A basis for scientific and engineering translation : German-English-German / Michael Hann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hann, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Translating.

Science.

Technology--Translating.

Technology.

English language--Translating into German.

English language.

German language--Translating into English.

German language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This e-book and the accompanying handbook attack many of the most crucial difficulties encountered by both native and non-native English speakers when translating scientific and engineering material from German.The e-book is like a miniature encyclopaedia dealing with the fundamental conceptual basis of science, engineering and mathematics, with particular regard to terminology. It provides didactically organised dictionaries, thesauri and a wide range of microglossaries highlighting polysemy, homonymy, hyponymy, context, collocation, usage as well as grammatical, lexical and semantic considerations essential to accurate translation. It also supplies a wide variety of reference material and illustrations useful to self-taught professional technical translators, translator trainers at universities, and especially to student translators.All the main branches of industrial technology are examined, such as mechanical, electrical, electronic, chemical, nuclear engineering, and fundamental terminologies are provided for a broad range of important subfields: automotive engineering, plastics, computer systems, construction technology, aircraft, machine tools.The handbook provides a useful introduction to the e-book, enabling readers proficient in two languages to acquire the basic skills necessary for technical translation by familiarity with fundamental engineering conceptions themselves. An additional source for sample texts can be found on the author's website http://people.freenet.de/Michael_Hann/index.html.

Contents:

A Basis for Scientific and Engineering Translation

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

User Guide

Unit 1. Access Facilities

Unit 2. Basic Mechanics

Unit 3. Basic Electricity

Unit 4. Translational Equivalence

Unit 5. Materials Science

Unit 6. Nucleonics

Unit 7. Lexical Interpretation

Unit 8. Automotive Engineering

Unit 9. Mechanical Engineering

Unit 10. Technical Polyseme Dictionary

Unit 11. Chemical Engineering

Unit 12. Electronics

Unit 13. Technical Grammar

Unit 14.Technical Thesaurus

Unit 15. Electrical Sciences

Unit 16. Mechanical Sciences

Unit 17. Technical Collocation Dictionary

Unit 18. Computer Engineering

Unit 19. Error Analysis

Unit 20. Concept Analysis

Unit 21. Mathematics

Unit 22. Specific Expression

Unit 23. Non-Technical Specialised Language

Unit 24. Translator Education

Bibliography

Appendix 1. Approach Survey

Appendix 2. American-English Survey

Appendix 3. Overall Survey

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612160431

9781282160439

1282160435

9789027295460

9027295468

OCLC:

70773950