Luận Văn A study on terminology in translating pharmaceutical from English into Vietnamese

Khóa luận tốt nghiệp năm 2012
Đề tài: A study on terminology in translating pharmaceutical from English into Vietnamese


TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
PART I: INTRODUCTION . 1
1. Rationale of the study 2
2. Aims of the study . 3
3. Scope of the study 3
4. Method of the study . 3
5. Design of the study 4
PART II: DEVELOPMENT 5
CHAPTER I: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND . 5
I. Definition of translation 5
II. Types of translation . 7
II.1 Word to word . 7
II.2 Literal translation 8
II.3 Faithful translation 8
II.4 Semantic translation 8
II.5 Free translation 9
II.6 Adaption 9
II.7 Idiomatic translation 9
II.8 Some well-known translation procedures 10
II.9 Communicative translation 10
III. Equivalence in translation 11
IV. ESP in translation 12
IV.1 Concept 12
IV.2 Types of ESP . 13
IV.3 Definition of technical translation . 15
V. Terminology and Pharmaceutical terms 15
1. Definition of English terms 16
2. Characteristics of terms 17
2.1. Accurateness . 17
2.2. Systematism 17
2.3. Internationalism 18
2.4. Nationalism . 18
2.5. Popularity 19
3. The creation of terminology . 19
4. The distinction terms & words . 20
5. Terms in pharmaceutical field . 20
5.1. Definition 20
5.2. Classification of pharmaceutical (medicine) terms 21
5.2.1. Single terms 21
5.2.2. Compound terms 22
CHAPTER II: SOME STRATEGIES APPLIED IN TRANSLATION OF SOME
COMMON PHARMACEUTICAL TERMS . 25
I. The strategy applied in translation of single terms . 25
I.1. Recognized translation 25
I.1.1 General single term .26
I.1.2 Single terms with suffixes ―er‖, ―or‖, ―tion . 26
I.1.3 Paraphrasing translation 27
II.The strategies applied in translation of compound terms 27
II.1 Shift or transposition translation . 27
II.1.1 Automatic translation . 27
II.1.1.2 Rank-shift translation 32
II.1.1.3 Translation by omission . 32
II.1.1.4 Translation by paraphrase using related words . 33
II.1.1.5 Translation by using a loan word . 34
CHAPTER III. IMPLICATION 37
I. Some problems in translation process 37
I.1. Misunderstanding . 37
I.2. Difficulties 38
II. Some suggestions to solve the problems . 39
PART III. CONCLUSION . 40
REFERENCES 41
APPENDIX . 42


PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Rationale of the study
No one denies the importance of English language in the present time as a
global language. Moreover, English appears in all fields of human life such as:
business, education, health-care, culture, economy, e-commerce, medicine and
aviation. In addition, it is the language which is used in the pharmaceutical. From a
thousand of years ago drugs preparation and treatment had become a necessity of
human life; until now it become more and more important . Together with the
dramatical development of international pharmaceutical, Viet Nam has obtained
remarkable achievements in the past few years. With rich and attractive natural
resources, long-existing culture and sustainable economy, Viet Nam has a lot of
potentials to develop pharmaceutical. With more than 84 million people, the
development of the pharmaceutical industry is an indispensable and worthy of
attention in Vietnam. Currently, Vietnam drug market is mainly supplied by two
main sources which are domestic and imported drugs from foreign country. In
recent years, the pharmaceutical industry in the country has made remarkable
progress. According to Drugs Administration Vietnam the growth rate of the
industry is 12% per year. Domestic production meets the demand over 50% of
people using drugs. The sector strives domestic production to meet 62% of the
value of drugs in 2012 and 70% in 2015.However, there is a number of
Vietnamese learners encounterring troubles in translating terminology in
pharmaceutical; certainly face difficulties in the translation processing due to not
only the variety of Vietnamese and English words, the differences of using specific
English words but also more and more appearances of new terms in human
activities. That is the main reason inspiring me to carry out this study. Importantly,
I hope that to some extent my study can offer a thorough understanding about
terminology in pharmaceutical as well as helps Vietnamese in translation of the
term in this field.
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2. Aims of the study
My study aims at:
Introducing theoretical background of translation, terminology, translation
methods.
Giving some strategies applied in translation of terminology in
pharmaceutical.
Pointing out some difficulties, common mistakes in the translation process
made by Vietnamese learners and suggesting some solutions to avoid
misunderstanding when translating it.
3. Scope of the study
Pharmaceutical terms are extremely diversified study. Due to the limitation of
time, knowledge and experiences, I am not ambitious to study all masters of this
theme but only focus on translation theory and g ive some strategies to apply in
translating pharmaceutical terms.
4. Methods of the study
In order to achieve the mentioned aims, in my study process, the following
methods are used:
Data collection: Reading books and reference books about translation, the
Pharmacy terminology dictionary and English Pharmaceutical to establish the
theoretical background for my study, searching books on the internet and
collecting information from foreign websites.
Data analysis: Selecting related document and classifying information in terms of
the aims of the study.
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Comparative and contrastive analysis: Analyzing the above classified
information, arranging the information into the parts of the study.
5. Design of the study
My study is divided into three main parts of which the second one is the most
important.
Part I: Introduction – gives out rationale, aims, scope, methods and design of
the study.
Part II: Development: mentions the main contents of the study and it is
further divided into three chapters as below:
 Chapter I: Theoretical background _ introduces definition of translation,
translation methods.
 Chapter II: Terminology, some analysis, comparison, contrast, point out some
strategies apply in the translation of terminology in Pharmaceutical terms.
 Chapter III: Implication-points out some problems in translation process and
give some suggestions to solve the problems.
Part III: Conclusion
Gives main ideas mentioned in previous parts and some suggestions for
further study.