la technicité du texte de départ que celui sans spécialisation, achète plus de documents et évalue plus facilement le temps qu’il consacrera à la recherche documentaire. Les « jeunes » traducteurs voient un lien fort entre la technicité du texte et sa difficulté, préfèrent utiliser des sources donnant des réponses immédiates aux problèmes, consultent et achètent moins de sources sur support papier que les traducteurs expérimentés. Internet a marginalisé l’utilisation et les achats de sources sur support papier mais ne permet pas forcément de se spécialiser. Avec Internet, le client accorde des délais plus courts et les traducteurs acceptent de traduire des textes plus techniques. / This thesis analyzes translation strategies and knowledge acquisition. It is based on interviews and questionnaires from a sample of freelance technical translators. The purpose is to investigate if translation strategies are influenced by factors translators can handle more or less, such as experience, training and working languages. It appears that time pressure has an influence on the decision to accept or refuse a translation. When under pressure, translators do not use the same documents, get less knowledge and spend less time storing information. The lack of documents is problematic for translators whose languages are rarely spoken and read in their working environment. They create more terms in the target language and analyze the source text more in-depth than translators of widespread languages ; they also get help from the human source and store information more often than translators of widespread languages. Specialized translators give more importance to the technicity of the source text than non-specialized translators ; they buy more documents and are more able to assess the time they will take to do documentary research. “Young” translators think there is a strong link between the technicity of the source text and its level of difficulty. They also prefer to directly use documents matching what they look for, use and buy less paper documents than experienced translators. Translators use and buy less paper documents, and accept to translate more technical texts than during the pre-Internet period. Clients also give them shorter deadlines than before.

The aim of this thesis is to provide an insight into the translation of technical texts from German to Czech. The theoretical part discusses the present state of knowledge of technical translation in Czech and German speaking countries, the scientific discourse, text typology and classification of texts with regard to the context. Furthermore, this thesis describes contrasts of technical texts, and their characteristic features on a lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and text level. This thesis focuses on technical translation of medical texts with their most common text types and specific features, and explains implications for their translation from German to Czech. The empirical part of the thesis includes translation analysis of a chosen text type and an overview of main text types in medicine, followed by examples of parallel texts in Czech and German. To provide more objective information about translation of technical texts, a survey was carried out among translators and translation services agencies. The subsequent results were compared with the findings presented in the theoretical part. In the conclusion, this thesis summarizes the results of the research into the translation of technical texts from German to Czech with regard to medical texts and offers suggestions for further research.

Работа посвящена сравнению качества перевода технического текста с английского языка на русский, полученного с помощью различных систем машинного перевода (СМП), на примере научной статьи металлургической тематики “Fluid Dynamics Studies of Bottom-blown and Side-blown Copper Smelting Furnaces”. В первой части работы рассматриваются общие вопросы машинного и технического перевода: приводятся понятия машинного перевода и технического перевода, определяются основные способы и алгоритмы работы СМП, выделяются основные особенности и проблемы технического перевода. Особое внимание уделяется выявлению функциональных возможностей наиболее популярных сервисов машинного перевода, к которым относятся такие СМП как Google Translate, Яндекс Переводчик, Bing Microsoft Translator, SYSTRAN Translate, PROMT.One. Во второй части работы раскрываются особенности металлургической терминологии и специфика ее заимствования, разрабатывается методика оценки качества перевода технического текста металлургической направленности, проводится апробационное исследование переводов, выполненных с помощью различных систем машинного перевода и определяются перспективы использования СМП в металлургической отрасли. Большое внимание уделяется оценке качества переводов по представленным методикам, при этом все результаты приводятся в виде таблиц с указанием количества ошибок и итоговых баллов. Результаты исследования могут быть использованы на различных предприятиях металлургического сектора при работе с документацией на иностранных языках. / This paper is devoted to comparison of translation quality obtained as a result of using machine translation (MT) systems to translate technical documents from English into Russian in the case of a metallurgical article “Fluid Dynamics Studies of Bottom-blown and Side-blown Copper Smelting Furnaces”. The first part of the paper covers general issues of machine and technical translation, including concepts of machine and technical translation, the main operation methods and algorithms, and the main features of technical translation. Particular attention is paid to identification of core functionality of the most popular machine translation systems, which include Google Translate, Yandex Translate, Bing Microsoft Translator, SYSTRAN Translate, PROMT.One. The second part of the paper reveals the main features of metallurgical terminology and the specifics of its naturalization. It also contains several translation quality assessment methodologies and includes an analysis of machine translation quality. Moreover, it features the main prospects for using MT systems in metallurgy. Much attention is paid to translation quality assessment on methodologies presented in the paper. All the results are presented in the form of tables with the number of errors and final scores for each MT system. The results of the study may be used at various metallurgical enterprises working with documentation in foreign languages.