VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HA NOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGE AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES ---------- NGUYỄN THANH HIỀN THE TRANSLATION STRATEGIES OF FOOTWEAR INDUSTRIAL TERMINOLOGY BETWEEN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE (Nghiên cứu chiến lược dịch Anh-Việt các thuật ngữ trong tài liệu chuyên ngành công nghiệp giày dép) M.A MINOR THESIS PROGRAMME I Field: English Linguistics Code: 8220201.01 HA NOI-2019 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HA NOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGE AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES ---------- NGUYỄN THANH HIỀN THE TRANSLATION STRATEGIES OF FOOTWEAR INDUSTRIAL TERMINOLOGY BETWEEN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE (Nghiên cứu chiến lược dịch Anh-Việt các thuật ngữ trong tài liệu chuyên ngành công nghiệp giày dép) M.A MINOR THESIS PROGRAMME I Field: English Linguistics Code: 8220201. Lê Hùng Tiến HA NOI-2019 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY I, the undersigned, hereby certify my authority of the study project report entitled “The translation strategies of footwear industrial terminology between English and Vietnamese” submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in English Linguistics. Except where the reference is indicated, no other person‟s work has been used without due acknowledgement in the text of the thesis. Ha noi, 2019 Nguyen Thanh Hien i LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This thesis could not have been completed without the support, assistance and encouragement of a number of people.
First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Assoc. Lê Hùng Tiến, my supervisor, who has patiently and constantly supported me through the stages of the study, and whose stimulating ideas, expertise, and suggestions have inspired me greatly through my growth as an academic researcher. Secondly, a special word of thanks goes to all my teachers in the Department of Post Graduate Studies, University of Languages and International Studies,VNU, without whose useful and fundamental knowledge of English as well as research methods it would never have been possible for me have this thesis accomplished. Last but not least, I am greatly indebted to my family for the sacrifice they have devoted to the fulfillment of this academic work.
ii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ABSTRACT This thesis titled “The translation strategies of footwear industrial terminology between English and Vietnamese” investigates the strategies commonly used for dealing with the translation of FW terminology between English and Vietnamese. The main theoretical background of the study includes the concepts of the methods and procedures of translation; as well as the features of Footwear terminology. Firstly, many FW terms are collected from authentic materials and classified according to structural patterns. Then, the research paper focuses on working out strategies, procedures that can be best applied to the translation of terms at word- level and above-word-level.
Lastly, the conclusion clarifies the research question and some suggestions for further study are given. Hopefully, the research may make a contribution to translation of footwear terms and share a little bit experience in translation. iii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 1. SL Source language 2.
TL Target language 3. FW Footwear iv LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES Page Table 4.1: The descriptive equivalent procedure used in one word term translation 28 Table 4.2: The descriptive equivalent procedure used in above one word term translation 35 Table 4.3: The omission procedure used in above one word term translation 37 Figure 1. Translation as a continuum by Larson 8 Figure 2: The translation strategies used in Footwear terminology 26 v LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS Page CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY. iii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.
iv LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES .v TABLE OF CONTENTS. vi CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION. Scope of the study. Aims of the study.
Organization of the thesis.4 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND& LITERATURE REVIEW. Definition of translation. Translation methods and strategies. Translation of Neologisms.
Definition of Neologisms. Types of Neologisms and the translation. Definition of terminology. Classification of Footwear terminology.
Reasons to choose the dictionary .22 vi LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Procedure of data collection. Procedure of data analysis .24 CHAPTER 4: FINDING AND DISCUSSION. The translation of one-word terms from English into Vietnamese .1 Translation by using old words with new sense.
Translation by transference. Translation by naturalization. The translation of terms with the use of descriptive equivalent procedure 28 4. Translation by paraphrase using a related word.
The translation of above-word level terms from English into Vietnamese. Translation by shift and transpositions. Translation with the change word order from SL to TL. Translation by a rank- shift.
Translation by description procedure. Translation by omission. Appropriate strategies and procedures applied in translating Footwear terminology from English into Vietnamese. Some suggestions for the Footwear terminology translation strategies.
Summary of findings. The Implications of the Study. For the translation of FW terminology between English and Vietnamese. For EFL Teaching and Learning.
Suggestions for Further Study. I Appendix 1: Old words with new sense. I vii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com Appendix 2: Noun1+ Noun 2. II Appendix 3: Adjective+ Noun.
IV Appendix 4: V-ed+ Noun. V Appendix 5: Noun/Adjective+ Noun+Noun. VI Noun/Adjective+ V-ing+Noun. VI Appendix 6: V-ing+ Noun.
VII Appendix 7: Using descriptive equivalent procedure. IX Appendix 8: Transference terms. XI Appendix 9: Translation by paraphrase using a related word. XIII Appendix 10: Translation by omission.
