Open AccessON SOME PARTICULAR CASES OF TRANSLATION AND SELF-TRANSLATION
Author(s) -
Dafina Kostadinova
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ezikov svât/ezikov svât
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2603-4026
pISSN - 1312-0484
DOI - 10.37708/ezs.swu.v17.i2.9
Subject(s) - bulgarian , computer science , translation studies , linguistics , dynamic and formal equivalence , machine translation , translation (biology) , process (computing) , field (mathematics) , machine translation software usability , natural language processing , example based machine translation , artificial intelligence , programming language , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , mathematics , messenger rna , pure mathematics , gene
e article briefly discusses some of the fundamental principles of the theory and practice of translation, specialized translation, machine translation, self-translation and English for specific purposes with the aim to present and analyze some particular cases of self-translated texts for specific purposes produced by SWU lecturers. Since the volume of an article does not allow a detailed text with numerous examples, I have selected and focused only on three samples from a larger investigation conducted among SWU lecturers who write their academic articles in Bulgarian first, and then, translate them in the English language. The investigation revealed that in the process of translation the authors tend to use machine translation and to restate the original Bulgarian text which led to the conclusion that these are examples of self-translation of scientific texts. This issue has been paid little attention by professionals in the field of translation and language studies and it seems that nowadays examples of self-translation will be observed more and more frequently due to the highly globalized world we live in and the dynamic need to communicate, receive and deliver scientific knowledge, discoveries, novelties, etc. It is an undisputable fact that generally this communication and exchange of information is held in English.