Translation Quality Assessment: An Argumentation-Centred Approach

by Malcolm Williams

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0776605844
• ISBN13: 9780776605845
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"