Hansjörg Bittner

Evaluating the Evaluator (eBook, PDF)

A Novel Perspective on Translation Quality Assessment

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a theoretical framework for assessing translation quality grounded in supportive argumentation and outlines a systematic framework for translators and translation critics to substantiate their decisions and judgments on a translation's quality and with negative criticism, put forward a more effective translation solution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000767629
• Artikelnr.: 58331473

Autorenporträt

Hansjörg Bittner served as a lecturer at Eastern Mediterranean University (English Literature) and at the University of Hildesheim (Translation Studies). His publications cover poetics, translation theory, and audiovisual translation. A practising translator, he is currently a lecturer at Hof University of Applied Sciences, teaching business English and technical English.

Inhaltsangabe

IntroductionThe quality of translation: different approachesJuliane HouseMalcolm WilliamsHeidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast and Klaus MudersbachErnst-August GuttOther approaches to translation qualityApproaches to translation quality in the twentieth centuryApproaches to translation quality in the twenty-first centuryPreliminary assumptionsDefining translation quality and translation quality assessmentSome thoughts on measuring qualitySome thoughts on achieving good qualityRevisiting overt and covert translationRefining the concept of overt/covert translation: overviewRefining the concept of overt/covert translation: detailed discussionThe problem of subjective evaluationThe problem of subjectivity from a philosophical point of viewThe process of translation quality assessmentThe problem of subjectivity from a translation studies point of viewHow to curb the subjective in translation quality assessmentTowards evaluating the evaluatorSome views on how to evaluate translationsThe evaluation of commented translationsQuality factors of translationThe translator's daffodilUnderlying assumptionsFactor categoriesSource textLanguage pairs in translation and source text analysis (Nord)Sender and sender's intentionAudience and mediumPlace and time of communicationMotive for communication and text functionSource text defectsSummary of source text factorsText formIntratextual factorsSubject matter and contentText composition and non-verbal elementsLexis, syn