Terminological Shift in Academic Translation: Descriptive Study Based on Processing Manuscripts

doi:10.12339/j.issn.1673-8578.2023.02.007

Abstract

Abstract:

Terminology is an important representation of the professionalism of academic discourses. The faithful reproduction of the source text’s terminology has remained focal in terminology translation studies, which seldom addressed the shift of terminology, flexible translation of the source text’s terminologies. Based on the processing manuscripts of three books from Collected Translations of Belt and Road Studies, this paper described the translators’ terminological shift. It’s found that terminological shifts includes terminological attenuation and intensification; terminological attenuation is realized by paraphrasing and commonization, while terminological attenuation by condensing, creation, and borrowing; the former’s larger number than the latter justifies the hypothesis of explication; and a comparative analysis of the translator’s translation manuscript with the editor’s proofreading manuscript indicates that the editors didn’t impose any substantive interference with the translators’ terminological attenuation or terminological intensification, which reveals the initiative of the translators’ terminology translation.

Key words: terminological translation, terminological transformation, terminological attenuation, terminological intensification

CLC Number: (术语学)

ZHENG Jianwei. Terminological Shift in Academic Translation: Descriptive Study Based on Processing Manuscripts[J]. China Terminology, 2023, 25(2): 51-55.

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序号	原文	译文	翻译方法	编辑处理
《社会转型》
1	Subjective structures are...the embodiments of sociocultural rules.	主观结构……是社会文化规则的体现。[共3处]	普通化	[无修改]
2	Habitus is another relation of embodied social rules and norms.	惯习是具体社会规则和规范的另一种关系。[共2处]	普通化	[无修改]
3	Practice is embodied social knowledge.	实践是社会知识的体现。	普通化	[无修改]
4	Habitus is a “durable yet transposable set of embodied dispositions and competencies...”	惯习是一种“持久但可转变具体化倾向和能力……”	普通化	[无修改]
5	While Bourdieu discusses the embodiment of social norms	当布尔迪厄在讨论社会规范的具体体现时	释义	[删除]“在”
《欧俄关系》
1	facilitated rapprochement between the EU and Russia	为欧盟与俄罗斯之间修好关系提供了方便	释义	[无修改]
2	The Russian government’s intransigence	俄罗斯不妥协的态度	释义	[无修改]
3	a normative gap developed between the EU and Russia	欧盟与俄罗斯之间在确立何种规范的问题上形成了差距	释义	“形成了差距” [改为] “产生了分歧”
4	political conditionality	政治条件限制[共3处]	普通化	[无修改]
5	reluctance to demonopolise its gas sector	不愿意放弃天然气行业的垄断	释义	[无修改]
《长期视角》
1	Shaping the Longue Durée of the Forest	森林的长期形成过程[共17处]	普通化	[无修改]
2	the soil is deep and moisture-retentive	土壤很深,能有效保持水分	释义	[无修改]
3	Europeans changed fire regimes	欧洲人……改变了火灾的发生	释义	[后增加] “情况”
4	Taking a more biocentric approach	采取更倾向于生物中心的方法	释义	[无修改]
5	high female celibacy	大量独身女性的存在	释义	[无修改]

序号	原文	译文	翻译方法	编辑处理
《社会转型》
1	Subjective structures are...the embodiments of sociocultural rules.	主观结构……是社会文化规则的体现。[共3处]	普通化	[无修改]
2	Habitus is another relation of embodied social rules and norms.	惯习是具体社会规则和规范的另一种关系。[共2处]	普通化	[无修改]
3	Practice is embodied social knowledge.	实践是社会知识的体现。	普通化	[无修改]
4	Habitus is a “durable yet transposable set of embodied dispositions and competencies...”	惯习是一种“持久但可转变具体化倾向和能力……”	普通化	[无修改]
5	While Bourdieu discusses the embodiment of social norms	当布尔迪厄在讨论社会规范的具体体现时	释义	[删除]“在”
《欧俄关系》
1	facilitated rapprochement between the EU and Russia	为欧盟与俄罗斯之间修好关系提供了方便	释义	[无修改]
2	The Russian government’s intransigence	俄罗斯不妥协的态度	释义	[无修改]
3	a normative gap developed between the EU and Russia	欧盟与俄罗斯之间在确立何种规范的问题上形成了差距	释义	“形成了差距” [改为] “产生了分歧”
4	political conditionality	政治条件限制[共3处]	普通化	[无修改]
5	reluctance to demonopolise its gas sector	不愿意放弃天然气行业的垄断	释义	[无修改]
《长期视角》
1	Shaping the Longue Durée of the Forest	森林的长期形成过程[共17处]	普通化	[无修改]
2	the soil is deep and moisture-retentive	土壤很深,能有效保持水分	释义	[无修改]
3	Europeans changed fire regimes	欧洲人……改变了火灾的发生	释义	[后增加] “情况”
4	Taking a more biocentric approach	采取更倾向于生物中心的方法	释义	[无修改]
5	high female celibacy	大量独身女性的存在	释义	[无修改]

序号	原文	译文	翻译方法	编辑处理
《社会转型》
1	theory that is grounded in words and actions of those individuals under study	以研究对象的言行为基础的理论	浓缩	无修改
2	ethnicity is a ‘we feeling’	而民族,也称“同群感”	创造	无修改
《欧俄关系》
1	the country which chairs the European Union	欧盟轮值主席国	浓缩	无修改
2	to act as envoy in the mediations	担任调解特使	浓缩	无修改
《长期视角》
1	to reflect on what our discipline is about	反思自己的行事原则	浓缩	无修改
2	Pressure on resistant tree species only diminished	抗蚁性树种	创造	无修改
3	Few named likenesses of Indonesian individuals	很少有印尼人的具名肖像画	创造	无修改
4	to calm the liver and clear the vision	平肝明目	浓缩	无修改
5	Portraits, scenes of small groups, rural and city views are...“painted opinion”	肖像、小群体的场景、乡村和城市的景色都是“画意”	借用	无修改

序号	原文	译文	翻译方法	编辑处理
《社会转型》
1	theory that is grounded in words and actions of those individuals under study	以研究对象的言行为基础的理论	浓缩	无修改
2	ethnicity is a ‘we feeling’	而民族,也称“同群感”	创造	无修改
《欧俄关系》
1	the country which chairs the European Union	欧盟轮值主席国	浓缩	无修改
2	to act as envoy in the mediations	担任调解特使	浓缩	无修改
《长期视角》
1	to reflect on what our discipline is about	反思自己的行事原则	浓缩	无修改
2	Pressure on resistant tree species only diminished	抗蚁性树种	创造	无修改
3	Few named likenesses of Indonesian individuals	很少有印尼人的具名肖像画	创造	无修改
4	to calm the liver and clear the vision	平肝明目	浓缩	无修改
5	Portraits, scenes of small groups, rural and city views are...“painted opinion”	肖像、小群体的场景、乡村和城市的景色都是“画意”	借用	无修改