Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The article explores compression in English scientific and technical texts, defining it as the process of reducing linguistic elements without sacrificing essential information. Compression is a key feature of this genre, where high accuracy, conciseness, and informational density are paramount. Various linguistic levels of compression are analyzed: phonetic, morphological, lexical, and syntactic. At the phonetic level, compression is achieved through reduction, assimilation, dissimilation, elision, and accommodation, enhancing linguistic economy and speeding up information transmission. Morphologically, the main tools include univerbation, abbreviation, compounding, telescoping, and truncation, all of which reduce linguistic elements while preserving informativeness. Lexical compression employs abbreviations, acronyms, specialized terms, compounding, and borrowings, allowing clarity for specialists by eliminating unnecessary explanations. At the syntactic level, compression uses ellipsis, asyndetic constructions, infinitives, participial and gerundial constructions, and syntactic incompleteness to remove redundancies while maintaining semantic integrity. These techniques contribute to efficient language use and increase informational density, essential for conveying complex technical data. The article also outlines various methods for translating compressed syntactic structures, using examples from English scientific and technical texts in the field of aviation engineering. Compression in the translation of English scientific and technical texts into Ukrainian is examined.
Source: Advanced Linguistics
Authors: Olha Vashchylo, Yevheniia Roman
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405820101