• Consistency in Terminological Choice: Holy Grail or False Prophet? 

      Rogers, Margaret (Journal article, 2008)
      The aim of this contribution is to problematise the notion of consistency in relation to terminological choice in the context of technical writing and translation. It is argued that the conventional wisdom of terminolog ...
    • LSP Translation and Creativity 

      Rogers, Margaret (Journal article, 2011)
      Specialised or LSP translation is often compared unfavourably with literary translation in terms of the creative input required from the translator to produce a „good‟ translation. The supposed formulaic nature of LSP texts ...
    • Naturalness and Translation 

      Rogers, Margaret (Journal article, 1998)
      In this paper I would like to address some of the issues which impinge on our understanding of 'naturalness'. While on the one hand it has been associated negatively with cultural assimilation from a literary perspective, ...
    • Terminological equivalence in technical translation: A problematic concept? 

      Rogers, Margaret (Journal article, 2007)
      A St. Jerome’s Day lecture provides a welcome chance to make one of those satisfyingly unexpected links: between Bible and technical translation. The Bible is not generally thought of as a technical text but some of the ...
    • Terms as dynamic entities: problems and solutions in translation 

      Rogers, Margaret (Journal article, 2003)
      It is a common assumption that technical terms and their meanings can be more easily matched across special languages than in general language. While there may be some truth in this assumption for a subset of terms, the ...