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TEXT III (scientific)
This is an excerpt from a purely scientific book. The book
"Introduction to Embryonic Development" is written by Steven B
Oppenheimer and published in 1944 by Allen and Bacon Inc., Boston,
Massachusetts. The text covers pages 360 through 363. It deals with
diagnosis and treatment of tumours.
The translation of scientific texts is unique in character and
approach. It differs, basically, from non-scientific and literary
translation. Though it is expository in its predominant generic
nature, a scientific text does notassume the status or scope of
poetic, narrative, dramatic, or even argumentative texts. Robert de
Beaugrande (1980, p198) asserts that, "In scientific texts, the textual
world is expected to provide an optimal match with the accepted real
world unless there are explicit signals to the contrary (eg. a
disproven theory). Rather than alternative organization of the world,
a more exact and detailed insight into the established organization of
the real world is intended. In effect, the linkages of events and
situations are eventually de-problematized via statements of causal
necessity and order". Expressive rather than impressive, scientific
translation should candidly mirror the realities of the established
world, from which the textual world is not expected, nor intended, to
digress. The linkage deviceS, or cohesive ties, which bind up
situations and events are subject to the laws of logic and causality.
The skeletal structure, in which the backbone of the message-content is
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