A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF TRANSLATION DICTIONARIES OF FIRE-TECHNICAL TERMS (BASED ON GERMAN AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGES)

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 64-70
Author(s):  
O. SHMELEVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Content ◽  
Technical Vocabulary ◽  
Technical Terms

This paper provides a brief overview of Russian printed dictionaries of fire-technical terminology based on the material of German and Russian languages. The mega-, macro- and microstructure of the analyzed dictionaries are described, their information content is evaluated. It is concluded that it is necessary to form an electronic terminological base for fire-technical vocabulary based on these languages. The author has also presented her ideas about further prospects for the compilating bilingual terminological dictionaries in this area.

scholarly journals Learning and Retaining Technical Vocabulary with Enhancement Activities in an ESP Course

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Liju Xu
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Technical Vocabulary ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Group A ◽  
Group B ◽  
Knowledge Scale ◽  
Technical Terms

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effectiveness of vocabulary enhancement activities on vocabulary learning in an ESP course. In designing the activities, technical terms on journal entries were chosen for the acquisition of language necessary for the successful implementation of accounting major’s professional tasks. The desirable difficulty approach and the four strands principle，focused input, meaning-focused output, language-focused learning and fluency development, were guidelines in combining subject matter and English language learning. To test the result of the activities, the Vocabulary Knowledge Scale was employed to measure students’ knowledge of 50 vocabulary items. Subjects of the ESP course in discussion comprised 200 accounting juniors in Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in China. Half of them in Group A read the texts and did matching exercises and translation exercises. The other half in Group B read the texts and practiced journal entry activity, targeting at accounting concepts and terminologies. The results revealed that Group B gained better results than Group A at a post-test. After the test a reflection on the vocabulary activities was gathered among the participants of Group B. The feedback further proved that the students did benefit from the enhancement activities on selected technical terms.

Some Features of the Old Castilian Alfonsine Translation of ʿAlī Ibn Khalaf’s Treatise on the Lámina Universal

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-5) ◽  
pp. 106-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilia Calvo
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Grammatical Structure ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Technical Vocabulary ◽  
Scientific Circle ◽  
Astronomical Instrument ◽  
Technical Terms

Abstract The aim of the paper is to present some features of the treatise on the lámina universal, an astronomical instrument devised by ʿAlī ibn Khalaf, an eleventh-century Andalusi mathematician and astronomer who belonged to the scientific circle of Ṣāʿid al- Andalusī. ʿAlī ibn Khalaf was a contemporary of Ibn al-Zarqālluh (al-Zarqālī, Azarquiel), also a mathematician and astronomer working under Ṣāʿid’s patronage, and the inven- tor of the instrument known as azafea. Both instruments, the lámina universal and the azafea, are universal instruments devised to overcome the limitations of the standard astrolabe. The only text describing ʿAlī ibn Khalaf’s instrument is the thirteenth- century old-Castilian Alfonsine translation, which has not been studied in detail up to now, although some preliminary studies have been published. The present study deals with some linguistic and technical difficulties of the text. In many passages, it seems to follow literally the grammatical structure of the Arabic language while in others, the lack of technical terms forced the translators to resort either to a literal transcription of the original Arabic terminology or, in some cases, to approximate translations that make the text somewhat difficult to follow. The paper provides additional information related mainly to the astronomical parameters and the technical vocabulary used in the translation.

scholarly journals CLASSIFICATION OF COLOUR –BASED METAPHORICAL TERMS

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Larisa Iljinska ◽  
Marina Platonova
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Technical Vocabulary ◽  
Technical Terms

The nature of the contemporary technical text has been changing. Traditional conventions of technical text production are not strictly observed, and the boundaries between styles and genres are becoming blurred. The tendencies in the development of technical text have caused changes in the development of technical vocabulary, initiating the on-going process of metaphorization and an extension of meaning of the existing and newly created terms.The present article mainly aims at the analysis of the tendency for metaphorization of technical terms and at the elaboration of the classification of the colour-based metaphorical terms. The pattern of the colour-based term creation is frequently applied to denote the emerging concepts. The complicated mechanisms underlying the processes of meaning formation, extension or compression are illustrated in the article considering the colour-based ESP terms in English and their possible translation into Latvian.

