Genre analysis and specialised translation
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https://doi.org/10.12775/RP.2016.003Keywords
genre in translation studies, linguistic genre analysis, specialised translation, legal translationAbstract
The article focuses on a relatively new research direction in the translation studies discipline, namely genre analysis of specialised texts for translation-related purposes. The first part of the paper has been devoted to a general description of the origins of the concept of genre and concise reflection on its complex and fuzzy nature. Selected genre theories which form the basis for translation-related genre analysis have been outlined. The article is not limited to English-language-centred approaches: it also briefly summarized the inspirations behind the contribution of Polish linguists researching into genre. In the subsequent section, attention has been directed to the importance of genre awareness in the case of practicing specialised translators, which is a prerequisite for successful functional translation. Currently genre-focused research into specialised translation-related issues is usually conducted in accordance with two methodologies, proposed by Bhatia (1993) and GENTT Research Group (Borja Albi et al. 2009). Both of them have been succinctly presented. In the case of the Spanish model, the methodological description has been complemented with a short account of its practical application for the sake of building a multilingual encyclopaedia of specialised texts for translators (GENTT Project). Last but not least, INLETRA Project has been mentioned, which combines an interest in translation-related genre analysis with its main focus on inverse translation.
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