Studying Scientific Metaphor in Translation: An Inquiry into Cross-lingual Translation Practices

摘要

In the era of globalization and translation industrialization, it is pronounced that "[m]any of the world's translators work on scientific or technical texts" (Olohan 2016, 2). However, international scholarly publications on literary translation remain springing up like mushrooms while pages devoted to scientific and technical translation (STT) are by their absence. To our delight, there is an ever-growing recognition with this "absence" over the past few years or so. Special issues themed "Translating Science" (2011) and "Sciences in Translation" (2016) were heralded by the international translation studies journals The Translator and Meta successively. Scientific and Technical Translation (Olohan 2016), the latest fundamental work of its kind, came into being.