Publications

Publication details [#51929]

Gauton, Rachélle, Elsabé Taljard, Tirhani Mabasa and Lufuno Netshitomboni. 2008. Translating technical (LSP) texts into the official South African languages: A corpus-based investigation of translators' strategies. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 39 (2) : 148–180.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | discourse strategy | technical language | term coordination | translation

Language as a subject

English | Languages, South African

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This applied corpus-based translation study explores challenges related to the translation of English technical texts into the eleven official South African languages, such as lack of terminology.