Scientific and technical translation / edited by Sue Ellen Wright and Leland D. Wright, Jr. - 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - American Translators Association scholarly monograph series, v. 6 0890-4111 ; . - American Translators Association scholarly monograph series ; v. 6. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Editors' Remarks: Technical Translation and the American Translator -- Technical Translation Style: Clarity, Concision, Correctness -- Contrastive Scientific and Technical Register as a Translation Problem -- The Challenges of Simplicity and Complexity: German-English Modes and Interrelationships -- The Inappropriateness of the Merely Correct: Stylistic Considerations in Scientific and Technical Translation -- Translation, the Great Pollinator of Science: A Brief Flashback on Medical Translation -- Translating for the Small World -- Patent Claim Translation -- Linguistic and Technical Preparation in the Training of Technical Translators and Interpreters -- Toward an Expanded Pedagogy of Specialized Translation -- "Retooling" as an Adaptive Skill for Translators -- Text Typology and Translation-Oriented Text Analysis -- The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) Heuristic Textual Resources in Translation-Oriented Databases -- New Trends in Translation-Oriented Terminology Management -- Bibliography of Polish Terminology Resources -- Selected Elements from a Theory of Fractal Linguistics: Possible Implications for Machine Translation, Terminology Management, and Other NLP Applications -- Translators and Interpreters as Adopters and Agents of Diffusion of Planned Lexical Innovations: The Francophone Case -- Contributors -- ATA Corporate Members (1993) -- ATA Institutional Members (1993) -- American Translators Association, Officers and Board of Directors (1993) -- Recipients of the Alexander Gode Medal -- Subject Index -- Author Index.

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Science--Translating
Technology--Translating
Translating and interpreting

P306 / .A53 v.6

418.036