Technical & scientific translation

He claimed that there are nine requirements that a scientific translator should observe:

• He claimed that there are nine requirements that a scientific translator should observe:
• 1. Work appropriate for the intended audience.
• 2. Respect for choices made by the author.
• 3. Respect for references.
• 4. Understanding of sciences.
• 5. Understanding of languages.
• 6. Constructive questions.
• 7. Work suitable for publication.
• 8. Familiarity with current practices.
• 9. Timely exchange of work.

Scientific versus Literary Contexts

• By setting off scientific against the literary translation, their characteristics and the problems that are likely to be encountered in each, become more salient as illustrated below.

Scientific Texts	Literary Texts
- Logicality.	- Lack of argumentative progression.
- Precision.	- Vagueness.
- Reason.	- Emotion.
- Truth to particular reality.	- Truth to the ideal.
- Generalization.	- Concretion.
- Referential meaning.	- Emotive meaning.
- Denotation.	- Connotation.
- Lexical affixation.	- Grammatical affixation.
- Idiomatic expressions are rare.	- Idiomatic expressions are frequent.