The Interface between Scientific and Technical Translation Studies and Cognitive Linguistics

Ralph Krüger

The Interface between Scientific and Technical Translation Studies and Cognitive Linguistics

With Particular Emphasis on Explicitation and Implicitation as Indicators of translational text-context interaction

TRANSÜD. Arbeiten zur Theorie und Praxis des Übersetzens und Dolmetschens, Volume 74

ISBN
978-3-7329-0136-4 9783732901364
Date of appearance
2015
Language
English
Binding
Paperback
Pages
482
Format
14.8 × 21.0 cm (B × H)
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Price
79.80 €

Contents

Scientific and Technical Translation (STT) is a highly complex and knowledge-intensive field of translation and cognitive linguistics is a usage-based linguistic framework which provides powerful theoretical tools for modelling knowledge organisation and representation in discourse. This book explores the interface between scientific and technical translation studies and cognitive linguistics by discussing the epistemological, contextual, textual and cross-linguistic dimensions of scientific and technical translation from a cognitive linguistic perspective. Particular emphasis is placed on explicitation and implicitation as indicators of the interaction between text and context in STT. The corpusbased investigation of the two phenomena illustrates the complex knowledge requirements pertaining to scientific and technical translation and demonstrates the explanatory power of cognitive linguistics with regard to important textual and contextual aspects of STT.

Author

Ralph Krüger is a lecturer in translation studies and specialised translation at the Institute of Translation and Multilingual Communication at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in translation studies from the University of Salford, UK. His research interests focus on cognitive theories of translation, the application of electronic corpora in translation teaching and the didactics of specialised translation. Prior to joining academia, he worked as specialised translator for a major German translation company.

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