Translation norms have an important place in descriptive translation theory and these concern not only the translated texts but also society culture to which belong. Norms are related behaviour choices of translators process therefore determine decisions. The decisions taken will be closer source or target languages cultures. Thus, it becomes clear poles adequacy acceptability is translation. &...

genderism is a segregating ideology that unfairly divides society into two groups of “inferior” and “superior” merely based on one’s sex. sociocultural norms are accordingly assigned and although societies agree on its discrimination, they sometimes diverge in their perspectives when dealing with it; thus, its intercultural transmission can be challenging. the present paper aims to investigate ...

Objective to present a guide with recommendations for translation, adaptation, elaboration and process of validation of tests in Speech and Language Pathology. Methods the recommendations were based on international guidelines with a focus on the elaboration, translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation process of tests. Results the recommendations were grouped into two Charts, one...

Emails contain linguistic phenomena that deviate from standard language norms and may cause machine translation errors. In order to design an email translation environment for the Interlingua project developed at UOC, we classified deviations from the standard in a corpus of emails in Catalan and analysed their impact on the machine translation quality in Spanish. Here we present this analysis....

What is an error and what is a translation ‘error’? The term “error” usually means that something is wrong. In written texts – both in original texts and translated texts – errors can be classified as, for example, pragmatic, semantic, idiomatic, orthographic, linguistic or stylistic errors. But what is a ‘translation error’ – with focus on ‘translation’? If we define a translation as the produ...