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• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• Permissions
• 1 Translation Theory and Translation Quality Assessment
• What is translation?
• Translation as intercultural communication and social action
• Translation as a cognitive process
• Translation and equivalence
• 2 Different Approaches to Translation Theory and Translation Quality Assessment
• Psycho-social approaches
• Response-based approaches
• Text and discourse-oriented approaches
• Some specific proposals for translation quality assessment
• 3 The Original House Model of Translation Quality Assessment (1977)
• Fundamental concepts
• Functions of language are not functions of texts!
• The design of the original model of translation quality assessment
• Operation of the original model
• Original method of analysing and comparing texts
• The original evaluation scheme
• 4 Implementation of the Original House Model
• Commercial text (ST English; TT German)
• Analysis of ST and Statement of Function
• ST and TT comparison and Statement of Quality
• 5 Refining the Original Model on the Basis of the Results of Test Cases
• A translation typology
• Overt translation
• Covert translation
• Distinguishing between different types of translations and versions
• 6 The Revised House Model of Translation Quality Assessment (1997)
• Overt and covert translation
• The cultural filter
• 7 Implementation of the Revised 1997 Model A test case
• Children’s book text (ST English; TT German)
• Analysis of ST and Statement of Function
• ST and TT comparison and Statement of Quality
• 8 Contrastive Pragmatics, Intercultural Communication and Understanding Their relevance for cultural filtering in translation quality assessment
• Contrastive pragmatics
• As an example: contrastive discourse analyses: German–English
• Five dimensions of cross-cultural difference: English–German
• Intercultural communication and intercultural understanding
• 9 Globalization and its Relevance for Cultural Filtering in Translation Quality Assessment
• Globalization of discourse
• 10 Corpus Studies and their Relevance for the Notion of Genre in a Model for Translation Quality Assessment
• Analysis of the translation relation
• 11 Cognitive Translation-Related Research and its Relevance for Translation Quality Assessment
• 12 Towards a New Integrative Model of Translation Quality Assessment
• Excerpt from Unilever Annual Report (2000)
• Analysis of the original English text along the lines of the newly revised model
• Statement of Function
• Comparison of original and translation
• Statement of Quality
• Bibliography
• Index