Dr. Carlos F. Márquez Linares Dr. Enrique F. Quero Gervilla Doctoral Programme in Languages, Texts and Contexts Faculty of Translation and Interpreting university of granada

Calque and Descriptive Translation

The Calque and DT method appears to be between Pure DT and Calque, i.e. this term translation technique is both content and form oriented. The term forms, which partially preserve the initial form of the source term adding descriptive components, can be attributed to the Calque and DT method.

Calque and DT is more specific than Pure DT, but less concrete than Calque. For this reason, Calque and DT is not faced with the problems of ambiguity, generalization and unwieldy constructions, because basic term components are retrieved using Calque. On the other hand, Calque and DT risks making term components unjustifiably concrete, or higlighting incorrect meanings of components.

1. Сalque and DT. Single Unit Term.

In most cases, Calque and DT is used for terms, which consist of several words. However, it can be applied to one-word compound terms, which have several components. These terms usually have complicated forms and meanings.

The term supermajority represents such a case.