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Research paper thumbnail of La fraseología en el lenguaje biomédico: análisis desdelas necesidades del traductor

Estudios de Lingüística del Español, 1999

... Autores: María Isabel Tercedor Sánchez; Localización: Estudios de Lingüística del Español, IS... more ... Autores: María Isabel Tercedor Sánchez; Localización: Estudios de Lingüística del Español, ISSN 1139-8736, Nº. 6, 1999; Enlaces: Texto completo. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. Acceso de usuarios registrados Usuario. Contraseña. Entrar. Mi Dialnet. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Applying Corpus Data to Define Needs in Web Localization Training

Meta, 2011

Localization is increasingly making its way into translation training programs at university leve... more Localization is increasingly making its way into translation training programs at university level. However, there is still a scarce amount of empirical research addressing issues such as defining localization in relation to translation, what localization competence entails or how to best incorporate intercultural differences between digital genres, text types and conventions, among other aspects. In this paper, we propose a foundation for the study of localization competence based upon previous research on translation competence. This project was developed following an empirical corpus-based contrastive study of student translations (learner corpus), combined with data from a comparable corpus made up of an original Spanish corpus and a Spanish localized corpus. The objective of the study is to identify differences in production between digital texts localized by students and professionals on the one hand, and original texts on the other. This contrastive study allows us to gain in...

Research paper thumbnail of Caracterización léxico-semántica de emociones para la comunicación interlingüística inglés-español

Research paper thumbnail of Conceptual multidimensionality in medical translation

En la comunicación científica, la selección de un término suele conllevar que se resalte una cara... more En la comunicación científica, la selección de un término suele conllevar que se resalte una característica más o menos prototípica del concepto, una intención en el emisor o una dimensión del concepto. En la comunicación interlingüística y a menudo intercultural que entraña la traducción en ámbitos biosanitarios, prestar atención a estas dimensiones es importante para que el producto cumpla con las expectativas del receptor meta. El proyecto VARIMED (FFI2011-23120) se plantea estudiar la motivación cognitiva que existe en la selección léxica de distintas formas para dar nombre a conceptos médicos de cara a establecer la presencia de una sistematización en dicha motivación. En este artículo abordaremos estas características desde la descripción de los objetivos del proyecto y la metodología seguida en el mismo.In scientific communication, selecting a term often means highlighting a more or less prototypical feature of a concept, revealing an intention from the issuer or even a certa...

Research paper thumbnail of Segundo semestre

Resumen: Diversas leyes internacionales establecen el derecho de las personas a hablar en su leng... more Resumen: Diversas leyes internacionales establecen el derecho de las personas a hablar en su lengua materna y al acceso a la salud; no obstante, los pueblos indígenas son sectores vulnerables que no siempre gozan de estos derechos elementales. En este trabajo se describe un proyecto de cooperación en el que se elaboraron materiales didácticos bilingües con el objetivo de fomentar el desarrollo de la población indígena mayahablante desde el reconocimiento de su idiosincrasia lingüística y cultural. Palabras clave: interculturalidad, lengua maya, acceso a la salud, materiales multimedia, mediación lingüística y cultural. Access to healthcare for the Mayan-speaking indigenous population of Mexico: creation of educational materials from an intercultural perspective Abstract: Several international laws establish the individual's right to access healthcare services and to speak their native language; indigenous peoples, however, are vulnerable populations that do not always enjoy thes...

Research paper thumbnail of Working with Words: Research Approaches to Translation-Oriented Lexicographic Practice

TTR : traduction, terminologie, rédaction, 2012

Dictionaries ideally should address the needs of particular types of users. Their micro and macro... more Dictionaries ideally should address the needs of particular types of users. Their micro and macrostructural design should be oriented towards what user groups need to know about words and the uses that will be made of such knowledge. One specific use for dictionaries is the activity of translation. From the perspective of professional translators, dictionaries should allow for creativity and dynamicity in text production, providing solutions for changing communication needs. Dictionary-making for such a purpose can and should benefit from insights into words and meanings from other fields. Interdisciplinarity in Lexicography is just one example of how other fields interact in Translation Studies. In this paper we analyse how working in an interdisciplinary way is crucial to developing useful lexicographic and terminographic tools for translators and how methodologies, such as corpus-based work and experimental methods should be combined to offer converging evidence of different aspe...

