Article
What Can a Translation Machine Do in Translating Abbreviations in Source Language Text into Target Language Text?
AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies
(2018)
Abstract
The main question that neeeds to be answered in this study was “What can a Translation Machine do in translating abbreviations in source language text into target language text?”The research method used in this study was descriptive qualitative. The source of data were 5five Indonesian abstracts written by master degree students of different study programs in Indonesia as the SLT. The abstracts were then translated into English using Translation Machine as TLT. The results show thatin translating abbreviations found in SLT a Translation Machine did different performances in TLT: (a) keeping the abbreviations the same if the abbreviations in SLT are not preceeded or followed by any hint or clue, (b) translating the abbreviations if the abbreviations in SLT are preceeded or followed by any hint or clue.
Keywords
- Source language text,
- target language text,
- translating,
- translation machine
Disciplines
Publication Date
Summer August 15, 2018
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol2no3.6
Citation Information
Abdul Muth’im. "What Can a Translation Machine Do in Translating Abbreviations in Source Language Text into Target Language Text?" AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies Vol. 2 Iss. 3 (2018) p. 85 - 101 ISSN: 2550-1542 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/awejfortranslation-literarystudies/86/