Estudos de terminologia para a tradução técnica

Abstract

Technical translators have intensifi ed their interest in Terminology, searching for more knowledge about their structure and function. This paper focuses on various relational aspects between Terminology and Technical Translation, taking into account the premise that there is no specialized communication without technical and scientific terms. It also proposes that Terminology, a field of knowledge currently supported by linguistic and textual foundations, can offer translators the theoretical and methodological knowledge to facilitate the terminological treatment. The article emphasizes terminological problems faced by translators of technical texts in their professional practice such as the recognition of terms and terminological noun phases, linguistic variation, neologisms, specialized phraseology and metaphors. It also reviews research on specialized lexicon developed in the perspective of terminological studies.