Research paper thumbnail of Textual and Visual Aids for E-learning Translation Courses

Meta: Journal des traducteurs, 2005

The methodology of an e-learning course is based on the strategies of proactive learning, focused... more The methodology of an e-learning course is based on the strategies of proactive learning, focused on the student as the key element of an approach to training in which the teacher acts as a facilitator of the learning process. Within the context of the design of a translation course in an e-learning context, the teacher must bear in mind that the student is faced with tasks that require the previous design of aids that help both in the translation process and in the acquisition of field knowledge to carry them out. Furthermore, the design should reflect the new multimedia structures that the information society has brought about. We present a series of activities generated with both visual and textual material implemented in the design of e-learning courses in audiovisual translation (subtitling and multimedia), technical and scientific translation. One of the courses is accessible through the WebCT e-learning platform, another uses the BSCWTM collaborative learning platform and the...

Research paper thumbnail of Aspectos culturales en la localización de productos multimedia

Quaderns: Revista de traducció, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of HLS 12: Selected Proceedings of the 12th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

Producción CientíficaWe set out to investigate whether and how the Spanish copula system might in... more Producción CientíficaWe set out to investigate whether and how the Spanish copula system might influence the realization of copula in the English developing grammar of two English/Spanish simultaneous bilinguals

Research paper thumbnail of Neither Born nor Made, but Socially Constructed: Promoting Interactive Learning in an Online Environment

The social constructivist approach to translator training represents a clear statement on the imp... more The social constructivist approach to translator training represents a clear statement on the importance of directing university teachers towards a student-centered, learning centered mode. By acknowledging the fundamental role of Vygotsky in determining his approach, Kiraly brought translator training in line with the established, broad-based humanistic approach to Foreign Language Learning; by drawing on Stevick and Schön, among others, he made this debt explicit. In this article, we apply the social constructivist approach through blended e-learning environments in courses offered to final year undergraduate students of translation. Our objective is to determine the success of combining technology and social constructivist pedagogy in promoting effective learner-centered learning. In Kiraly’s terms, we have “scaffolded” our instruction by applying instruments such as rating scales of criterion-referenced descriptors; textual and visual aids; and learner generated corpora. Our qua...

Research paper thumbnail of E-patients in Oncology: a corpus-based characterization of medical terminology in an online cancer forum

Ibérica, 2020

This study aimed to characterize medical terms in an online cancer forum, with particular focus o... more This study aimed to characterize medical terms in an online cancer forum, with particular focus on specialization and semantic features. A three-step analysis was carried out on a 60-million-word corpus to detect and characterize the most typical medical terms used in a cancer forum by means of (1) keywords contrastive, (2) co-text-guided, and (3) semantic analyses. More than half of the 1000 words analysed were medical terms according to the co-text-guided analysis carried out. Most of them (73%) were dictionary-defined medical terms, followed by co-text-defined terms (9%) and medical initialisms (8.5%). The semantic analysis showed a higher number of terms within the fields of Anatomy, Treatment, Hospital and Symptoms. Our findings suggest that medical terms are commonly used in cancer forums, especially to share e-patients' concerns about treatment, symptoms and hospital environment. The method followed is efficient and could be applied in future studies. Altogether, this art...

