Sci-Tech Communication: Is There a Process of Internationalization in English and Spanish?-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Sci-Tech Communication: Is There a Process of Internationalization in English and Spanish?

Published:2006-09-21 Issue:3 Volume:51 Page:445-458
ISSN:1492-1421
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Author:

Mendiluce-Cabrera Gustavo¹,Bermúdez-Bausela Montserrat²

Affiliation:

1. Instituto de Terminología Bilingüe y Traducción Especializada (ITBYTE), Valladolid, Spain 1

2. Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio, Madrid, Spain

Abstract

Clearly, English is the lingua franca adopted by the scientific community. More specifically, it is International English (IE), the specialized language that non-native users of English need to acquire in order to be accepted by this community. From this starting point, we will discuss the presence or absence of diatopic variants in sci-tech written language as illustrated in the field of Medicine. Despite this linguistic uniformization, translation is still extremely important in LSP, as software localization shows. Yet, companies that localize from English into Spanish agree on the importance of finding a universal variety of Spanish to reduce costs. Thus, Medicine and software localization show how this complex process of internationalization works in two different specialized languages.

Publisher

Consortium Erudit

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

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