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Executing the instructions. An empirical investigation into the usability of technical translations done by trainees
Orlando, Daniele
2014
Abstract
This paper reports the results of a longitudinal empirical study on the acquisition
of translation competence as concerns technical translation. The study comprised
the assignment of two different translations of a number of extracts from
a snowmobile service manual administered to translator trainees at an interval
of a month. The first task was followed by a seminar on technical translation focused
on a genre analysis of instructional documents and aimed at providing
guidelines to produce better translations. On the basis of the relevant literature
and the analysis of a small-scale corpus of automotive instruction manuals originally
written in Italian, the target texts were assessed in terms of syntactic structure
and Iconic Linkage. Finally, a relation between the translations’ usability and
their overall quality is investigated.
Series
Rivista internazionale di tecnica della traduzione = International Journal of Translation
15
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Daniele Orlando, "Executing the instructions. An empirical investigation into the usability of technical translations done by trainees", in: "Rivista internazionale di tecnica della traduzione = International Journal of Translation n.15 - 2013", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, pp. 109-127
Languages
en
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