Overcoming the scientific translation challenges : examples from English into Arabic

Abstract EN

Translation is an act of transferring text from one language into another; this act requires some skills that can be divided into two types linguistic and extra- linguistic skills.

As we live in globalization era which is characterized with the dominance of English as universal language of scientific inventions and communication, translation has a paramount role to contribute in the scientific dissemination.

The scientific texts are considered as a challenge for the translator since they contain terms and scientific topics, to overcome these challenges the translator has to be familiar with terminology in one hand and with scientific topics in other hand.

This article aims at shedding light on scientific language features, in addition to determine the different problems of the scientific translation, in order to establish approaches to scientific translation by analyzing translated scientific examples.