Translating Redmond O’Hanlon’s novel Trawler offered some extra challenges, as it also started a fervent hunt for terminology. My dismay was profound when I discovered that a fishery nation like Norway had no English– Norwegian ...

This essay is a study of giving rules and laws to people in Finland-and perhaps elsewhere-who wished how to behave. It starts with Old-Norse rules and goes to Modern times. A focus has been located on the multilingualism ...

It is argued here that the challenge posed by globalization, with English as its principal communication medium, requires decisive and defensive action on behalf of Norwegian special language and terminology, and that ...

The call for crossdisciplinary research is having a stronger resonance in science and investigation. In this paper I will argue that this also affects the study of terminology. By looking at the terminology of aquaculture, ...

The Norwegian king between 1299 and 1319 hence claimed in the preamble that Roman and Canon law had been harmful for the realm, and the laws to be observed by the inhabitants were those made by St. Olaf and his descendants ...

The transposition of legal terminology is perhaps one of the most difficult areas of translation, since there will rarely be complete or direct equivalence between concepts in two languages. I shall in this paper look ...

In this article we will address some pitfalls and shortcomings related to semi-automatic term extraction and an uncritical reliance on translational equivalents in parallel texts. After a short description of the KB-N ...

Translation Studies is a branch of memetics. This is a claim, a hypothesis. More specifically, it is an interpretive hypothesis: I claim that Translation Studies can be thus interpreted, and that this is a useful thing ...

For almost two decades now, mainstream corpus-based research in descriptive translation studies has focused on the computerized analysis of translated and comparable non-translated texts (so-called monolingual comparable ...