Evaluation/Assessment

Sonia Colina
University of Arizona
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A translated text is defined here as a text that fulfills and/or attempts to fulfill a specific function in a target culture (in accordance with a set of explicit or implicit instructions, known as the translation brief) and that bears a translation relationship to another text in another language; the specifics of a translation relationship (vs. version, adaptation) can vary from one culture to another. This discussion takes the position that a translated text comes about as the result of the interaction of social participants (minimally, the writer, the target language audience, and the translator) and a purpose.

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Further reading

Colina, Sonia
2009 “Further evidence for a functionalist approach to translation quality evaluation.” Target 21 (2): 215–244. DOI logo  TSBGoogle Scholar
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