Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editors’ remarks: technical translation and the american translator 1
4. Section 1: Style and register in technical translation
5. Technical translation style 11
6. Contrastive scientific and technical register as a translation problem 21
7. The challenges of simplicity and complexity 53
8. The inappropriateness of the merely correct 69
9. Section 2: Special applications
10. Translation, the great pollinator of science 89
11. Translating for the small world 101
12. Section 3: Training and autodidactic approaches for technical translators
13. linguistic and technical preparation in the training of technical translators and interpreters 123
14. Toward an expended pedagogy of specialized translation 151
15. “Retooling”as an Adaptive skill for translators 161
16. Section 4: text analysis and text typology as tools for technical translators
17. Text typology and translation-oriented text analysis 175
18. The standard generalized markup (SGML) heuristic textual resources in translation-oriented databases 185
19. Section 5: Translation-orientedd terminology activities
20. New trends in translation-oriented terminology management 209
21. Bibliography of Polsh terminology resources 217
22. Selected elements from a theory of fractal linguistics 235
23. Translators and interpreters as adopters and agents of diffusion of planned lexical innovations 265
24. Contributors 277
25. ATA corporate members (1993) 281
26. ATA institutional members (1993) 287
27. American translators association, officers and board of directors (1993) 289
28. Subject index 291
29. Author index 296