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Vol. 64:2 (2018) ► pp.250–268

Many roads lead to Rome, and we have found seven

A control mechanism of bilingual scientific texts translations

| Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Through our academic research we developed a control mechanism for translation based on seven variables derived from the studies of the Belgian translatologist Dirk Delabastita. In this paper we implement the control mechanism for translation in the fields of solid waste management and liquid waste mechanics using the academic text-books Handbook of Solid Waste Management and Wastewater Engineering, Treatment and Reuse in order to investigate the quality of translations in Greek. We present an indicative psychometric questionnaire from the initial research conducted with telecommunications scientists, as well as an abstract outlining the processing of the relevant indices, followed by indicative processing in the academic field of environmental engineering. This could be the first step in research for the field of environmental engineering terminology.
Keywords: translation strategies, indices, psychometric tests, technical translation, environmental engineering
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Theoretical framework
    • 2.1Translation as an object of translatology
    • 2.2Translation as an object of special texts studies
  • 3.Research methodology
    • 3.1Research through index study
      • 3.1.1Theoretical framework
      • 3.1.2Index processing
    • 3.2Questionnaire research
      • 3.2.1Presentation and analysis of the questionnaires
      • 3.2.2Presentation of findings
        • 3.2.2.1Term recognition-identification-usage (Figure 1)
        • 3.2.2.2Locating phrase correctness (Figure 2)
        • 3.2.2.3Correct term localization (Figure 3)
  • 4.Research conclusions
  • 5.General conclusions
  • 6.Proposal for the environmental science field
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 1 October 2018
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