John Fryer and<i>The Translator’s Vade-mecum</i>

Tola, Gabriele

doi:10.1080/02549948.2018.1467099

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“…Both of them refuted the view that Western works of science and technology were untranslatable. As discussed above, Fryer put forward strategies including using old Chinese terms to translate scientific and technological terminology (Tola 2018), adopting liberal translation in the creation of a new term, taking into account the pronunciation, keeping the translation as brief as possible, following the official accent, and so on. Similarly, Mateer (1877) addressed the same issue and argued that some translators should not take a passive attitude toward technical translation.…”

Section: Theoretical Convergence and Opinion Divergence In The Transl...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Compilation of Dictionaries and Scientific and Technological Translations by Western Protestant Missionaries in China in the Nineteenth Century

Tao,

Wan

2024

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The 19th century saw the important transformation of modern Western concepts into Chinese lexical resources. The missionaries were the initiators and important driving force for the translation of Western books into Chinese in modern China. They promoted ‘translating terms’ and ‘coining terms’ in their translations of Western books and the compilation of dictionaries with the cooperation of Chinese intellectuals. Their work provided a tangible ‘word’ carrier of ‘concepts’ for disseminating modern knowledge from the West to the East. Compiled by missionaries, the English–Chinese bilingual dictionaries introduced a brand-new concept of dictionary compilation and changed China’s history of having zidian (字典, character dictionaries) but no cidian (辞典, specialized dictionaries). In particular, John Fryer applied the translation method of creating new words or characters in the translation of chemical terminology. Members of the School and Textbook Series Committee, including John Fryer and Calvin Wilson Mateer, made great contributions to theories and strategies for translation, which keep inspiring Chinese–English translation of terminology and its theoretical construction.

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Section: Theoretical Convergence and Opinion Divergence In The Transl...mentioning

confidence: 99%