Open AccessDIAGNOSING MEDICAL TRANSLATION AND FRAMING CURRENT CHALLENGES
Author(s) -
Mihai Robert RUSU,
Titela VÎLCEANU
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
the international conference "synergies in communication"
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
eISSN - 2668-9375
pISSN - 2284-6654
DOI - 10.24818/sic/2021/02.03
Subject(s) - terminology , multidisciplinary approach , computer science , framing (construction) , data science , translation (biology) , linguistics , sociology , engineering , social science , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , structural engineering , messenger rna , gene
Specialised translation includes technical and scientific translation as research fields in their own right, on account of method, text type, purpose of translating and degree of specialisation. Being a borderline case between technical and scientific translation, medical translation requires a multidisciplinary approach. Admittedly, the paper focuses on shedding light on the complexity of medical translation, the medical translator facing as main challenges a vast range of texts and formats (even within the same sub-field of medicine), non-standardised terminology (continuing to evolve as aligned to new scientific discoveries), a lack of relevant resources (most importantly, multilingual medical databases) and the different expectations of the intended users of translation.