Research paper thumbnail of Traducción y Terminología

1. Introducción Uno de los objetivos estratégicos de la Fundación Españo-la para la Ciencia y la ... more 1. Introducción Uno de los objetivos estratégicos de la Fundación Españo-la para la Ciencia y la Tecnología es el de impulsar «la divul-gación del conocimiento en materia de ciencia y tecnología, con el fin de crear esa necesaria cultura científica y tecnoló-gica entre los ciudadanos». Lamentablemente, gran parte de la cultura científica que recibe el público general proviene de los medios de comunicación, lo cual trae consigo limitaciones en cuanto a la fiabilidad y la relevancia científica real de la información publicada. En este sentido, como afirma Semir (2003) apoyándose en Balzac, «la relación de un periodista con la verdad es perversa porque, para un periodista, todo aquello que es probable es verdad». Teniendo en cuenta que cáncer es una de las diez palabras relacionadas con la ciencia que más frecuentemente se citan en los medios españoles de comunicación escrita (Núñez, 2003), a la cautela al presentar conceptos especializados y avances terapéuticos relativos al cáncer ha...

Research paper thumbnail of See Profile

All in-text references underlined in blue are linked to publications on ResearchGate, letting you... more All in-text references underlined in blue are linked to publications on ResearchGate, letting you access and read them immediately.

Research paper thumbnail of Codifying conceptual information in descriptive terminology management

Research paper thumbnail of Using Multimedia Materials in the Teaching of Scientific and

Information technology has changed the professional environment of scien-tific and technical tran... more Information technology has changed the professional environment of scien-tific and technical translators, who must work with new formats and chan-nels of information. To meet these new challenges, translation teachers must place special emphasis on the importance of the non-textual informa-tion evolving around multimedia texts and adopt a more dynamic approach towards audiovisual translation (AVT). In this paper, we argue for the in-clusion of graphic information as a new focus for AVT, and present the results of a research project aimed at designing teaching materials for audiovisual, scientific and technical translation. These materials highlight the potential benefits of audiovisual resources for all users in the acquisi-tion of subject field knowledge and terminology and the constraints im-posed on translation by visual and acoustic material.

Research paper thumbnail of Learning in an Online Environment

Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l'Université de Mon... more Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l'Université de Montréal, l'Université Laval et l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. Érudit offre des services d'édition numérique de documents scientifiques depuis 1998. Pour communiquer avec les responsables d'Érudit:

Research paper thumbnail of Resultados y discusión

Introduccion ; Analisis del microcampo central ; Resultados de concordancias ; Ubicacion del camp... more Introduccion ; Analisis del microcampo central ; Resultados de concordancias ; Ubicacion del campo dentro del dominio ; Atribucion de las funciones terminologicas ; Elaboracion de la ficha fraseologica ; Analisis de la dimension tipos de cancer ; Introduccion: formas de denominacion del cancer ; Tipos de tumores: analisis de las distintas dimensiones de clasificacion ; Analisis de small cell lung cancer ; Leucemia mieloide cronica ; Activacion de la dimension tratamientos ; Descripcion conceptual y fraseologica de interleukin-* ; Edelfosina ; Colocaciones fuertes en las subdimensiones cirugia y terapias dentro de la dimension tratamientos ; Dimension participantes ; Dimension pruebas diagnosticas ; Taxonomia de las unidades fraseologicas en el discurso del cancer

Research paper thumbnail of La fraseología en el lenguaje biomédico

Research paper thumbnail of Identification and understanding of medical metaphors by non-experts

Metaphor in Communication, Science and Education

Research paper thumbnail of An English-Spanish contrastive study*

This electronic file may not be altered in any way. The author(s) of this article is/are permitte... more This electronic file may not be altered in any way. The author(s) of this article is/are permitted to use this PDF file to generate printed copies to be used by way of offprints, for their personal use only. Permission is granted by the publishers to post this file on a closed server which is accessible to members (students and staff) only of the author’s/s’ institute, it is not permitted to post this PDF on the open internet. For any other use of this material prior written permission should be obtained from the publishers or through the Copyright Clearance Center (for USA: www.copyright.com). Please contact rights@benjamins.nl or consult our website: www.benjamins.com

