Academic Scientific JournalsProblems in medical translation among professional and non-professional translators: Collocations as a key issue
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https://doi.org/10.26881/bp.2019.4.06Keywords:
medical translation, medical collocations, medical language, medical translator, medical registerAbstract
English is currently the lingua franca in medicine, especially due to the development of new terms that combine the medical field with technical areas. The aim of this study is to compare the problems encountered by professional and non-professional translators (physicians) with special attention paid to collocations. Further valuable observations and comments are also added by the respondents. The paper discusses the key position of collocations in the medical register in which the erroneous use of collocations discredits the paper and the researcher, thus hindering the dissemination of medical knowledge. Additionally, some other problematic issues are also highlighted. The author postulates further collocation-related empirical studies with attention paid to the phenomena of both teaching collocations and assessing the competence of the translator in the domain of collocations.
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