La variación terminológica en textos fuente y sus traducciones: un estudio piloto

Sabela Fernández-Silva; Koen Kerremans; Juan Felipe Zuluaga Molina; Manuela Hernández Sánchez

doi:10.17533/udea.lyl.n79a29

Authors

Sabela Fernández-Silva Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Pompeu Fabra University
Koen Kerremans Erasmus Brussels University, Free University of Brussels
Juan Felipe Zuluaga Molina University of Antioquia
Manuela Hernández Sánchez University of Antioquia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.n79a29

Keywords:

terminological variation, specialized translation, term motivation, interlingual variation index, cognitive distance

Abstract

In this article, it is assumed that the choice of terminological variants in specialized source texts is sometimes cognitively motivated and that this motivation is reflected in the choice of equivalents in the target texts. On the basis of a pilot study, we will present a method for comparing the cognitively motivated terminological variants in source texts and their translations. The corpus in the pilot study is composed of three Galician source texts and their English translations. The texts are scientific articles addressing the economic effects of environmental disasters on fisheries. A quantitative study was first carried out in which the number of unique terms in each source text was compared to the number of unique translations of these terms. Next, each unique combination of a source term and its translation equivalent was subjected

to a qualitative analysis. A value was manually assigned in order to qualify the «cognitive distance» between the source term and its translation. Based on these values and the frequency of the translation pair in each bitext, we computed the «interlingual variation index» (IVI). Differences in results between the bitexts are linked to extra-linguistic factors related to the translation processes.

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Author Biographies

Juan Felipe Zuluaga Molina, University of Antioquia

Member of the research group TNT (Translation and New Technologies) of the School of Languages of the University of Antioquia (Colombia).

Manuela Hernández Sánchez, University of Antioquia

Member of the research group TNT (Translation and New Technologies) of the School of Languages of the University of Antioquia (Colombia).

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