Research paper thumbnail of La fraseología en el lenguaje biomédico: análisis desdelas necesidades del traductor

Estudios de Lingüística del Español, 1999

... Autores: María Isabel Tercedor Sánchez; Localización: Estudios de Lingüística del Español, IS... more ... Autores: María Isabel Tercedor Sánchez; Localización: Estudios de Lingüística del Español, ISSN 1139-8736, Nº. 6, 1999; Enlaces: Texto completo. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. Acceso de usuarios registrados Usuario. Contraseña. Entrar. Mi Dialnet. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Applying Corpus Data to Define Needs in Web Localization Training

Meta, 2011

Localization is increasingly making its way into translation training programs at university leve... more Localization is increasingly making its way into translation training programs at university level. However, there is still a scarce amount of empirical research addressing issues such as defining localization in relation to translation, what localization competence entails or how to best incorporate intercultural differences between digital genres, text types and conventions, among other aspects. In this paper, we propose a foundation for the study of localization competence based upon previous research on translation competence. This project was developed following an empirical corpus-based contrastive study of student translations (learner corpus), combined with data from a comparable corpus made up of an original Spanish corpus and a Spanish localized corpus. The objective of the study is to identify differences in production between digital texts localized by students and professionals on the one hand, and original texts on the other. This contrastive study allows us to gain in...

Research paper thumbnail of Caracterización léxico-semántica de emociones para la comunicación interlingüística inglés-español

Research paper thumbnail of Conceptual multidimensionality in medical translation

En la comunicación científica, la selección de un término suele conllevar que se resalte una cara... more En la comunicación científica, la selección de un término suele conllevar que se resalte una característica más o menos prototípica del concepto, una intención en el emisor o una dimensión del concepto. En la comunicación interlingüística y a menudo intercultural que entraña la traducción en ámbitos biosanitarios, prestar atención a estas dimensiones es importante para que el producto cumpla con las expectativas del receptor meta. El proyecto VARIMED (FFI2011-23120) se plantea estudiar la motivación cognitiva que existe en la selección léxica de distintas formas para dar nombre a conceptos médicos de cara a establecer la presencia de una sistematización en dicha motivación. En este artículo abordaremos estas características desde la descripción de los objetivos del proyecto y la metodología seguida en el mismo.In scientific communication, selecting a term often means highlighting a more or less prototypical feature of a concept, revealing an intention from the issuer or even a certa...

Research paper thumbnail of Segundo semestre

Resumen: Diversas leyes internacionales establecen el derecho de las personas a hablar en su leng... more Resumen: Diversas leyes internacionales establecen el derecho de las personas a hablar en su lengua materna y al acceso a la salud; no obstante, los pueblos indígenas son sectores vulnerables que no siempre gozan de estos derechos elementales. En este trabajo se describe un proyecto de cooperación en el que se elaboraron materiales didácticos bilingües con el objetivo de fomentar el desarrollo de la población indígena mayahablante desde el reconocimiento de su idiosincrasia lingüística y cultural. Palabras clave: interculturalidad, lengua maya, acceso a la salud, materiales multimedia, mediación lingüística y cultural. Access to healthcare for the Mayan-speaking indigenous population of Mexico: creation of educational materials from an intercultural perspective Abstract: Several international laws establish the individual's right to access healthcare services and to speak their native language; indigenous peoples, however, are vulnerable populations that do not always enjoy thes...

Research paper thumbnail of Working with Words: Research Approaches to Translation-Oriented Lexicographic Practice

TTR : traduction, terminologie, rédaction, 2012

Dictionaries ideally should address the needs of particular types of users. Their micro and macro... more Dictionaries ideally should address the needs of particular types of users. Their micro and macrostructural design should be oriented towards what user groups need to know about words and the uses that will be made of such knowledge. One specific use for dictionaries is the activity of translation. From the perspective of professional translators, dictionaries should allow for creativity and dynamicity in text production, providing solutions for changing communication needs. Dictionary-making for such a purpose can and should benefit from insights into words and meanings from other fields. Interdisciplinarity in Lexicography is just one example of how other fields interact in Translation Studies. In this paper we analyse how working in an interdisciplinary way is crucial to developing useful lexicographic and terminographic tools for translators and how methodologies, such as corpus-based work and experimental methods should be combined to offer converging evidence of different aspe...

