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Publication details [#10812]

Fahmy-Jammal, Amal. 1988. La traduction médicale: ses défis et ses traquenards [Medical translation: its pitfalls and challenges]. In Lindberg Hammond, Deanna, ed. Languages at crossroads. Medford: Learned Information. pp. 141–146.

Publication type

Article in jnl/bk

Publication language

French

Keywords

comprehension=miscomprehension | expert(ise) | knowledge=background knowledge=expert knowledge | medical discourse=medical sciences=medicine | problem-solving=problem

Abstract

The present article discusses some of the translation problems of medical texts into French, looking into semantic pitfalls, morphologic pitfalls, syntactical problems, the problem of English and French synonyms and pseudo synonyms, and the difference between register in English and French terminology

Source : P. Van Mulken