Buchmalerei

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Jakobi-Mirwald
Keyword(s):  
Reference Book ◽  
Technical Vocabulary ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Technical Terms

The illustrated reference book on the terminology of book illumination is published in the fourth, revised edition. Christine Jakobi-Mirwald explains the rich technical vocabulary briefly and clearly. The drawings offer the possibility to search for terms for certain formal appearances – such as initials or ornaments. If necessary, foreign words receive an etymological breakdown and an extensive multilingual directory summarizes the most important technical terms.

Measuring the degree of specialisation of sub-technical legal terms through corpus comparison

Terminology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-102
Author(s):  
María José Marín Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Network Model ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Measuring Method ◽  
Word Families ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
Technical Vocabulary ◽  
Technical Terms ◽  
Legal Meaning

One of the most remarkable features of the legal English lexicon is the use of sub-technical vocabulary, that is, words frequently shared by the general and specialised fields which either retain a legal meaning in general English or acquire a specialised one in the legal context. As testing has shown, almost 50% of the terms extracted from BLaRC, an 8.85m word legal corpus, were found amongst the most frequent 2,000 word families of West’s (1953) GSL, Coxhead’s (2000) AWL or the BNC (2007), hence the relevance of this type of vocabulary in this English variety. Owing to their peculiar statistical behaviour in both contexts, it is particularly problematic to identify them and measure their termhood based on such parameters as their frequency or distribution in the general and specialised environments. This research proposes a novel termhood measuring method intended to objectively quantify this lexical phenomenon through the application of Williams’ (2001) lexical network model, which incorporates contextual information to compute the level of specialisation of sub-technical terms.

scholarly journals LANGUAGE SKILLS, SUB-SKILLS AND VOCABULARIES NEEDED BY AUTOMOTIVE DEPARTMENT STUDENTS OF TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL: A NEED ANALYSIS STUDY

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-75
Author(s):  
Surya Lestari ◽  
Syahrial Syahrial ◽  
Bambang Suwarno
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Work Place ◽  
The Third ◽  
Need Analysis ◽  
Technical Vocabulary ◽  
Swing Arm ◽  
Water Cooling System ◽  
Technical Terms

This study aimed to analyze specific English language skills and kind of technical vocabulary that are needed by the third year automotive students of SMKN 2 Kota Bengkulu. The sample for interview comprised of 12 alumni, they were teachers and various company officers who have a MOU with SMKN 2 Kota Bengkulu. In the interview was used saturation sample. The results of interview with alumni indicate that the English skill most needed in the workplace is reading, the second was speaking, the third was writing and the last place was listening. The automotive students/ alumni need to comprehend the technical terms associated with technical terms in English. Related to car, are kick lever, oil pump, water cooling system, trail and rolling roof. Related to heavy machine are rear body offset, over hung, road clearance, light van and rear engine. Related to motorcycle are swing arm, bottom link fork, drum brake and kick starter. General automotive vocabulary are disc brake, gasoline, head lamp, piston and tire. Mastery of technical terms greatly affect the practice of industrial work (prakerin) of students in the work place.

A Bamana Commentary on Sūrat al-Wāqiʿa (Q. 56): A Linguistic and Stylistic Analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tal Tamari
Keyword(s):  
West African ◽  
Read Aloud ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Religious Instruction ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
African Languages ◽  
Substantive Content ◽  
Technical Vocabulary ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Technical Terms

