TRA 3133 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Style Guide, Skopos Theory
16 Jan 2018
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Instructions or specifications accompanying a translation assignment that indicate the target audience and purpose of a translation assignment. If you don"t receive one, or it isn"t clear or complete, ask for more info! Makes all the difference to a project"s success (or prevents it from going horribly. Success of a translation project depends on a translator"s ability to: Determine how appropriate the st is for the intended target audience. Decide how much it needs to be adapted to achieve its intended purpose in the tl. Without a translation brief, you don"t have a framework for making decisions . And remember, translation is all about making decisions! E. g. age, level of education, level of subject knowledge, nationality. Information about the intended purpose of the tt. For internal/personal use (i. e. , mainly to get information) E. g. conversion of currencies, date formats, measurements. Main goals of a translation project are to. Have a comparable (or desired) effect on ta.
