Didactics of specialized translation - experiences and observations on student translation errors in the case of a wine-related document

Dobnik, Nadja (author)

Languages for specific purposes and technical terminology are key to developing professional competencies in future translators. During their undergraduate translation studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, students work with a broad range of texts, reaching from general-purpose to specialized texts (from economics, law, tourism etc.). Previous experience shows that while inexperienced translators and students feel a great deal of apprehension and uncertainty when faced with demanding technical texts, they nevertheless translate them successfully, primarily because the fear of the text motivates them to conduct in-depth research and seek solutions carefully. On the other hand, with general informative texts, which they do not perceive as technically challenging, they often overlook technical and culture-specific items, leading to severe translation errors. In order to verify this presumption, we analysed the translations of select technical and culture-specific terms in the text “Caractéristiques des vins d’Alsace” (Characteristics of the wines of Alsace). We were interested to see whether students working with a text that provides general information on different types of wine would identify its technical and culture-specific terms, and what solutions they would use in their translations.

• Language: English
• Keywords: didactics of translation, error analysis, specialized translation, translation of culture-specific terms, LSP
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2019
• Number of pages: Str. 49-69, 73
• Numbering: Vol. 14, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-117708
• UDC: 81
• ISSN on article: 1854-2042
• COBISS.SI-ID: 25467366

Copyright

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• Publication date in RUL: 22.07.2020

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Scripta manent : revija Slovenskega društva učiteljev tujega strokovnega jezika = journal of the Slovene Association of LSP Teachers
• Publisher: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani = University of Ljubljana Press, Slovensko društvo učiteljev tujega strokovnega jezika = The Slovene Association of LSP Teachers
• ISSN: 1854-2042
• COBISS.SI-ID: 219704576

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• License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Didaktika prevajanja strokovnih besedil – izkušnje in opažanja prevajalskih napak študentov na primeru besedila o vinih

Abstract

V izobraževanju prevajalcev je področje jezika stroke in strokovne terminologije eno ključnih področij razvijanja prevajalskih kompetenc. V okviru dodiplomskega študija prevajalstva na Oddelku za prevajalstvo FFUL se študenti srečajo s široko paleto besedil, od splošnih do besedil s specifičnih področij (ekonomija, pravo, turizem ipd.). Izkušnje kažejo, da neizkušeni prevajalci in študenti čutijo precejšen strah in negotovost pred zahtevnimi strokovnimi in tehničnimi besedili, vendar so pri prevajanju takih besedil dokaj uspešni, predvsem zato, ker jih strah spodbudi k raziskovanju in poglobljenemu iskanju rešitev. Po drugi strani pa v besedilih splošne in informativne narave, ki jih ne dojamejo kot strokovno zahtevna, pogosto spregledajo strokovne in kulturno-specifične izraze, kar ima lahko za posledico hude pomenske napake. Da bi preverili to ugotovitev, smo analizirali prevode izbranih strokovnih izrazov in kulturno-specifičnih pojmov v besedilu Caractéristiques des vins d’Alsace. Zanimalo nas je, ali študenti v besedilu splošnega informativnega značaja s področja vin prepoznajo strokovne in kulturno-specifične izraze in kakšne prevodne rešitve uporabijo v prevodih.