APPROACHES IN TRANSLATING NOUN PHRASES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING TEXTS
APPROACHES IN TRANSLATING NOUN PHRASES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING TEXTS

Summary/Abstract: The article presents, investigates and analyses a series of aspects related to the difficulties that a translator faces when translating specialized texts, more specifically texts belonging to civil engineering. The issues that arise during the process of translation are multiple and complex and involve different levels of the text. Out of these difficulties, the morphological ones are of special importance. As a sub-category of morphological aspects, noun phrases need to be paid particular attention, both due to their length and to the complex relationships that are formed within the same noun phrase. An important concept connected to noun phrases is that of nominalization and the way it helps build meaning inside nominal compounds. The last part of the article explains and examines the way in which these noun phrases are rendered into the target text.

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