Research paper thumbnail of Textual and Visual Aids for E-learning Translation Courses

Meta: Journal des traducteurs, 2005

The methodology of an e-learning course is based on the strategies of proactive learning, focused... more The methodology of an e-learning course is based on the strategies of proactive learning, focused on the student as the key element of an approach to training in which the teacher acts as a facilitator of the learning process. Within the context of the design of a translation course in an e-learning context, the teacher must bear in mind that the student is faced with tasks that require the previous design of aids that help both in the translation process and in the acquisition of field knowledge to carry them out. Furthermore, the design should reflect the new multimedia structures that the information society has brought about. We present a series of activities generated with both visual and textual material implemented in the design of e-learning courses in audiovisual translation (subtitling and multimedia), technical and scientific translation. One of the courses is accessible through the WebCT e-learning platform, another uses the BSCWTM collaborative learning platform and the...

Research paper thumbnail of Aspectos culturales en la localización de productos multimedia

Quaderns: Revista de traducció, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of HLS 12: Selected Proceedings of the 12th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

Producción CientíficaWe set out to investigate whether and how the Spanish copula system might in... more Producción CientíficaWe set out to investigate whether and how the Spanish copula system might influence the realization of copula in the English developing grammar of two English/Spanish simultaneous bilinguals

Research paper thumbnail of Neither Born nor Made, but Socially Constructed: Promoting Interactive Learning in an Online Environment

The social constructivist approach to translator training represents a clear statement on the imp... more The social constructivist approach to translator training represents a clear statement on the importance of directing university teachers towards a student-centered, learning centered mode. By acknowledging the fundamental role of Vygotsky in determining his approach, Kiraly brought translator training in line with the established, broad-based humanistic approach to Foreign Language Learning; by drawing on Stevick and Schön, among others, he made this debt explicit. In this article, we apply the social constructivist approach through blended e-learning environments in courses offered to final year undergraduate students of translation. Our objective is to determine the success of combining technology and social constructivist pedagogy in promoting effective learner-centered learning. In Kiraly’s terms, we have “scaffolded” our instruction by applying instruments such as rating scales of criterion-referenced descriptors; textual and visual aids; and learner generated corpora. Our qua...

Research paper thumbnail of E-patients in Oncology: a corpus-based characterization of medical terminology in an online cancer forum

Ibérica, 2020

This study aimed to characterize medical terms in an online cancer forum, with particular focus o... more This study aimed to characterize medical terms in an online cancer forum, with particular focus on specialization and semantic features. A three-step analysis was carried out on a 60-million-word corpus to detect and characterize the most typical medical terms used in a cancer forum by means of (1) keywords contrastive, (2) co-text-guided, and (3) semantic analyses. More than half of the 1000 words analysed were medical terms according to the co-text-guided analysis carried out. Most of them (73%) were dictionary-defined medical terms, followed by co-text-defined terms (9%) and medical initialisms (8.5%). The semantic analysis showed a higher number of terms within the fields of Anatomy, Treatment, Hospital and Symptoms. Our findings suggest that medical terms are commonly used in cancer forums, especially to share e-patients' concerns about treatment, symptoms and hospital environment. The method followed is efficient and could be applied in future studies. Altogether, this art...

