Translation and Quality (Current Issues in Language and Society) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1853594148 ISBN 13: 9781853594144

Verlag: Multilingual Matters, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

This book deals with translation quality assessment. In the main contribution, Hans G. Honig gives an outline of a functionalist approach to translation, for which the purpose of the target text is the most important criterion. Honig argues for self-confident translators whose decisive qualification is their knowledge of what texts are used for and how they achieve their effects. Various examples from real translations illustrate the arguments of a functionalist approach. Consequences for translator training are then discussed, with Honig differentiating between diagnosis and therapy. Different approaches to translation lead to different concepts of translation quality. This is obvious both in the debate and in the replies by Gunilla Anderman and Margaret Rogers, Peter Bush, Kirsten Malmkjr, Peter Newmark, and Mark Shuttleworth, who take a more or less critical stance towards a functionalist approach.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Christina Schaffner is a lecturer in German in the Department of Languages and European Studies at Aston University (Birmingham, UK) and Co-director of the Institute for the Study of Language and Society. Her main research interests are translation studies, political discourse, textlinguistics, and metaphors. Her publications include Gibt es eine prototypische Wortschatzbeschreibung? (ed., 1990), Language and Peace (co-edited with Anita Wenden, 1995), Cultural Functions of Translation (co-edited with Helen Kelly-Holmes, 1995), Conceiving of Europe - Diversity in Unity? (co-edited with Andreas Musolff and Michael Townson, 1996), Discourse and Ideologies (co-edited with Helen Kelly-Holmes, 1996), Analysing Political Speeches (ed., 1997) and articles in various journals.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Multilingual Matters
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1853594148
• ISBN 13: 9781853594144
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 89
• Herausgeber: Schaffner Christina
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar