Evaluating the Evaluator
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Actual Translation Process
argumentation theory
assessment
Audio Description
Author_Hansjorg Bittner
Betz's Theory
Betz’s Theory
Binary Error
Bittner
Cat Tool
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Category=CJ
Category=DS
commented translations
Covert Translation
cross-cultural communication
Dialectical Structure
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eq_biography-true-stories
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
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eq_isMigrated=2
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Error Count
evaluating
evaluator
evaluator's dilemma
Examiner's Report
Examiner’s Report
Juliane House
linguistic evaluation methods
Mandatory Arguments
novel
Overt Translation
overt-covert distinction
perspective
quality
Sender's Intention
Sender’s Intention
Sind Sie
Source Text
Source Text Analysis
Source Text Unit
systematic translation quality analysis
Target Text
Target Text Reader
the
TQA
Translated Text
translation
translation auality assessment
translation criticism
Translation Quality
Translation Solution
Translation Strategy
translation studies
translator competence assessment
translator's daffodil
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- ISBN 9781032083087
- Weight: 412g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Aug 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book offers a theoretical framework for assessing translation quality grounded in supportive argumentation. The volume outlines a systematic framework for translators and translation critics to substantiate their decisions and judgments on a translation’s quality and in the case of negative criticism, put forward a more effective translation solution. The book traces the decision-making process underpinning translation practice, considering the different factors surrounding a particular translation to inform the most appropriate translation strategy, such as the temporal and geographical relationship between source and target texts, special provisions required by clients, timeframe, qualifications, and sociocultural and political issues. The framework posits that such factors should underpin any arguments used by the translator in adopting a given strategy and in turn, that any criticism of a translation’s quality must be in line with the same argumentative structure. Applied to a corpus of translation examiners’ reports of translation, the book demonstrates how this framework can act as a tool to be scaled to fit the needs of the different actors of a translation – translators, critics, and scholars. This book will be of interest to scholars in translation studies and practicing translators.
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.
