A study on English-Vietnamese translation of compound nouns in information technology

• Main Author: Nguyễn, Thị Oanh
• Other Authors: Kiều, Thị Thu Hương
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Tiếng Anh > Dịch thuật về kỹ thuật công nghệ; Danh từ ghép; Tiếng Việt > Dịch thuật về kỹ thuật công nghệ; English language; English language > Technical English; 428.029597
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/79845
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

This thesis focuses on the translation of English compound nouns in the information technology (IT from now on) into Vietnamese. It aims at investigating the five common strategies normally applied to translate IT compound nouns from English into Vietnamese.The study starts with the theoretical background that elaborates on the notion of translation, translation methods as well as translation procedures and equivalence. Then it touches upon the typical features of English compound nouns in information technology. In the main part, a detailed investigation and examination of the translation of these English compound nouns is carried out, from which it identifies the common translation strategies used in this field. The five common strategies, namely transposition, transference, naturalization, couplets procedure (combining both transference and naturalization) and communication methods are common choices that translators often make in different situations or for different types of compound nouns, through each procedure embodies in itself both advantages and disadvantages. Hopefully, the results of the study will be of some help to people who are in charge of teaching, studying and translating English IT terms into Vietnamese.