An Investigation of English-Persian Translation of Formulaic Expressions in Electrical Instruction Manuals
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Mahboobeh Ebrahimzadeh
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Dr. Azadeh Nemati
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- Keywords:
- Formulaic expressions, Instruction manuals, Idioms, Technical texts
- Abstract
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Formulaic expressions cover a range of prefabricated linguistic units from
idioms and proverbs to conversational greeting, collocations, some phrasal verbs, and
many expressions. Although some authors like Britton (1974), Pinchuck (1977), and
Cabré (1999) have claimed that technical texts must be written in an objective style
which would exclude the use of such expressions, in this study the researcher indicates
that formulaic expressions exist in technical fields. This paper investigates in depth
the Persian translations of English formulaic expressions in 15 electrical home
appliance instruction manuals. The researcher also recognizes different types of such
expressions in the corpus. The findings were showed that Persian translations of all
formulaic expressions were accurate and there were marked difference between
frequencies of different types of formulaic expressions. - Downloads
- Published
- 2014-04-10
- Issue
- Vol. 3 No. 2 (2014)
- Section
- Articles