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Publication details [#12514]

Agafonov, Claire, Thierry Grass, Denis Maurel, Nathalie Rossi-Gensane and Agata Savary. 2006. La traduction multilingue des noms propres dans PROLEX [The multilingual translation of proper names in PROLEX]. In Grass, Thierry, John Humbley and Jean-Louis Vaxelaire, eds. La traduction des noms propres [ The translation of proper names]. Special issue of Meta. Journal des Traducteurs, Translators' Journal 51 (4): 622–636.
Publication type
Article in Special issue
Publication language
French

Abstract

After defining what they mean by proper nouns, the authors mention some general problems raised by this category in relation to - multilingual - translation. They establish a two-level typology of proper nouns and then examine various devices, going form loan translation - which amounts to no translation - to free translation, through literal translation - not forgetting transliteration and transcription between two languages using different alphabets. They finally study some aspects of the morphology of proper nouns in relation to machine translation.
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