How to translate the term: Translation options outside the framework of the term record
Abstract
Translators of specialised texts often consult multilingual terminology databases to find suitable equivalents for terms that they need to translate. Such databases are comprised of concept-oriented terminological records. Each terminological record consists of terms (in several languages) that refer to the same concept. We will illustrate on the basis of examples taken from a comparative study of terms and their translations in European source and target texts and in the European terminology database ‘IATE’ that translators sometimes propose translations that do not appear on concept-oriented terminological records. Starting from this observation, we will reflect on how future terminology databases for translators could be structured and enriched with results from contrastive corpus-based research.
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