Terminological Precision and Linguistic Challenges in Technical Translation

Аннотация

This article explores the distinct features of technical translation in contrast to literary translation, emphasizing the critical role of precision, clarity, and consistency in scientific and technical texts. It highlights the challenges posed by neologisms, polysemy, synonymy, and term creation, and examines the differences in lexical and terminological meanings. The article also analyzes how language-specific sentence structures and the systematic organization of terminology affect translation accuracy. Through examples, it demonstrates the importance of a well-developed terminology system for effective communication and knowledge transfer in science and technology. Mastery of terminology is presented as essential for professional technical translation. Keywords: Technical translation, terminology, neologisms, polysemy, synonymy, lexical meaning, terminological meaning, precision, scientific texts, term creation, language structure, clarity, consistency, semantic analysis, communication. percentage of the overall lexicon. Introduction: The translation of technical literature differs from the translation of literary literature in The translation of technical literature differs from the several distinctive ways. These distinctive features are translation of literary literature in several distinctive primarily related to the specific nature of the language ways. These distinctive features are primarily related to used in technical literature. The main requirements for the specific nature of the language used in technical the language of scientific and technical literature are literature. The main requirements for the language of style, manner of expression, brevity, and the clarity of scientific and technical literature are style, manner of the ideas being conveyed. At the same time, scientific expression, brevity, and the clarity of the ideas being and technical literature is characterized by the use of conveyed. At the same time, scientific and technical specialized terms (and abbreviations), the tradition of literature is characterized by the use of specialized word usage, and the preference for certain syntactic terms (and abbreviations), the tradition of word usage, constructions over others. and the preference for certain syntactic constructions over others. METHODS The presence of a large number of specialized terms in The presence of a large number of specialized terms in the text, especially those that have recently emerged the text, especially those that have recently emerged (neologisms) and have not yet been recorded in (neologisms) and have not yet been recorded in dictionaries, creates significant challenges in the dictionaries, creates significant challenges in the translation process. The richness of scientific and translation process. The richness of scientific and technical literature with new terms is explained by the technical literature with new terms is explained by the fact that the terminology of the language is inherently fact that the terminology of the language is inherently a dynamic layer of the vocabulary. Typically, the a dynamic layer of the vocabulary. Typically, the primary goal of scientific and technical literature is to primary goal of scientific and technical literature is to reflect the latest achievements in science and reflect the latest achievements in science and technology, and neologisms form a relatively large technology, and neologisms form a relatively large American Journal Of Philological Sciences 333 https://theusajournals.com/index.php/ajps American Journal Of Philological Sciences (ISSN – 2771-2273) percentage of the overall lexicon. difficulty when translating technical material. In general, terminology, particularly technical When translating literary works, understanding the text terminology, forms a part of the national language. In in a foreign language generally does not present it, the elliptical nature of expression is especially significant difficulties, and the main issue arises in evident, and this primarily occurs from the perspective recreating the aesthetic and ideological world of the of the requirements for scientific precision and original text in the target language. In contrast, abbreviation. Another key stylistic feature of technical understanding scientific or technical texts in English is literature is the conciseness of the presentation of usually associated with a series of challenges, each material and the fluency of expressions. varying in significance. At the initial stages, the specific features of the foreign language's grammar usually One of the distinctive characteristics of the English present difficulties. As the translator's skill improves, scientific-technical language, and of English in general, grammatical challenges tend to subside; however, is that in it, semantic saturation weakens towards the determining the meanings of unknown terms remains end of a sentence. In Russian, however, the opposite a constant necessity.