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17 - Translating Academic Texts

from Part IV - Translation in Practice: Factual Genres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2022

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Krisztina Károly
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Kirsten Malmkjær
Kirsten Malmkjær
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University of Leicester
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Summary

Chapter 17 highlights how translation studies’ interaction with genre analysis, register studies, critical language study, contrastive rhetoric and the study of languages for special/academic purposes relates to the translation of academic texts. Most investigations contrast English with languages such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Slovene, Hungarian, Finnish and Danish, and the foci of analyses relate to a wide range of topics, such as translation strategies, style and register, terminology, and culture-specific discourse conventions. The chapter identifies the challenges that the field faces and the areas where further research is needed.

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Genreregistercritical language studycontrastive rhetoricLSPacademic texts
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The Cambridge Handbook of Translation , pp. 340 - 362
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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