Juliane house, hamburg, whose groundbreaking work on translation quality assessment. The persian translation of the book medical langmans embryology has been assessed based on house translation quality assessment tqa model. This comprehensive and uptodate treatment of translation evaluation makes explicit the grounds of judging the worth of a translation and emphasizes that translation is, at its core, a linguistic art. The revisited model was published in 1997 and can be circumscribed within discourse analysis, incorporat. As a result, many argue that translation quality assessment is a subjective task, which is vague and hard to define.
Pdf aspects of literary translation download full pdf. Tool for translation quality assessment a translation agency requested development of a multitenant translation quality assessment solution dynamically adjusting consumed cloud resources to the amount of files processed at any point in time. The first one is relationship between the source and target text. A digital online journal for translators, interpreters, and interested friends of the translation industry. Mar 07, 2018 it is crucial to discuss and define the key fundamentals for assessing translation quality. Industry knowledge conferences present brilliant opportunities. Apr 05, 2014 criticisms of jullianne house s model of translation quality assessment 1. However, it seems that from among these many approaches, a few of them sound promising.
Study of houses model of translation quality assessment on. Foreign linguistics and applied linguistics abstractsummary. This research aimed at detailed investigation of tqa on a medical text as a scientific text. A corpusbased study of englishgerman and germanenglish translations of business texts. Quality, assessment, house, polemical, model, application. The researchers tried to realize the overtly and covertly. In each post, we will tackle different concepts, techniques, and challenges in translation quality assessment. The broad thematic range aims at appealing to an array of scholars from various backgrounds but working in cutting edge areas of linguistics, striving for answers to both longstanding problems, such as translation quality and newfound issues as discourse analysis and cognitive approaches to translation. Translation quality assessment can thus be said to be at the heart of any theory of translation.
The role of discourse analysis in translation core. This book is a new treatment of translation quality assessment designed to update my two previous versions of a model for translation quality assessment house 1977, 1997. Houses newly revised translation quality assessment model. Unfortunately, there is no standard model for translation quality assessment, but the most elaborate. She doesnt spare the responsebased behavioural view, which aims at.
Translation quality assessment in the literary text based on house. Whether and how functional equivalence can be achieved critically depends on two empirically derived house 1981 types of translation, overt and covert translation. If you are a translator, interpreter, or someone seeking to learn more about the translation industry, youre in the right place. Seite 45 corpus study of the scientific american and its arabic version by trying to maximize similarities between essentially two different texts to the more realistic task of reducing translation loss by minimizing the differences between the st and the tt. Translation quality assessment free download as powerpoint presentation. Applying juliane houses translation quality assessment.
Conference room, faculty of human sciences cadi ayyad university, marrakech 11th march,2019. This study applied houses 1997 tqa model to two available english translations of some naz. Having authored an entire monograph on translation quality assessment, house is in a position to critically evaluate existing views on what makes a translation a good or bad one. Juliane house s book is much more than an updated edition of her earlier groundbreaking accounts of translation quality assessment. Houses translation quality assessment model in 1977, a model that she later revised, addressing some of the criticisms it had attracted munday, introducing translation studies 91. A lecture by professor julian house hellenic american univercity. Abstract house model on comparative sttt analysis is leading to the assessment of the quality of the translation, highlighting mismatches or errors. The concepts are hallidays systematic functional grammar, julian house model of translation quality assessment and katherine reiss text typology in translation. Therefore, i decided to try to make a translation quality assessment of a part of the text, using a model by juliane house. A model for translation quality assessment 1977 and revisited 1997 lets talk and talk about it. Explaining the quality assessment process in the quality assessment step, computer tools are used to detect inconsistencies, to ensure that the correct terms have been used, to check spelling and punctuation, and to check for multiple spaces, formatting errors. This analysis is through lexical, syntactic and textual means.
A model revisited volume 410 of tubinger beitrage zur linguistik, issn 05647959. In this blog series, we will endeavor to reach a common understanding of various translation quality concepts, tools, process and metrics. Not only will it one way or the other have to be part of the required quality management. Translation quality assessment by house, juliane ebook. In chapter 3, a number of tested models of translation quality assessment are. Juliane house is professor emeritus of applied linguistics at hamburg university, founding. It is the fruit of 40 years of research in translation from both professional and academic perspectives and the crowning achievement of a lifetimes devotion to testing and refining a theoretical model that reflects the true nature of translation. A translation quality assessment of two english translations of. Juliane house received her first degree in english and spanish translation and international law from heidelberg university, germany, her b.
