Calitatea cărţii de specialitate reflectată în terminologie şi traducerea ei

Abstract

Abstract: Our article studies the role of books in researching terminology, paying considerable attention to its feature of being a reliable source of extracting terms from special languages. Therefore, we are to analyse term extraction from specialised literature taking into account quality standards of books sold on international sites like Amazon or Goodreads. We are to emphasize criteria of choosing books as quality term source starting with popularity indicators of the most appreciated texts and, if possible, their translation. Binomial related original book – translation (book) is to be assessed in a contrastive analysis of a bilingual corpus considering the books Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ? by Daniel Goleman and Emotions Revealed by Paul Ekman, that deal with cognitive psychology, and namely, emotional intelligence – one of the specialised domains of our research. Terminology translation is something we are to pay special attention to, but we will also look at the translation of the whole text in both books. We are to identify the degree of “acceptance” for these books as term sources in the aforementioned domain, based on the levels of specialisation of Maria Teresa Cabré, on the degree of vulgarization and the criteria for including them in specialised literature, considering the level of information and contribution to the development of the mentioned domain. As a result, the books have credits and are deemed as reliable because of terminological precision and other features of its conceptual system, being often translated for terminology enrichment purposes in the target language, trying to contribute at the same time to sharing knowledge to new domains like artificial intelligence. Our research will also include an analysis of the terminological imperfections, differences and disparities between the two texts.