Research paper thumbnail of Traducción y Terminología

1. Introducción Uno de los objetivos estratégicos de la Fundación Españo-la para la Ciencia y la ... more 1. Introducción Uno de los objetivos estratégicos de la Fundación Españo-la para la Ciencia y la Tecnología es el de impulsar «la divul-gación del conocimiento en materia de ciencia y tecnología, con el fin de crear esa necesaria cultura científica y tecnoló-gica entre los ciudadanos». Lamentablemente, gran parte de la cultura científica que recibe el público general proviene de los medios de comunicación, lo cual trae consigo limitaciones en cuanto a la fiabilidad y la relevancia científica real de la información publicada. En este sentido, como afirma Semir (2003) apoyándose en Balzac, «la relación de un periodista con la verdad es perversa porque, para un periodista, todo aquello que es probable es verdad». Teniendo en cuenta que cáncer es una de las diez palabras relacionadas con la ciencia que más frecuentemente se citan en los medios españoles de comunicación escrita (Núñez, 2003), a la cautela al presentar conceptos especializados y avances terapéuticos relativos al cáncer ha...

Research paper thumbnail of See Profile

All in-text references underlined in blue are linked to publications on ResearchGate, letting you... more All in-text references underlined in blue are linked to publications on ResearchGate, letting you access and read them immediately.

Research paper thumbnail of Codifying conceptual information in descriptive terminology management

Research paper thumbnail of Using Multimedia Materials in the Teaching of Scientific and

Information technology has changed the professional environment of scien-tific and technical tran... more Information technology has changed the professional environment of scien-tific and technical translators, who must work with new formats and chan-nels of information. To meet these new challenges, translation teachers must place special emphasis on the importance of the non-textual informa-tion evolving around multimedia texts and adopt a more dynamic approach towards audiovisual translation (AVT). In this paper, we argue for the in-clusion of graphic information as a new focus for AVT, and present the results of a research project aimed at designing teaching materials for audiovisual, scientific and technical translation. These materials highlight the potential benefits of audiovisual resources for all users in the acquisi-tion of subject field knowledge and terminology and the constraints im-posed on translation by visual and acoustic material.

Research paper thumbnail of Learning in an Online Environment

Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l'Université de Mon... more Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l'Université de Montréal, l'Université Laval et l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. Érudit offre des services d'édition numérique de documents scientifiques depuis 1998. Pour communiquer avec les responsables d'Érudit:

Research paper thumbnail of Resultados y discusión

Introduccion ; Analisis del microcampo central ; Resultados de concordancias ; Ubicacion del camp... more Introduccion ; Analisis del microcampo central ; Resultados de concordancias ; Ubicacion del campo dentro del dominio ; Atribucion de las funciones terminologicas ; Elaboracion de la ficha fraseologica ; Analisis de la dimension tipos de cancer ; Introduccion: formas de denominacion del cancer ; Tipos de tumores: analisis de las distintas dimensiones de clasificacion ; Analisis de small cell lung cancer ; Leucemia mieloide cronica ; Activacion de la dimension tratamientos ; Descripcion conceptual y fraseologica de interleukin-* ; Edelfosina ; Colocaciones fuertes en las subdimensiones cirugia y terapias dentro de la dimension tratamientos ; Dimension participantes ; Dimension pruebas diagnosticas ; Taxonomia de las unidades fraseologicas en el discurso del cancer

Research paper thumbnail of La fraseología en el lenguaje biomédico

Research paper thumbnail of Identification and understanding of medical metaphors by non-experts

Metaphor in Communication, Science and Education

Research paper thumbnail of An English-Spanish contrastive study*

This electronic file may not be altered in any way. The author(s) of this article is/are permitte... more This electronic file may not be altered in any way. The author(s) of this article is/are permitted to use this PDF file to generate printed copies to be used by way of offprints, for their personal use only. Permission is granted by the publishers to post this file on a closed server which is accessible to members (students and staff) only of the author’s/s’ institute, it is not permitted to post this PDF on the open internet. For any other use of this material prior written permission should be obtained from the publishers or through the Copyright Clearance Center (for USA: www.copyright.com). Please contact rights@benjamins.nl or consult our website: www.benjamins.com