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  • Translation at the United Nations as Specialised Translation

    Author(s)
    Cao, D
    Zhao, X
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Cao, Deborah
    Year published
    2008
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    Abstract
    Multilingualism is one of the foundations of the United Nations (UN) and translation of UN documents plays an important political and practical role in the functioning of the Organ isation. This paper argues that UN translation is a special ised area of translational activity and has its own characteristics and special demands necessitated and dictated by the nature of the work of the UN and international diplomacy and developed over the sixty years' history. Thus, UN's experience in translation can provide an important insight and lesson for translators, translation organ isations and translation educational institutions. ...
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    Multilingualism is one of the foundations of the United Nations (UN) and translation of UN documents plays an important political and practical role in the functioning of the Organ isation. This paper argues that UN translation is a special ised area of translational activity and has its own characteristics and special demands necessitated and dictated by the nature of the work of the UN and international diplomacy and developed over the sixty years' history. Thus, UN's experience in translation can provide an important insight and lesson for translators, translation organ isations and translation educational institutions. This article focuses on the nature of translation at the UN as a special ised translation activity and describes and discusses some of the linguistic and institutional features of UN translation.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Specialised Translation
    Volume
    9
    Issue
    1
    Publisher URI
    http://www.jostrans.org/issue09/art_cao.php
    Subject
    Language studies
    Translation and interpretation studies
    Linguistics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/23038
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