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Vol. 30:2 (2018) ► pp.310–331

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Re-thinking translation quality

Revision in the digital age

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Published online: 14 March 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/target.16104.mel
Abstract
Editing and revision are regularly incorporated into professional translation projects as a means of quality assurance. Underlying the decision to include these tasks in translation workflows lay implicit assumptions about what constitutes quality. This article examines how quality is operationalized with respect to editing and revision and considers these assumptions. The case is made for incorporating revision into translation quality assessment models and employs the concepts of adequacy, distributed cognition, and salience – and their treatment in the research on cognitive translation processes, post-editing, and translation technology – in order to re-think translation quality.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Revising and editing
  • 3.Revision and adequacy
  • 4.Revision and distributed cognition
  • 5.Revision and salience
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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