Translation Quality Assessment: past and present

Translation Quality Assessment has become one of the key issues in translation studies. This comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of translation evaluation makes explicit the grounds of judging the worth of a translation and emphasizes that translation is, at its core, a linguistic art. Written by the author of the world's best known model of translation quality assessment, Juliane House provides an overview of relevant contemporary interdisciplinary research on intercultural communication and globalization research, corpus and psycho- and neurolinguistic studies. House also acknowledges the.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Permissions; 1 Translation theory and translation quality assessment; What is translation?; Translation as intercultural communication and social action; Translation as a cognitive process; Translation and equivalence; 2 Different approaches to translation theory and translation quality assessment; Psycho-social approaches; Response-based approaches; Text and discourse-oriented approaches; Some specific proposals for translation quality assessment.

3 The original House model of translation quality assessment (1977)Fundamental concepts; Functions of language are not functions of texts!; The design of the original model of translation quality assessment; Operation of the original model; Original method of analysing and comparing texts; The original evaluation scheme; 4 Implementation of the original House model; Commercial text (ST English; TT German); Analysis of ST and Statement of Function; ST and TT comparison and Statement of Quality; 5 Refining the original model on the basis of the results of test cases; A translation typology.

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