Translation excellence : assessment, achievement, maintenance / / edited by Marilyn Gaddis Rose

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (158 p.)
• Disciplina: 418
• Soggetto topico: Translating and interpreting; Translating services
• Altri autori: Gaddis RoseMarilyn
• Note generali: Published 1987 by the University Center at Binghamton (SUNY).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Translation Excellence -- Editorial page -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Editor's Note: What Translation Excellence Entails -- ATA's Commitment to Excellence -- The Perfect Translation - Ideal and Reality -- Fidelity in the Hieronymian Sense -- ATA Accreditation and Excellence in Practice -- Professionalism in Academic Programs -- The Proposed ATA Program Accreditation -- Symposium: Foreign Language Proficiency Criteria in Translation -- Using the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines to Assess Reading and Writing in Translation Programs -- Language Proficiency and Translation -- Revising the ACTFL/ETS Scales for a New Purpose: Rating Skill in Translating -- Reading and Writing Tests at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center -- Establishing Project-Specific Criteria for Acceptability of Translations -- The Recruitment of Translators/Précis-Writers at the United Nations and Quality Control of Translations -- Recruitment and Retention of Staff and Freelance Translators: Experience at One International Agency -- Languages in the Federal Government -- Current And Future Translation Trends In Aeronautics and Astronautics -- Translation Excellence in the Private Sector -- The Social Responsibility of Literary Translators Today -- Anthony Kerrigan: The Attainment of Excellence in Translation -- Contributors -- Call for Proposals: Technology as Translation Strategy -- Corporate Members -- Institutional Members.
• Sommario/riassunto: This inaugural volume transcends its archival value. Indeed, taken as a whole, the essays pose a provocation for both translation practice and theory. The criteria proposed and the issues examined remain the same. Absolute excellence, however, continues to move beyond the horizon, and changes in technology and taste inevitably change both the implementation of the criteria and the evaluation of the issues. The attendant ambiguities may stem from a parenthesis in the volume: does excellence lie in the "X-factor that elusive quality which renders one translation clearly superior to others"?.
• Titolo autorizzato: Translation excellence
• ISBN: 1-283-05138-9; 9786613051387; 90-272-8622-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827987403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American Translators Association scholarly monograph series ; ; v. 1.