An Evaluation Ofword Formation In The Translation Of English Medical Terms Into Persian
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2016-08
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Zeinali, Ali Akbar
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Abstract
This study provides a comparative analysis of the characteristics of Persian
medical terms, using the universal naming guidelines and local naming principles in
Persian. The aim of the study is to determine the similarities and differences of the
compatible and incompatible terms (Persian equivalents) with respect to the applied
translation procedures and the employed word formation processes. The study also
sets out to investigate the effectiveness of the adopted translation procedures in the
naming of the medical terms and to propose the specific naming guidelines in the
translation of English-Persian medical terms. The descriptive statistics and
qualitative analysis were employed to analyse the collected data which consisted of a
population of 339 English medical terms from the source text (ICD-9-CM) and their
pair language from the target text (Guide to ICD-9-CM) in Persian. The research was
based on two theoretical frameworks, namely Sager’s naming criteria and word
designation principles by the Persian Language and Literature Academy (PLLA) to
investigate the effective word formation parameters for the translation of English
medical terms into Persian through morphosemantic comparison of the terms. The
finding indicated that 67% of the terms were incompatible with the basal naming
guidelines employed in the study. The compatible equivalents indicated that the
effective translation procedures had been used and the naming requirements for the
secondary word formation of the equivalents in the translation of English medical
terms into Persian had been fulfilled; while the incompatible ones illustrated the
usage of the wrong methods.
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The characteristics of Persian medical terms, using the universal naming guidelines , and local naming principles in Persian.