XIV viii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ix LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION This chapter presents the research topic and the reasons for choosing it. Besides, the aim, objectives and the scope of the study are also provided in this chapter. Rationale It is undeniable that English is the most widely used language in every area in modern life. English is considered as an important tool in communication in general and in specialized documents in specific.
These days, thanks to foreign investment capital, Vietnam owns a newly developed industry branch called footwear production. The FW industry has thousands of big companies around the world, and Vietnam is becoming a big footwear exporter to Europe after only Italy and China. It has gained a significant revenue in national economy in recent years. Along with the development of other products around the world, the share of experiences and technology of footwear industry among countries plays an important role.
Thus, translation of materials in this field between English and Vietnamese attracts more attention for linguistic researchers. However, translation in this field is always a challenging task. The obvious difficulty is the problem of differences in English FW terms and Vietnamese ones. In other words, there are some existential differences between these two language systems of terminology.
This creates a challenge for many translators due to their lack of knowledge about footwear. Therefore, Vietnamese translators only translate some popular footwear terms for workers or for those who work in this field. I conduct this research with two main purposes. First, it helps translators gain more knowledge of translation theory to understand the original meaning and choose the most appropriate strategies for translation thoroughly.
Second, more importantly, the aim of the research is also to find out the ways of translation footwear terms which prove to be precise and flexible to make the translation between two languages English and Vietnam become standard footwear terms. 1 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com Additionally, I decide to make this study and give some suggestions to improve the quality of translation of materials in the field of footwear. Scope of the study There are a number of English and Vietnamese footwear terms in many materials, such as: Internet, books and footwear documents. This study focuses on the classification of typical English terms and Vietnamese equivalents in English – Vietnamese Dictionary of Leather and Footwear published in 2012 by Leather and Shoe Research Institute.
Simultaneously, it also finds out some translation strategies to deal with problems in translating English-Vietnamese footwear terms. Aims of the study This study is carried out with the following aims: +To find out translation strategies used in translation of footwear terms to answer the research question: “What strategies are commonly used to translate FW terminologies from English in to Vietnamese?” + To provide some suggestions for translating FW terminology to achieve an exact translation based on the results of the study. Research question To achieve the aims within the scope, the study is to make clear main research question: What strategies are commonly used to translate FW terminologies from English in to Vietnamese? 1. Methods The study will present a theoretical background of translation and terminology.
Next, it will collect typical English and Vietnamese FW terms from Dictionary and analyze their structural features. In the process, the study will classify and compare English FW terms with Vietnamese. After that, the study will define common strategies applied in the English-Vietnamese FW term translation. Some general research methods such as qualitative, quantitative will be applied 2 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com to carry out the thesis.
Besides, contrastive analysis, and description which are usually used to study linguistics will be used. The data for this study is collected through the procedure of critical analyzing, based on Newmark‟s methods and translation of Neologisms. Organization of the thesis The paper is divided into 5 chapters as below: Chapter 1: Introduction This chapter provides readers an overview of the study including the reason for choosing the topic, scope, aims, and its organization. Chapter 2: Theoretical Background &Literature Review Theoretical background in the light of which the research matters is discussed in this chapter.
Chapter 3: Methodology This chapter mentions the reasons to choose the dictionary and provides the main methodology and procedure of data collection. Chapter 4: Findings and Discussion This chapter presents analyses and discusses the results that the researcher found out from the collected data. It also gives answer to the research questions. Chapter 5: Conclusion The chapter summarizes the overall study and suggests some forms of further studies on the field.
3 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com CHAPTER 2 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND & LITERATURE REVIEW The chapter will provide theories on terminology and translation considered a basis for studying the English -Vietnamese translation of footwear terms. Definition of translation Translation is an important activity in the modern world. It attracts not only linguistics, professional translators but also many people in many special fields. All of the definitions below have been discussed and presented by many professors from different perspectives and in chronological will help to comprehend exactly about the development and popularity of the concept “translation”.
According to Catford (1965, p.20) given a very simple definition that “translation is the replacement of textual material in one language (source language) by equivalent textual material in another language (target language). With the same idea, Hartmann and Stock (1972, p.713) state that “translation is the placement of representation of a text in one language by a representation of another equivalent text in a second language”. These concepts only focus on the textual materials or original sources. However, some philologists have a deep understanding about translation beside the textual replacement.
Meanings, semantic or syntactic are continuously remarked in the view of translation theories. Translation is the expression in another language (or TL) of what has been expressed in another (SL), preserving semantic and stylistic equivalences. Nina and Taber (1974, p.12) suggested that “translation consists in reproducing in the receptor language the closet natural equivalent of the source language message, first in terms of meaning and secondly in terms of style”. In 1982, Wilss gave the detailed concept, it could combine all elements above.