Luận Văn A study on how to translate related terms in business administration from English into Vietnamese

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Đề tài: A study on how to translate related terms in business administration from English into Vietnamese

TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Pages
PART I. INTRODUCTION . 1
1. Reason of the study . 1
2. Scope of the study . 2
3. Aim of the study 2
4. Methods of the study . 2
5. Design of the study. 3
PART II. DEVELOPMENT . 4
CHAPTER ONE: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND . 4
I. TRANSLATION THEORY. 4
I.1 Definitions of translation . 4
I.2. Types of translation 5
I.3. Translation equivalence: . 7
I.3.1. Definitions of equivalence in translation: 7
I.3.2. Types of equivalence in translation . 8
II. TRANSLATION OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION TERMS. . 8
II.1. ESP in translation. . 8
II.1.1. Definition of ESP . 8
II.1.2.Types of ESP . 9
II.2. TERM . 10
II.2.1. Definitions of term . 10
II.2.2.The characteristics of term 11
II.2.2.1.Business Administration EBE terms translation 12
CHAPTER TWO: AN INVESTIGATION ON BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
TERMS AND THEIR VIETNAMESE EQUIVALENCES . 14
I. Typical Terms related to company and types of business: . 14
I.1. Company . 14
I.2. Types of a business . 14
II. Typical terms related to personnel management 18
II.1. People and position . 18
II.2.Power in Business Administration . 23
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II.3 Personnel advertisement and recruiting . 24
II.4. Training and developing personnel . 26
II.5. Salary and benefit policies . 28
III .Typical terms related to production . 30
III.1. Production . 30
III.2. Cost of product . 31
IV .Typical terms related to business finance policy . 34
IV.1 Asset and capital . 34
IV.2. Income and expenditure . 35
V .Abbreviations 37
VI .Exercises for applying the translation of terms related to BA from
English into Vietnamese . 41
CHAPTER THREE: MAIN FINDINGS 48
I. Difficulties in translation of BA term 48
II. Suggestions for better translation 48
PART III: CONCLUSION . 50
APPENDIX 52
REFERENCES 57


PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Reasons of the study:
In the development history of human beings, the economic
development has been considered the most important factor. It shows power
and status of a country over the world. Therefore, economic development is
the central concern in all countries including Vietnam. To achieve a strong
and stable economy, it is very necessary to get good leaders of business in
each country. Apart from their own experiences in business, the leaders also
need to equip themselves with the knowledge of management. The translating
Business Administration terms from English into Vietnamese helps learners
and researchers easily approach the useful foreign documents of the Business
Administration in particular as well as the economics in general.
The study on translating Business Administration terms helps learners
of economics major easily approach the useful foreign economics documents.
Business Administration is not a quite new field in Vietnam; nowadays, it
becomes a main major in many universities. However, in comparison to the
developed countries such as English, America, ect; in Vietnam, Business
Administration is at younger age in both skills and experience of
management. Therefore, it is essential to research and learn Business
Administration. Many people encounter troubles in researching documents
related to Business Administration because all the useful documents are
written in foreign language (mainly English). In the integration with global
economy, English is used broadly in companies to serve for activities of
business such as transaction, marketing, ect. Therefore, study of translating
Business Administration terms is more important. Besides, it also helps me
get the basic knowledge of Business Administration in particular as well as
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economics in general and makes me more confident and helps me have more
chance to choose and find a good job in the future.
In conclusion, study on translating of BA terms from English into
Vietnamese is very important. Moreover, I could have more thorough
knowledge and understanding about English for Business and Economic
translation in general and translation of Business Administration in particular.
2. Scope of the study:
BA terms lie in a system of English for specific purposes (ESP) of
English for Business and economic. To translate and study these terms, it
requires the learners to have to invest a great volume of time. However, due to
the limitation of time and knowledge of BA, I could not cover all aspects of
this theme. I only focus on studying on translating of BA terms by referring
terms related to BA, its concepts and its equivalence meaning in Vietnamese.
I hope that this study partly provides readers with overall comprehension
about translating terms related to BA and helps the students as well as
researchers of BA major translate it effectively.
3. Aim of the study:
This graduation paper is studied to help learners widen their knowledge
of vocabulary in Business Administration, especially in deeply understanding
the concept of Business Administration terms. From that, the learner s could
have general understanding about translating these terms.
4. Methods of the study:
During the research process I did some works to serve for writing this
theme such as:
o Collecting and presenting the Basic English terms in Business
Administration.
o Analyzing and classifying these terms into groups.
o Finding the concepts of these terms and their equivalence meaning in
Vietnamese.
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o Giving some exercises to apply for translating these terms.
To get the exactly information, I also used the reference books, internet,
and Oxford business English dictionary.
I hope that this study partly helps learners deal with the problem of
translating BA terms.
5. Design of the study:
My graduation paper is divided into three parts, of which the second part is
the most important.
 Part I is the introduction. This part includes reasons of the study,
aim of the study, scope of the study, methods of the study, design of the
study.
 Part II is the development. This part includes three chapters:
Chapter one is the theoretical background which focuses on
definitions, methods, procedures of translation in general and ESP translation
in particular, EBE (English for Business and economic) terms translation.
Chapter two is the investigation on business administration terms and
their Vietnamese equivalences and exercises are given to apply for translating
BA terms.
Chapter three: Main findings
 Part three: Conclusion.


PART II: DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER ONE: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
I. TRANSLATION THEORY.
I.1 Definitions of translation:
First of all, we can realize that translation has an important role in the
developing process of each country. Through translating, people could
selectively learn and absorb the quintessences of other countries in all
cultural, economic, scientific, technological fields. Therefore, translation has
great contribution to human civilization. Awareness of translation importance,
many writers has written about the definitions of translation. In this paper, the
concepts of translation have been collected as follows:
“Translation is the expression in another language (target language) of
what has been expressed in one language (source language), preserving
semantic and stylistic equivalencies.” (By Bell R.T. ,1991).
“Translation is the replacement of a representation of a text in one
language by a representation of an equivalent text in a second language.” (By
Bell, R.T. ,1991).
“Translation is rending a written text into another language in a way
that the author intended the text.” (By Bui Tien Bao-Hanoi National
University).
All above definitions also show that translation consists of transferring the
meaning of the source language into the receptor language. Translation consists
of studying the lexicon, grammar structure, communication situation, and
cultural context of a source language text, analyzing it to determine its meaning,
then reconstructing this same meaning using the lexicon, grammar structure
which is appropriate in the receptor language and its cultural context.
I.2. Types of translation:


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