engleski

Fishing equipment and stud units - beyond animal care, Surprising shifts of meaning in ESP collocations

In every scientific discipline, there are some specific terms that should be taught and learnt. Moreover, these concepts and terms should be expressed in a foreign language. Since the English language has become the most widespread language of communication in the world, there is a need to express all these concepts ideas and insights in English and vice versa: terms expressed in mother language, in our case Croatian, should be translated into English. Teaching, learning and translating special words and collocations, as the examples of lexical units, are probably major problem areas in this respect. Collocations appear when a sequence of words or terms co-occur more often than would be expected by chance, thus changing the meanings of previously isolated words. The aim of the paper is to explore the importance of collocations as well as context and situation, in the creation and utilization of collocations. Our particular field of interest were collocations found in texts dealing with petroleum engineering and dental medicine. We attempted to show how the core meaning expressed in one language is communicated in another, how this non-specific meaning becomes more specific in two different languages, that is the mother tongue and foreign language, and the differences that exist between the two languages analyzed. Apart from the theoretical linguistic approach, we also wanted to point out the importance of extra linguistic context, which is crucial in shaping the actual shades of meaning. We also endeavored to explain the complex relationship between lexical elements that combine to form collocations used in highly specific, scientific fields, in this case, in mining, geology and petroleum engineering and dental medicine.

collocation; context; dental medicine; petroleum engineering; translation

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