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Thèse pour le doctorat

Département de français et d’italien

Université de Stockholm

S-106 91 Stockholm

Doctoral dissertation

Department of French and Italian

Stockholm University

S-106 91 Stockholm

Abstract

This dissertation investigates translation strategies and translation principles in

technical translation. Five translation students and 5 professional translators from

German-speaking Switzerland and 4 translation students and 6 professional

translators from Sweden were asked to think aloud while translating a user guide

from French into German and from French into Swedish, respectively. The focus

of the analysis was on the strategies that could be observed by comparing the

translation products with the source text; and on the principles underlying these

strategies as revealed by the think-aloud protocols of the translation processes. In

order to evaluate the extent to which the translation products complied with the

fictitious translation brief given to the participants, 2 reviewers per language pair

proofread the translation products. The analysis also included contrastive

analyses of certain linguistic features of technical texts in French-German and

French-Swedish. The results show that experience of translation does play a role

in the choice of translation strategy. It is, however, an even more important factor

with respect to knowing and applying translation principles in the translation

process. Also, students more often display uncertainty regarding translation

principles, and conflict between the principles verbalised and those actually

followed. Language-pair specific differences were mostly found in connection

with translation strategies. Comments about future directions include the need for

clearer definitions and more systematic manipulations of the variables involved

in translation, and the potential interest in investigating the principles governing

how translations are revised through the use of think-aloud protocols.

Keywords:

translation strategies, translation principles, think-aloud protocols,

technical translation, French-German, French-Swedish, translation students,

professional translators.

 2003 Alexander Künzli

Printed by Akademitryck, Stockholm, 2003

ISBN 91-974284-6-9

ISSN 1400-7010

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