A Report of Translation on Words: A CAT Case Study of NCAA Manual

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220131.199How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Legal Constitution; Words Selection; Text Style

Abstract

There are massive rules and regulations in the NCAA Manual, text and its language is very formal and concise because it belongs to the legal text. This manual is about the National College Athletics Association, which introduces details of the implementation and management rules with a lot of terms and formal vocabularies.

During the process of translating this Manual, the author, based on the legal text and taking the reader into consideration, analyzed the words and sentences to find the accurate expressions and reach the translation purpose of “faith”. The report is divided into five parts. Part II is the introduction, which introduces the source of the translation project and the reason for doing this translation project. Next, it briefly introduces the National College Athletics Association. Part III describes the translation tool SDL Trados and how it helps do the translation work. Part IV analyzes the text and points out the characteristics of the NCAA Manual. Part V summarizes the translator’s personal experience and strategy applied during the translation process.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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AU  - Zhuang Ganlin
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TI  - A Report of Translation on Words: A CAT Case Study of NCAA Manual
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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