A corpus-based aproach within Juliane House’s Model for Translation Quality Assessment

Authors

  • Evandro Lisboa Freire LAEL/PUC-SP, São Paulo, Brasil

Keywords:

translation studies, applied linguistics, translation quality assessment, corpus-based approach

Abstract

This paper proposes an overt adaptation to Juliane House’s Model for Translation Quality Assessment (hereafter HMTQA) (House, 1997) in order to merge its macro-analytical framework with a lexical and syntactic corpus-based approach to evaluate translation quality. To do so, fi rstly we introduce HMTQA; secondly we argue why a corpusbased approach, along with aligning source text (ST) to translated text (TT), may play an operative role within HMTQA; fi nally we present an application of our proposal. It concerns the translation of O papel do Itamaraty from Portuguese into English: this text provides a general introduction to the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) from the point of view of this governmental body.

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Author Biography

Evandro Lisboa Freire, LAEL/PUC-SP, São Paulo, Brasil

Evandro Lisboa Freire works as a text editor for publications, publishing houses, marketing services, and academic researchers. Currently developing a M.A. research at the Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil (LAEL/PUC-SP), his fi elds of interest are Applied Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Genre Analysis, and Translation Studies.

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How to Cite

Freire, E. L. (2011). A corpus-based aproach within Juliane House’s Model for Translation Quality Assessment. The ESPecialist, 30(2). Retrieved from https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/esp/article/view/6234

Issue

Vol. 30 No. 2 (2009)

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Papers

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