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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1853594148 ISBN 13: 9781853594144

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 1998

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Christina Schäffner is Professor Emerita at Aston University, Birmingham. Until her retirement in September 2015 she was the Head of Translation Studies at Aston, teaching courses in translation studies, interpreting, and supervising Master dissertations and PhD students.  Her main research interests are: political discourse in translation, news translation, metaphor in translation, and translation didactics, and she has published widely on these topics. Major publications include Political Discourse, Media and Translation (edited with S. Bassnett 2010), Translation research and Interpreting research: Traditions, gaps and synergies (2004) and Politics as Text and Talk. Analytic Approaches to Political Discourse (edited with P. Chilton, 2002).

Edition details

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853594148
• ISBN 13: 9781853594144
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: Schäffner Christina