Inconsistency of terminology is one negative outcome of the translation of LIT. Translators tend to take over abbreviations and acronyms in their Latin script into both TLs, or much less frequently borrow or expand them. Derivation is widely used in translation into Arabic. The latter is proposed here to describe the adaptation of lexical items, especially those of graphical user interfaces, to the TL culture. Other strategies are borrowing, deletion, expanding and cultural adaptation. Metaphor is translated literally, but also normalized if there is collocational clash, or the concept or item is not found in the TL culture.Įxplicitation is widely used in translating LIT to provide transparent renditions. Some verb collocates, especially those of figurative character, are toned down. Generally, collocational restrictions are non-operational and thus TL words tend to combine with no difficulty. These strategies result in novel collocations in both Arabic and Swedish. Literal and loan translation are used extensively, even to the extent of producing opaque and odd lexical items. Translators also use a combination of more than one strategy to provide equivalents for LIT lexical items. The study identifies nine strategies that translators usually opt for when translating the lexical component of LIT into Arabic and Swedish. Then it proceeds to examine the translation into Arabic and Swedish, focusing on the strategies used by translators to render the vocabulary of LIT.

The study provides a description of LIT in terms of lexical collocations, metaphoric use and acronymy. Three corpora have been built specifically for this study for each language investigated here. Localization involves inter alia linguistic transference of on-line help, documentation, and interfaces of software and web sites into the target language (TL) as well as adapting them to the local culture. The translation of software and web sites is nowadays carried out within what is known as localization. Besides its special terminology, LIT is characterized by a special kind of linguistic usage encountered in programs and web sites in the form of menus, messages and dialog boxes. The designation of Language of Information Technology (LIT) is proposed to refer to this variety which is manifested in computer manuals, online help for computer systems and software, and interfaces of software and web sites. The study investigates the translation of the variety of English that is used in the field of information technology. Arabic, Corpus-based Translation Studies, Localization, Swedish, Terminology Abstract

Translate arabic to english voice