Domain Knowledge and bilingual, instrumental, and Knowledge About Translation Sub-Competences in Translation Quality Assessment
A study from the evaluator’s perspective
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https://doi.org/10.14393/LL63-v35n2-2019-5Keywords:
Translation quality assessment, Domain knowledge, Knowledge about translation sub-competence, Instrumental sub-competence, Bilingual sub-competenceAbstract
This study investigates the impact of domain knowledge (SCARDAMALIA; BEREITER, 1991) and bilingual, instrumental and knowledge about translation sub-competences (PACTE, 2003) on the quality assessment of translated texts. Excerpts from an instruction manual translated from English to Portuguese by professional translators (LIPARINI CAMPOS, 2010) were evaluated by Brazilian informants, divided into four groups: bilinguals, from other occupations; professional translators; healthcare professionals; graduate-level translation students; translation instructors and certified professional translators, who should inform the criteria they use for quality assessment. The most informed criterion by the four groups was the equivalence of meaning with the source text, confirming that this is the main criterion for assessing the quality of the translated text (HOUSE, 2015), and the use of field specific vocabulary was the second most important criterion for the group of participants with health domain knowledge. In addition, the most explicit translations were best evaluated by all four groups.
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