Luận Văn A study on the translation of English important diplomatic terms in diplomacy documents

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Đề tài: A study on the translation of English important diplomatic terms in diplomacy documents


TABLE OF CONTENT
Acknowledgement
PART I: INTRODUCTION 1
1. Rationale of the study 1
2. Scope of the study 1
3. Method of the study . 2
4. Aims of the study . 2
5. Design of the study 2
PART II: DEVELOPMENT 4
Chapter I: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND . 4
1. Translation . 4
1.1. Definition 4
1.2. Equivalence in translation . 5
1.3. Types of translation 7
2. ESP in translation . 9
2.1. Concepts of ESP . 9
2.2. Types of ESP . 10
3. Diplomacy 11
3.1. Definition 11
3.2. Language in diplomacy . 13
3.3. Any important types of diplomacy documents . 13
4. Term and its concept 15
Chapter II: TERMS IN DIPLOMACY DOCUMENTS 16
1. Types of diplomacy terms and their Vietnamese equivalences . 16
1.1. Compound words 16
1.2. Single words 25
1.3. Acronyms 36
1.4. Loan words 38
2. Some important requirements of diplomatic terms . 42
2.1. Popularity 42
2.2. Accuracy . 43
2.3. Formality . 43
2.4. Balance 44
2.5. Appropriateness 45
Chapter III: HOW TO EFFECTIVELIVELY TRANSLATE ENGLISH
DIPLOMATIC TERMS INTO VIETNAMESE 46
1. Difficulties in translating English diplomatic terms 46
1.1. Difficulties in determining term’s meaning in each situation 46
1.2. Difficulties in finding equivalent words between original and
translated texts, and understanding loan words . 46
1.3. Difficulties in Arrangement of diplomacy documents . 47
2. Recommendations 47
Part III: CONCLUSION 49
References . 50
Glossary 52


PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Rationale
At the dawn of human kind, when Nations and their States have not been
established yet, Diplomacy had appeared inspire of not having particular features
of modern one. Actually, according to the simple concept, Diplomacy can also
known as “Public communication”. In order to exchange and transfer goods,
each ancient tribe has to negotiate with others, so this action can be considered
as “diplomatic tasks”. Nowadays, Diplomacy plays a more and more important
role in social life, it’s not only the special task of one nation, but also all over the
world, Diplomacy can be the main factor deciding the survival of each nation.
Understanding the role of Diplomacy, all nations worldwide always
concern with it, try their best to complete diplomatic tasks successfully. Thanks
to a good diplomatic branch, Vietnam had a more and more important position in
the world, constantly enhancing, contribut ing so much to international
Organizations and Forums.
In the period of training during the past, when working at Hai Phong
Department of foreign Affairs, I had chance of contacting and completing any
diplomatic tasks, so I felt that diplomacy really is an attracting field, and want to
become a professional diplomat in the future. In order to have more knowledge
and experiences on aspect of diplomacy, I decided to choose this topic to study
on, which can be useful for my future career.
2. Scope of the Study
Because of timeframe’s limitation and my narrow knowledge, in this
research, I can only introduce some popular important diplomatic terms, and
accepted by the general diplomacy rules.
I hope that my research may be the necessary reference for teachers and
students of foreign language Department, as well as people who are also
interested in diplomatic aspects.
3. Method of the Study
The main methods of this study:
- Contrastive and comparative analysis on English diplomatic terms
- Diplomatic term collection
- Discussion
- Consulting with the supervisor and people working in Diplomatic field.
4. Aims
 Stating the concepts Diplomacy.
 Explaining the importance of Diplomacy in reality.
 Introducing & analyzing the important diplomatic terms and the
ways to use them effectively.
5. Design of the Study
The research has 3 parts:
 Part I is the introduction, after that Rationale, scopes, methods,
aims, and organization of the study will be displayed.
 Part II is the development
Chapter 1: Definition
Translation
ESP in translation
Diplomacy
Concept of Terms in general
Chapter 2: Introduce English diplomatic terms
Classifying diplomatic terms, and finding their Vietnamese
equivalence
Chapter 3: Difficulties and Recommendations for translating the Terms.
 Part III Conclusion – stating the whole summary of the study


PART II : DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER I: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
1. TRANSLATION.
1.1. Definitions
Translation “is the process of changing something that is written or
spoken into another language”.
(Advanced Oxford Dictionary)
Translation” is the transformation of a text originally in one language
into an equivalent in the content of the message and the formal features and the
roles of the original”.
(Bell,1991)
Translation “is a text with qualities of equivalence to a prior text in
another language, such that the new text is taken as a substitute for the original”.
(David Frank - Wordpress.com)
Translation is rendering the meaning of a text into another language in
the way that author intended the text
(Newmark - 1988)
Translation consists of reproducing in the receptor language the closest
natural equivalent of the source language message, first in terms of meaning and
secondly in terms of style
(Nida – 1984:83)
Translation is a bilingual mediated process of communication which
ordinarily aims at the production of a target language text that is functionally
equivalent to a source language text
(Reiss, 1971:161)
Translation is the replacement of text material of this language (source
language) with text material of another ( target language).
(Cartford, 1965 : 20)
Translation is the process of finding a Target language equivalent for a
Source language utterance.
(Pinhhuck, 1977 : 38)
Translation is a transfer process, which aims at the transformation of a
written SL text into an optimally equivalent TL text, and which requires the
syntactic, the semantic and the pragmatic understanding and analytical
processing of the SL.
(Wilss, 1982: 3)
In general,the goal of translation is to establish a relation of equivalence of
intent between the source and target texts (that is to say, to ensure that both texts
communicate the same message), while taking into account a number of
constraints. These constraints include context, the rules of grammar of both
languages, their writing conventions, their idioms, and the like.
1.2. Types of Translation
There are 8 types of translation as below:
1.2.1. Word For Word Translation: The source language word order is
preserved and the words translated by their most common meanings. Cultural
words are translated literally. The main use of this type of translation is either to
understand the mechanics of the source language or to construe a difficult text as
pre-translation process.
Eg: He is a big liar - Anh ta là một lớn nói dối


REFERENCES
BOOKS
 English
1. Ordudari, M (2004). “Good Translation: Art, Craft, or Science?”
University of Esfahan, Iran .
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Reality”.
3. Dudley-Evans, Tony (1998). Developments in English for Specific
Purposes: A multi-disciplinary approach. Cambridge University Press.
(Forthcoming)
4. Hutchinson, Tom & Waters, Alan (1987). English for Specific Purposes:
A learner-centered approach. Cambridge University Press.
5. Newmark, P. (1988a), A Textbook of Translation. Hertfordshire: Prentice
Hall.
6. Newmark, P. (1988), Textbook of Translation. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
 Vietnamese
7. Dương Văn Quảng, Từ điển chuyên ngành Ngoại Giao- NXB Thế giới
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