LSP Translation Challenges: The Case of Disruptive Technologies Discourse

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Published: Jul 7, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64120/7hbtf208
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specialized language; disruptive technologies; translation challenges; terminology.

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Dieudonné Toukam
Dalhousie University, Canada

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Against a backdrop of shortage of studies on the discourse of disruptive technologies (including artificial intelligence, data science, and blockchain), especially from an English-French contrastive perspective, this paper seeks to explore the main characteristics of such a specialized language and examine some of the many translation challenges it hauls. The database for our study is a bilingual comparable corpus made up of original texts by domain specialists, consisting of some five million words, and built following principles of creating corpora for terminology and translation purposes (Gamallo, 2019; Sharoff et al., 2013). Our findings show that the disruptive technologies discourse is characterized by features such as the prevalence of lexical economy and synonymy, as well as the use of metaphor and metonymy in terms formation. Moreover, this study addresses some of the many translation challenges of the domain while suggesting tips for outstanding others.

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Toukam, D. (2026). LSP Translation Challenges: The Case of Disruptive Technologies Discourse. Research Journal in Translation, Literature, Linguistics, and Education, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.64120/7hbtf208
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Toukam, D. (2026). LSP Translation Challenges: The Case of Disruptive Technologies Discourse. Research Journal in Translation, Literature, Linguistics, and Education, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.64120/7hbtf208
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