Errors and deficiencies in the translation of medical texts from English into Spanish

  1. Congost Maestre, Nereida
Livre:
Traducción e interpretación en el ámbito biosanitario
  1. Félix Fernández, Leandro (coord.)
  2. Ortega Arjonilla, Emilio (coord.)

Éditorial: Comares

ISBN: 84-8151-619-8

Année de publication: 1998

Pages: 47-55

Type: Chapitre d'ouvrage

Résumé

This paper is partly based on my book Problemas de la traducción técnica. Los textos médicos en inglés published in 1994 by the University of Alicante. I want to discuss technical translation and Pragmatics and, more specifically, the problems I have observed in the translation of medical texts from English into Spanish