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Virginia LUCATELLI, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, ROMANIA La langue des logiciels : problèmes de traduction It is obvious that the most important pieces of software, those essential to the functioning of a computer in general, but also many others, are originally written in English. The paper focuses on the process of translating some of these computer programmes into several languages, from the standpoint of its conformity, accessibility and functionality. Key words: localization, internationalization, linguistic module, translation, adaptation Carmen MAFTEI-OPRIŢ, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, ROMANIA Eponyms in the Financial Vocabulary The study of eponyms has represented an interesting and challenging research topic whose results have been published in several articles. The current investigation furthers our perspective on this particular lexical category, that of names of persons converted into common words, which may behave as nouns, adjectives or verbs. It is an exploration of a specific terminology – the financial one – in terms of structure (discussing recategorized and derived forms) and of classifications (taking into consideration “one-word” and “multi-word” patterns). Key words: eponymic terms, eponyms, eponymy Monica NĂSTASI, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, ROMANIA Cultural Models in Communication and Translation I consider that language is an integral part of culture and the cultural factor has an utmost importance both in communication and translation. The cultural models proposed by Fons Trompenaars, Edward T. Hall and Gert Hofstede are very useful in understanding how culture functions. They suggest that the language that people speak influence their perception of reality. A perfect intercultural communication will never be possible as the speakers of the target language are not able to perceive reality the same way the speakers of the source language do. Therefore, the translator must know all the possible ways of rendering a certain concept into the TL (target language) and be faithful to the tradition in which he translates. Key words: cultural model, language, translation Iulia PARĂ and Judith MOISE, University of the West, Timisoara, ROMANIA Translating Economic Texts The specialist English terms used in business raise the question whether they should or should not be translated. The fields of business, technology and communication have developed rapidly, due to globalization and the changes in the political systems all over the world. In the practice of translation, we come across situations when, due to the capacity of English of expressing things in a more concise way, the text translated into Romanian is much longer, i.e. there is no quantitative equivalence. We shall exemplify the importance of context in choosing “the right word” with fragments taken out of the Romanian business newspaper Ziarul Financiar, edited both in English and Romanian, and by comparing the two versions we can illustrate how English words are used in some articles written in Romanian. Key words: equivalence, translation, Anglicisms, business Floriana POPESCU, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, ROMANIA An Approach to English Mathematical Eponyms The use of personal names to refer to other signified than the persons themselves has been a practice since times immemorial. Although this word-creating practice has been inconsistently tackled in the literature of speciality, it has been alluded to here and there, but it has hardly considered scientific specialist or jargon eponyms. Electronic resources provided by the internet point to the mathematicians’ interest either in creating and developing data bases or in describing the contributions of scientists all over the world to the progress of mathematics. This current linguisticsbased contribution is part of a comprehensive study of specialist eponyms which focuses on the structure of mathematical eponyms. Key words: adoptions, calques, eponymist, eponymism 151
Alexandru PRAISLER, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, ROMANIA Language, Power, Translation and Intercultural Communication The many cross-cultural contexts and regional/global interaction specific to the contemporary scene have generated the need to reconsider the role and status of translations and translators. Firstly, it is a question of focusing on language management today: language change, language use, linguistic contamination/colonisation. Secondly, it is one of viewing text production, mediation and reception within the frame of the various power relations worldwide. Lastly, it is one of raising cultural awareness and having it communicated efficiently across frontiers of time and space. Key words : language, power, politics, translation, communication Mădălina RADU, “Costache Negri” National College of Galaţi, ROMANIA On the Classification of Proverbs Proverbs typically contain easily understood concepts and images that produce abstract interpretations that are applicable to many situations. They are cited as coming from a wider community rather than as originating with a specific author. Proverbs also function to establish, maintain and restore social relationships and to reinforce solidarity within a community. One means of differentiating proverbs would be classifying them according to different criteria, such as: metaphor and reality, pairs of contradicting proverbs, the continuous distribution of proverbs, perfect truth, part of the truth, and total departure from reality. Key words: contradicting proverbs, metaphorical proverbs, perfect truth, part of the truth, total departure from reality Gabriela SCRIPNIC, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, ROMANIA Etude lexicographique bilingue (français-roumain). Le cas des verbes de rapport nier, démentir, rejeter This study represents a lexicographic approach of three verbs which may be used to deny a reported propositional content. It aims at pointing out, based on their inherent and contextual traits, the quasifixed collocations in which the verbs are likely to occur as introducing reported knowledge. The lexicographic analysis is performed on two French dictionaries available online, namely le Trésor de la langue française informatisé and le Larousse, as well as on the French-Romanian dictionary belonging to Gheorghina Hanes in order to bring to the fore collocations such as X nie la rumeur que / X denies the rumour that and to highlight the degree to which these collocations are given equivalents in the bilingual dictionary. This study is part of a larger project that deals with the reported discourse as manifestation of the phenomenon of evidentiality. This study is part of the research developed within the PN II PCE–IDEI 1209 / 2007 Project financed by the Romanian Ministry of Education, Research and Innovation. Key words: lexicographic approach, reported knowledge, collocation,verbs of saying Ana-Maria TRÂNTESCU, University of Craiova, ROMANIA Syntactic Features of Legal Language In the last few years, linguists have begun to recognize that professional sublanguages – such as legal language – have also important distinctive features beyond the lexical level. The most obvious differences may indeed be lexical, but there may also be syntactic and discourse features that are equally important. This paper briefly presents some morpho-syntactic features of legal language: the frequent use of modal verbs, of impersonal and passive constructions, of adverbial phrases, the syntactic complexity and the syntactic discontinuity. The paper also deals with some problems concerning the translation of legal texts from the syntactic perspective. Key words: impersonal constructions, nominalization, syntactic complexity, syntactic discontinuity Daniela ŢUCHEL, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, ROMANIA Lexical Loan, Cultural Overtone This article is lexically, semantically, and pragmatically concerned with stages in the adaptive and interpretive process relating to three categories of lexemes in Romanian vocabulary (cf. G. Ciobanu 2004): loan words, foreign loans and foreign words. An opening in discussing our examples will be 152
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