Analysis of terminology in the translations of defence industry texts

YILDIZ ÖNER, Saniye. Analysis of Terminology in The Translations of Defence Industry Texts, Master's Thesis, Ankara, 2020. In the new world order, defence Industry has been one of the most vital factors in determining economic and political power of the countries due to the increasing need for security. Therefore, innovation and modernization are continuously needed to maintain technological sovereignty in defence industry and role of translation is indispensable in the provision of the continuity of these developments and changes. The fact that this field of industry plays a crucial role in the struggle of a country against global threats and keeping up with the new developments around the world necessitates the transfer of technology that brings about the need for enormous translation work, giving rise to the emergence of lots of new concepts and terminology, which is crucial for common language used by the shareholders in the production and management of technology. This brings forth a new dimension in the field of terminology management, and the problems regarding the terminology management in defence sector must be handled with an academic mind style. This thesis aims at raising awareness about the need for accurate and standardized terminology by means of analyzing the procedures employed in the translation of defence industry terms where high use of borrowing procedure, and existence of nonstandardized terminology are observed. To that end, firstly, the overall comparison of the source and the translated texts is made within the scope of Skopos theory to see if translated texts are acceptable and to see to what extent the translation serves the purpose. Then, the analyses are made both at the syntactic and lexical levels that will provide a closer look at the appropriateness of the equivalances in the target language. With the aim of revealing all procedures used in the translations of defence terms, product catalogues of Presidency of Defence Industries were examined in detail. All detected terms were recorded with their translations. A set of terms were analyzed in light of Vinay and Darbelnet's translation procedures, and frequently used procedures were determined and their appropriateness was reviewed. Finally, a glossary of terms was presented to provide a supplementary material emphasizing the need for a comprehensive dictionary of defence industry terms for standardized use of terms and providing insight for the future studies on translation and terminology in this sector. Keywords: Translation of Defence Industry Texts, Skopos Theory, Translation Methods of Vinay Darbelnet, Terminology