approaches to translating neologisms in physics

This paper aims to examine the strategies used by translators to translate neologisms from english into persian in the field of physics. the study utilized two reference books in physics and their persian translations as the corpus. the time gap of approximately two decades between the first and subsequent translated versions was examined to investigate any changes in translation strategies over time. a total of 120 neologisms were identified and categorized based on newmark’s (1988) classification, and their persian equivalents in both translated versions were compared. the study identified the translation strategies applied by the translators according to newmark’s (1988) proposed framework, and the frequency of each strategy was calculated. the results showed that combination (couplets, triplets) was the most commonly used strategy in both periods of the study. transference was the least commonly used strategy in the translated versions published in the 1360s (the first period of the study), while tl-derived word was the least commonly used strategy in the later translated versions. finally, the study found no significant changes in the applied translation strategies between the two periods examined.