Specific features of special discourse genres in information technology

The author analyses genres of special discourse related to information technology (IT) in terms of difficulties experienced by translators of scientific and technical texts in understanding them. For this purpose, surveys of professional translators were conducted which made it possible to identify the most typical genres: press release, instruction, corporate website and user’s manual. A discourse analysis was carried out of these genres according to specified criteria in order to compare and confirm the results of the survey as well as identify the easiest and the most difficult IT genres for translators to understand. © 2017, Slovenska Vzdelavacia Obstaravacia. All rights reserved.

Authors
Dolzhikova A. 1 , Kurilenko V. 1 , Biryukova Y. 1 , Rumyantseva N. 1 , Makarova M. 1 , Kulikova E. 1
Journal
XLinguae
Publisher
Slovenska Vzdelavacia Obstaravacia
Number of issue
3
Language
English
Pages
3-14
Status
Published
Link
External link
DOI
10.18355/XL.2017.10.03.01
Volume
10
Year
2017
Organizations
  • 1 RUDN University, Miklukho-Maklaya street, 6, Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation
  • 2 Russian language department, Medical Institute, RUDN University, Miklukho-Maklaya street, 6, Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation
  • 3 Russian Language Department, Russian Language and Basic Sciences Faculty, RUDN University, Miklukho-Maklaya street, 6, Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation
  • 4 Language Teaching and Testing of Migrants Centre, RUDN University, Miklukho-Maklaya street, 6, Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation
Keywords
Corporate website; Instruction; Press release; Special discourse genres in IT; Translation of scientific and technical texts; User manual
Date of creation
19.10.2018
Date of change
19.10.2018
Short link
https://repository.rudn.ru/en/records/article/record/5942/
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