Evaluating the Evaluator

Introduction

The quality of translation: different approaches
Juliane House
Malcolm Williams
Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast and Klaus Mudersbach
Ernst-August Gutt
Other approaches to translation quality
Approaches to translation quality in the twentieth century
Approaches to translation quality in the twenty-first century

Preliminary assumptions
Defining translation quality and translation quality assessment
Some thoughts on measuring quality
Some thoughts on achieving good quality
Revisiting overt and covert translation
Refining the concept of overt/covert translation: overview
Refining the concept of overt/covert translation: detailed discussion
The problem of subjective evaluation
The problem of subjectivity from a philosophical point of view
The process of translation quality assessment
The problem of subjectivity from a translation studies point of view
How to curb the subjective in translation quality assessment
Towards evaluating the evaluator
Some views on how to evaluate translations
The evaluation of commented translations

Quality factors of translation
The translatorâs daffodil
Underlying assumptions
Factor categories
Source text
Language pairs in translation and source text analysis (Nord)
Sender and senderâs intention
Audience and medium
Place and time of communication
Motive for communication and text function
Source text defects
Summary of source text factors
Text form
Intratextual factors
Subject matter and content
Text composition and non-verbal elements
Lexis, syn