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2022 — Technical Translation in a Commercial Context: A Focus on Festo DidacticAbstract
This thesis reports the results of an empirical case study exploring two technical translation processes of Festo Didactic, a multinational producer of digital and non-digital technical and technological learning material. Data was collected through surveys, interviews, observation, and documents. Skopos theory and business and project management principles were used to bring into special focus the constraining conditions in which technical translations are produced in a commercial context, which help determine translation quality. Because technical translation deals with the application by some user of a technology or scientific theory, the importance of users and related questions of usability, terminology and safety … Read more