2011-09-022024-05-17https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/678578摘要：過去十年，許多國家的專利局在專利申請件數上皆有顯著的成長(Tsai 2008)。全球化的專利申請方式刺激專利翻譯的需求，以期在國外專利局申請專利保護及增加國際能見度。因此，申請案件的成功與否，譯文的品質佔了很重要的地位。在中文專利文件英譯的研究中(Tsai 2010) 發現，專利文件用語重複性高，而重複的文字在翻譯過程中亦予以保留，導致專利英譯文件的重複性亦高。這些重複的字詞當中，如在省略後不會更動其原意，即可視為贅字，因此本研究將探討專利摘要的贅詞種類及其必要性，使其譯文更為簡潔流暢。 本計畫旨在研究專利文件贅字的必要性，進而精簡原文的語言架構，使譯文更為流暢易讀。藉由建立平行語料庫(parallel corpora)，專利文件的中文及譯文文本可分開收錄對照，以期了解特定詞在中文及譯文中的功用及必要性。比較語料庫(comparable corpora)的建立，有助於比較英文為原文的文本與英文為譯文的文本，探討特定詞在兩組相同語言不同文本的使用差異。中文及英文專利文件中出現的贅詞可因此而有系統的解析。 本研究結果不僅可作為改善專利翻譯的指標，譯者亦可藉由本研究結果進一步了解專利語言特性及贅詞的可譯與不可譯，以呈現高接受度的譯文，對於專利翻譯教學及翻譯理論亦有所助益。 <br> Abstract: The past decade has seen a dramatic growth in patent applications in many patent offices (Tsai 2008). The development of worldwide patent filings has stimulated the demand for patent translations to file patents in foreign patent systems for patent right protection and international visibility. In order for an application to be successful, the quality of the translation is of crucial importance. The investigation of English translations of Chinese patent abstracts conducted by Tsai (2010) has found that patent language displays high frequencies and low varieties in word usage. This is also indicative of high repetitions, of which some can be redundant. ‘Pleonasm’, or the use of more words than necessary to express a concept, is often carried over from the Chinese source text into the English translations, which sometimes resulted in sub-standard translation quality. The proposed study aims to observe the necessity and the types of pleonastic words in patent texts and patent translations by compiling a comparable corpus and a parallel corpus. This pioneering compilation of comparable and parallel patent text/translation corpora is of great significance, as the appropriateness of translations cannot be fully commented on if there is nothing to compare them with. With a parallel corpus, the use of pleonastic language in both Chinese and English can be further investigated and analyzed. The collection of a comparable corpus compares texts of the same language, one with English as the original, and the other with English as the translated text. A bigger range of data would also make findings more generalizable and facilitate systematic analysis of pleonasms in patent texts. The investigation of pleonastic language in patent texts with the use of corpora can serve as an indicator for improvements on patent translations, so that translators can be guided to provide a more acceptable translation. The findings may also contribute to patent translation pedagogy and enrich translation literature.專利翻譯贅詞語料庫譯文品質patent translationpleonasmcorpustranslation quality