Among the Manding and other long-Islamised peoples of West Africa, advanced religious instruction is based on the oral translation of Arabic books into a local language; the Qur'an may, furthermore, be interpreted in a ceremonial setting in Ramaḍān. This article discusses some of the most important linguistic, stylistic and content features of West African oral tafsīr as exemplified by a Bamana commentary collected near Segu, Mali, in 1998 (Bamana being one of the several closely related Manding languages). The Qur'anic text is parsed into meaningful segments as it is read aloud, each segment being immediately followed by its rendering in Bamana, and in some instances, also by ampler explanations in this language. Manding scholarly language is characterised both by specific syntactic structures and a specialised, technical vocabulary – constituted in part by Arabic loanwords and a set of key technical terms drawn from and shared by several African languages, but primarily of words created from Manding roots through compounding and/or derivation, or through attribution of specialised meanings to existing terms. The Bamana discourse transcribed and translated here is remarkable for its style, which draws on several of the rhetorical resources of this language, including culturally meaningful images, onomatopoeia and a high incidence of derived terms. Its substantive content is largely based on the Tafsīr al-Jalālayn and its meta-commentary by Aḥmad al-Ṣāwī (d. 1825).

Vocabulary Needs of Engineering Students: A Survey

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noraini Husin ◽  
Sarimah Shamsudin ◽  
Amerrudin Abd. Manan
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Subject Matter Expert ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Tertiary Institution ◽  
Technical Vocabulary ◽  
Technical Terms

There is substantial amount of technical vocabulary that new engineering students at the tertiary level are required to read and understand in their field of study. Technical vocabulary refers not to a single word but to a group of terms used to explain scientific processes and relations. This means that in the field of engineering, a scientific field, many technical terms are used. These terms may pose some difficulties to the students when reading engineering textbooks, so here seems to be a need to familiarize them with engineering terms to facilitate reading of those textbooks. In order to develop this specialist list of engineering terms, a group of 7 engineering lecturers were interviewed to find out the students’ vocabulary needs through the seven subject matter expert perspectives. In addition, a survey was carried out on a group of 318 engineering students in a tertiary institution. The survey aims to find out the needs of engineering students for a list of introductory engineering terminology. This paper will therefore present the results of the survey.

scholarly journals Exploring learners’ understanding of technical vocabulary in Traditional Chinese Medicine

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-101
Author(s):  
Cailing Lu ◽  
Frank Boers ◽  
Averil Coxhead
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Word List ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Word Associations ◽  
Technical Vocabulary ◽  
Technical Terms ◽  
The Way

This study explores English for specific purposes learners’ understanding of technical words in a previously-developed technical word list in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The principal aim was to estimate what kind of technical terms pose problems to TCM learners and might therefore merit special attention in instruction. Of particular interest was the question whether there is a divergence in the understanding of technical vocabulary in TCM between Chinese and Western background learners. To achieve these aims, a combination of word association tasks and retrospective interviews was implemented with 11 Chinese and 10 Western background TCM learners. The data showed that both Chinese and Western learners encountered certain difficulties in understanding technical vocabulary in their study. However, their sources of difficulty were different. Comparisons of typical word associations between Chinese and Western learners indicated that there was a degree of divergence in the way these two participant groups understood TCM terms.

Technical terminology: some linguistic properties and an algorithm for identification in text

1995 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Justeson ◽  
Slava M. Katz
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Technical Vocabulary ◽  
Technical Terms

AbstractThis paper identifies some linguistic properties of technical terminology, and uses them to formulate an algorithm for identifying technical terms in running text. The grammatical properties discussed are preferred phrase structures: technical terms consist mostly of noun phrases containing adjectives, nouns, and occasionally prepositions; rerely do terms contain verbs, adverbs, or conjunctions. The discourse properties are patterns of repetition that distinguish noun phrases that are technical terms, especially those multi-word phrases that constitute a substantial majority of all technical vocabulary, from other types of noun phrase.The paper presents a terminology indentification algorithm that is motivated by these linguistic properties. An implementation of the algorithm is described; it recovers a high proportion of the technical terms in a text, and a high proportaion of the recovered strings are vaild technical terms. The algorithm proves to be effective regardless of the domain of the text to which it is applied.

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