What is it about?

Viewing the issue of Persian terminological proposition as a compelling need, thisstudy has addressed the vital necessity for adopting a translational approach towards the issue of terminographical work. In this regard, mention can be made of the terminological gaps for such items as synset/synonym set, concordance, superordinate, … . Working on the basis of a theoretically-sustained scenario, translating a text can provide us with a practically authentic path as to how and where to detect the probable terminological gaps in the target specialized discourse, while offering a formula to ultimately provide for such gaps.

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Why is it important?

Special discourses are perceived to cross-lingually suffer from the problem of a lack of one-to-one correspondence with regard to their specialized terminology.This problem turns to be more acute in scientific discourses where a higher load of technical items makes cross-discoursal communication considerably more demanding. An alternative perspective to address the challenge of probable terminographic gaps which might exist within any specialized discourse can be offered by adopting a translational approach.

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Writing this article which has been extracted from my PhD thesis in part provides the answer to the question of how and where to detect the points of terminological gaps in translation and ultimately provide for such terminological gaps. As such, the problem at hand has appeared to afflict the professional translators, me included. I hope this article can provide the readers as well as the practicing translators with a working example on how to tackle with the challenge at hand.

Dr Abbas Mehrpooya
Islamic Azad University, Hamedan Branch

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This page is a summary of: The Challenge of Terminographic Gaps in Translation: A Text-based Approach Put to Practice, Research in Language, June 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.2478/rela-2018-0011.
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