The speck in your brother's eye – the beam in your own: Quality management in translation and revision
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Gyde Hansen
Abstract
Global and national changes have resulted in new requirements for quality management and quality control in translation. International standards like the recent European Quality Standard for Translation Services, EN 15038 (2006), have been developed in order to give clients an assurance that they are receiving high-quality translation work. According to some of these standards, target texts have to be revised at least twice or, ideally, three times by others than the translator him/herself. Revision and revision processes have also come more into focus in TS research. According to Gile (2005), who has developed a mathematical formula that defines quality as the balanced sum of quality parameters, revision tasks are usually carried out by experienced translators. In two empirical longitudinal studies at CBS, the relation between translation competence and revision competence of students and professional translators was investigated. The question posed was: “are the good translators also the good revisers?” In this article, quality parameters and revision processes are described and shown in models. The question is raised whether it would be an advantage to establish special training in revision, parallel to the translator training.
Abstract
Global and national changes have resulted in new requirements for quality management and quality control in translation. International standards like the recent European Quality Standard for Translation Services, EN 15038 (2006), have been developed in order to give clients an assurance that they are receiving high-quality translation work. According to some of these standards, target texts have to be revised at least twice or, ideally, three times by others than the translator him/herself. Revision and revision processes have also come more into focus in TS research. According to Gile (2005), who has developed a mathematical formula that defines quality as the balanced sum of quality parameters, revision tasks are usually carried out by experienced translators. In two empirical longitudinal studies at CBS, the relation between translation competence and revision competence of students and professional translators was investigated. The question posed was: “are the good translators also the good revisers?” In this article, quality parameters and revision processes are described and shown in models. The question is raised whether it would be an advantage to establish special training in revision, parallel to the translator training.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
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Scientometrics and history
- An author-centred scientometric analysis of Daniel Gile's œuvre 3
- The turns of Interpreting Studies 25
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Conceptual analysis
- The status of interpretive hypotheses 49
- Stratégies et tactiques en traduction et interprétation 63
- On omission in simultaneous interpreting: Risk analysis of a hidden effort 83
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Research skills
- Doctoral training programmes: Research skills for the discipline or career management skills? 109
- Getting started: Writing communicative abstracts 127
- Construct-ing quality 143
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Empirical studies
- How do experts interpret? Implications from research in Interpreting Studies and cognitive science 159
- The impact of non-native English on students' interpreting performance 179
- Evaluación de la calidad en interpretación simultánea: Contrastes de exposición e inferencias emocionales. Evaluación de la evaluación 193
- Linguistic interference in simultaneous interpreting with text: A case study 215
- Towards a definition of Interpretese: An intermodal, corpus-based study 237
- The speck in your brother's eye – the beam in your own: Quality management in translation and revision 255
- Publications by Daniel Gile 281
- Name index 295
- Subject index 299
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
-
Scientometrics and history
- An author-centred scientometric analysis of Daniel Gile's œuvre 3
- The turns of Interpreting Studies 25
-
Conceptual analysis
- The status of interpretive hypotheses 49
- Stratégies et tactiques en traduction et interprétation 63
- On omission in simultaneous interpreting: Risk analysis of a hidden effort 83
-
Research skills
- Doctoral training programmes: Research skills for the discipline or career management skills? 109
- Getting started: Writing communicative abstracts 127
- Construct-ing quality 143
-
Empirical studies
- How do experts interpret? Implications from research in Interpreting Studies and cognitive science 159
- The impact of non-native English on students' interpreting performance 179
- Evaluación de la calidad en interpretación simultánea: Contrastes de exposición e inferencias emocionales. Evaluación de la evaluación 193
- Linguistic interference in simultaneous interpreting with text: A case study 215
- Towards a definition of Interpretese: An intermodal, corpus-based study 237
- The speck in your brother's eye – the beam in your own: Quality management in translation and revision 255
- Publications by Daniel Gile 281
- Name index 295
- Subject index 299
