The paper presents a descriptive model for measuring the salient traits and tendencies of a translation as compared with the source text. We present some results from applying the model to the texts of the Linköping Translation Corpus (LTC) that have been produced by different kinds of translation aids, and discuss its application to MT evaluation.

In the present paper, we analyse variation of discourse phenomena in two typologically different languages, i.e. in German and Czech. The novelty of our approach lies in the nature of the resources we are using. Advantage is taken of existing resources, which are, however, annotated on the basis of two different frameworks. We use an interoperable scheme unifying discourse phenomena in both fra...

The first part of this paper looks at how creativity has been explored in writings in the field of translation studies. It examines the stages in creative translation and investigates the creative process. The second part of the paper looks at how creativity can be exploited in the translation class by concentrating in particular on the liberating role of intralingual and interlingual paraphras...

The translation process is regarded as a complex cognitive process and one of the core topics in cognitive translatology. Unlike how machine translation post-editing works, which only needs a machine translation result, we divide the translation process into several cognitive subtasks and use the technology in MT to help the implementation of each subtask. We aim to make each subtask completed ...

Culture issues in translation have attracted increasing attention among Chinese translators since 1980s. On the basis of modern translatology, Chinese scholars have done a series of fruitful researches on translation from many perspectives including culturalogy, cross-cultural communication and cultural linguistics. Chinese are deeply influenced by Chinese cultural philosophy. They stress on th...

The comparison of texts in different languages inevitably involves a theory of equivalence. Equivalence has been one of the central issues in translation although its definition, relevance, and applicability within the field of translation theory have caused heated controversy. In an effort to explore translation equivalence in terms of the reader’s response, this article intends to obtain a pl...

The discussion of “turns” or “paradigmatic shifts” which we can witness in the last few years in Translation Studies undoubtedly testifies to the discipline’s increasing establishment and recognition within the scientific community and of the increasing practice of a transdisciplinary research. These shifts also include what has been called the “sociological turn”, which comprises the cluster o...