The Analysis of New Words and Translations of New Words by Google Translate
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This research aimed to analyze the characteristics of new words added to an English dictionary and to investigate the translation strategies and the efficiency of Google Translate in translating new words. The study samples were drawn from a list of new words added in 2023 by the Oxford Learner Dictionary. The research is qualitative. The data collection was retrieving the new words, categorizing, analyzing the word origination, and translating the words both at the word level and the sentence level. The study revealed that 1) the new words were based on social change, technological development, medical health sciences, and general words, 2) Google Translate used three translation strategies to translate new words including word-for-word translation, communicative translation, and adaption, and 3) the efficiency of Google Translate depended on the characteristics of new words; in other words, new words with the references with old words could be translated precisely and communicatively while the new words and the words with functional shift could not be translated accurately which led to miscommunication.
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