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Translation quality assessment : an argumentation-centred approach /

Outlining an original, discourse-based model for translation quality assessment that goes beyond conventional microtextual error analysis, Malcolm Williams explores the potential of transferring reasoning and argument as the prime criterion of translation quality. Assessment through error analysis i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Malcolm, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ottawa, Ont. : University of Ottawa Press, 2004.
Colección:Perspectives on translation.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Outlining an original, discourse-based model for translation quality assessment that goes beyond conventional microtextual error analysis, Malcolm Williams explores the potential of transferring reasoning and argument as the prime criterion of translation quality. Assessment through error analysis is inevitably based on an error count - an unsatisfactory means of establishing, and justifying, differences in quality that forces the evaluator to focus on subsentence elements rather than the key messages of the source text. Williams counters that a judgment of translation quality should be based.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xix, 188 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780776617367
0776617362