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The focus of the present chapter shifts to one of the factors which is often claimed to distinguish specialised from literary translation, namely the use of specialised vocabularies, in other words, terminology. In setting out to redefine the characteristics of literary translation, Woodsworth, for example, argues that for scientific-technical translators, the principal difficulty is terminological compared with the stylistic ‘traps’ of literary translation (1988: 121).
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Rogers, M. (2015). Terminology and Specialised Translation: A Historical Perspective. In: Specialised Translation. Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137478412_4
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