In:Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training: Third edition
Daniel Gile
[Benjamins Translation Library 173] 2026
► pp. 32–69
Chapter 2Communication and quality in interpreting and translation
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Article outline
- 1.Aims and overview of this chapter
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Professional Translation is primarily a communication act
- 2.1School translation vs. professional translation
- 2.2Who is involved in professional Translation? Common configurations
- 2.3Configurations in professional Translation: Other parties involved
- 2.4The Principals’ awareness of Translation
- 3.Aims and intentions in verbal communication and in Translation
- 3.1Authors’ aims and intentions in verbal communication
- 3.1.1Communication — but not always
- 3.1.2The Texts’ targeted effects
- 3.1.3Aims can be layered
- 3.2Overall aims vs. local aims
- 3.1Authors’ aims and intentions in verbal communication
- 4.The Translation’s skopos and its corollaries
- 5.The Translator’s role
- 6.So whose aims, intentions and interests do professional
Translators serve? Loyalty options - 7.Translation quality: A multi-dimensional construct
- 7.1Content, form/packaging and value-for-cost
- 7.1.1Packaging
- 7.1.2The Message
- 7.1.3Value-for-cost
- 7.2Behavioural components of quality
- 7.3Translation quality also depends on factors beyond the Translators’ control
- 7.4Quality perception is relative and variable
- 7.5The Principals’ position in the Translation-mediated communication
configuration affects their ability to assess Translation
quality
- 7.5.1Authors
- 7.5.2Receivers of the target-language Text
- 7.5.3Clients
- 7.5.4The Translators performing the assignment
- 7.5.5Revisors
- 7.6Motivation, attention and other biases in Translation quality perception
- 7.7Quantifying interpreting quality?
- 7.1Content, form/packaging and value-for-cost
- 8.Social status and quality
- 9.Teaching suggestions
- 10.What students need to understand and remember
- Translation serves not Texts, but people and their aims
- Loyalty
- Quality optimization and conflicting loyalty interests
- Behavioural quality components
- Quality assessment
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