Translating a pandemic: A corpus study of COVID-19 multi-word terminology in EU press releases | Zendy

Aleksandra Tomaszewska | Zendy; Natalia Zawadzka-Paluektau | Zendy

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Translating a pandemic: A corpus study of COVID-19 multi-word terminology in EU press releases

Author(s) -

Aleksandra Tomaszewska,

Natalia Zawadzka-Paluektau

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

beyond philology an international journal of linguistics literary studies and english language teaching

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2451-1498

pISSN - 1732-1220

DOI - 10.26881/bp.2020.4.01

Subject(s) - terminology , variation (astronomy) , covid-19 , linguistics , pandemic , institutionalisation , word (group theory) , political science , history , sociology , philosophy , law , medicine , physics , disease , pathology , astrophysics , infectious disease (medical specialty)

The study employs a parallel English-Polish corpus to investigate how COVID-19 multi-word terms are handled in translations of EU press releases. Translation techniques are examined at four levels of analysis: (1) term variation, (2) institutionalization, (3) domestication/foreignization, and (4) degree of transfer of information. The results are discussed in regard to the characteristics of COVID-19 terminology and its, often neological, instability, which manifests itself in high levels of terminological variation, inconsistent use of recommended institutional equivalents, and varied degrees of information transfer between SL and TL. The findings are also reviewed in light of the nature of press releases which, as an essential link in the transmission of knowledge from EU institutions to citizens, prompt the use of domesticating techniques.

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