Function-based Translation Quality Assessment

Rudy Sofyan, Bahagia Tarigan

2018

Abstract

This article is aimed at (i) finding out the results of TQA using three TQA models, and (ii) developing a TQA model. The research used a descriptive qualitative method using a process-oriented translation as the approach. The data were the results of the assessment and the questionnaires from five raters. The raters were translation experts and professional translators who were asked to assess the TT by using three different TQA models. The first model (Model A) was proposed by Hurtado (1995), the second model (Model B) was proposed by Waddington (2001), and the third model (Model C) was proposed by Nababan et al. (2012). The TT assessed was entitled “Sejarah Awal Yellowstone National Park” translated by a professional translator. This research found that (i) using the three different TQA models results in different level of quality of the TT caused by two factors: the absence of text/sentence function as the quality aspect and the limited description of quality level; (ii) the model developed in this article is called function-based translation quality assessment using a holistic method of assessment in which the whole criteria of translation quality (accuracy, finding equivalents, translation skill, text/sentence function and grammar and TT style) are assessed.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sofyan R. and Tarigan B. (2018). Function-based Translation Quality Assessment.In Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR, ISBN 978-989-758-449-7, pages 1755-1764. DOI: 10.5220/0010099317551764

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icosteerr18,
author={Rudy Sofyan and Bahagia Tarigan},
title={Function-based Translation Quality Assessment},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,},
year={2018},
pages={1755-1764},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010099317551764},
isbn={978-989-758-449-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,
TI - Function-based Translation Quality Assessment
SN - 978-989-758-449-7
AU - Sofyan R.
AU - Tarigan B.
PY - 2018
SP - 1755
EP - 1764
DO - 10.5220/0010099317551764