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Peer reviewedSchaffner, Christina – Current Issues in Language and Society, 1997
Describes Translation Quality Assessment (TQA), an approach to evaluating translation that incorporates aspects of textlinguistic, pragmatic, and discourse models of translation and focuses on text as a communicative occurrence, within a specific context, rather than a series of words and grammatical structures. A functionalist approach to…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