Juliane house, translation article pdf available in english text construction 42 january 2011 with 3,736 reads how we measure reads. Dec 09, 2016 as a result, many argue that translation quality assessment is a subjective task, which is vague and hard to define. Quality assessment of translations one hour translation. How to get this dissertations electronic documents. The model for translation quality assessment by house 1997 as mentioned before, the initial questions in house s 1996 model for translation quality assessment are in three issues that she considers important in translation evaluation.
The role of discourse analysis in translation directory. One of the promising approaches is the translation quality assessment model provided by the german scholar julian house. Juliane house is professor of applied linguistics at the. This final step is known in the translation industry as qa or quality assessment. Julian house translation quality assessment model in. This period can be characterised by the market approach gaining ground. Julian houses translation quality assessment model for. Reza kafipour, english department, shiraz university of medical sciences, shiraz, iran. In translating, a text in one language is replaced by a functionally equivalent text in another language. Interlingual and intercultural communication 1986 with shoshana blumkulka. In this seminal work, juliane house discusses the seven situational dimensions of translation quality assessment. A case study of alice in wonderland shaotong chen ma interpreting 2012. House contends that to be able to decipher the intent of the source texts writer, it is incumbent on the translator to locate not.
Julian house translation quality assessment model model application clc. Secondly, it describes houses functionalpragmatic tqa model. House adopts a functional equivalence approach to translation, that is, the basic principle of translation is that the translation should match the original text in function. Some of the areas of research which have been affected by d. Multilingual communication volume 28 issue 3 sigrid dentler. This is a manual of literary translation and as such will be invaluable to students of linguistics, translation, literary theory and cultural studies. Foreign linguistics and applied linguistics keywords.
Journal on english as a foreign language foreignization. A model for translation quality assessment juliane house. Translation quality assessment of popular science articles. Criticisms of jullianne house s model of translation quality assessment 1. Reviews juliane house s book is much more than an updated edition of her earlier groundbreaking accounts of translation quality assessment. This study, concerning julian house s 2015 newly revised translation quality assessment model, aimed at two things. Assessing translation of advertising text englishpersian. She doesnt spare the responsebased behavioural view, which aims at scientifically testing the. Williams counters that a judgment of translation quality should be based primarily on the success with which the translator has rendered the reasoning, or argument structure. Probst 2004 english as lingua franca in covert translation processes, the translator 210. House 1977 has developed a comprehensive linguistic model of translation quality assessment, which utilizes register variables, i. The results of the application of the model indicates that. Criticisms of jullianne houses model of translation.
Houses functionalpragmatic model of translation assessment and. This distinction is tied to a theory of translation house 1997, 2009. Most importantly, house argues that the era during which a text was written constitutes an indispensable extralinguistic component of the sl text that has to be translated into a target language. Interlingual and intercultural communication 1986 with. Ustream producer pro crack new version keeping the faith gloryholes and handjobs 2014 04 26. Footage of the discussion at the uea translation quality event organised by lcs. Conference series presented by juliane house 2019 kindi. Study of houses model of translation quality assessment on the short story and its translated text. A pedagogic interactional grammar of english 1981 with willis edmondson.
Analysis is a newly born trend called translation studies. In her model, julian house divides theories toward meaning into three categories, namely, mentalist view, responsebased view and discourse and text. Criticisms of jullianne houses model of translation quality. The application of house translation quality assessment. Pdf this study, concerning julian houses 2015 newly revised translation quality assessment model, aimed at two things. Footage of the discussion at the uea translation quality. The role of discourse analysis in translation directory of. House s newly revised translation quality assessment model in practice. An overview of translation quality assessment translation quality assessment tqa, as a comprehensive and uptodate treatment of translation evaluation makes explicit the grounds of judging the worth of a translation and emphasizes that translation is, at its core, a linguistic operation house, 2015, p. Julian house s translation quality assessment model for interpretation quality assessment. Furthermore, it attempts to define translation and translation quality whilst also tackling the issue of ideology in translation. Multilingual communication studies in second language. On study of how the time of translation of a book affects. She categories these dimensions into two basic prisms, namely the language user and language use.
Oct 07, 2014 translation quality assessment has become one of the key issues in translation studies. Errors in the translation of discourse markers from english into persian in movie subtitles. Applying juliane houses translation quality assessment model. In a nutshell, translation quality assessment by juliane house is required reading for anyone involved in or remotely interested in the art and craft. Her book publications include a model for translation quality assessment, interlingual and intercultural communication, crosscultural pragmatics, misunderstanding in social life, translation, multilingual communication. It aims at analyzing these concepts and terms in relation to translation studies. A translation quality assessment of two english translations. On how the time of translation affects englishchinese wordplay translation quality. Assessing translation quality of polemical texts by ahmad s. Julian house translation quality assessment model in \ author. Translation quality assessment has become one of the key issues in translation studies.