Translation manuals and style guides as quality assurance indicators : The case of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Translation

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Translation manuals and style guides as quality assurance indicators : The case of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Translation

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The aim of this chapter is to verify the assumption that institutional translation on the supranational level is, by definition, concerned primarily with terminology, style guides, that it is standardized, and its quality aspect is governed by rules (cf. Koskinen 2008, Schäffner et al. 2014). It will concentrate on translation manuals and style guides, since extensive studies on this topic seem to have been missing from academic research. To fill this gap as regards inquiries into the workings of one particular (EU) institution, this chapter presents the results of research into translation manuals and style guides used by and within the European Commission&apos;s Directorate-General for Translation (DGT). The DGT on-line collection of guidelines (referred to as the Resources website here), which primarily offers materials to DGT contractors, represents arguably the most extensive and most complex translation resource ever compiled. The present research is based on empirical data: as of the time of the study (the first half of 2017), a total of 793 links to individual translation manuals and style guides were included in a research corpus encompassing all the 24 official languages of the EU. The information was surveyed using a blend of quantitative and qualitative approaches. As for the results, the extensiveness of the DGT reference material could be shown together with its linkages to the translation quality aspect, whether these are explicit or implicit. As regards the structure of the resources, an overall top-down standardization approach could be proven, although, at the same time, the resources show a certain degree of variation. The following areas were identified as being the crucial requirements DGT has vis-a-vis its contractors: references to EU institutions and DGT departments, binding terminology resources and the Interinstitutional Style Guide.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Translation manuals and style guides as quality assurance indicators : The case of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Translation

Popis výsledku anglicky

The aim of this chapter is to verify the assumption that institutional translation on the supranational level is, by definition, concerned primarily with terminology, style guides, that it is standardized, and its quality aspect is governed by rules (cf. Koskinen 2008, Schäffner et al. 2014). It will concentrate on translation manuals and style guides, since extensive studies on this topic seem to have been missing from academic research. To fill this gap as regards inquiries into the workings of one particular (EU) institution, this chapter presents the results of research into translation manuals and style guides used by and within the European Commission&apos;s Directorate-General for Translation (DGT). The DGT on-line collection of guidelines (referred to as the Resources website here), which primarily offers materials to DGT contractors, represents arguably the most extensive and most complex translation resource ever compiled. The present research is based on empirical data: as of the time of the study (the first half of 2017), a total of 793 links to individual translation manuals and style guides were included in a research corpus encompassing all the 24 official languages of the EU. The information was surveyed using a blend of quantitative and qualitative approaches. As for the results, the extensiveness of the DGT reference material could be shown together with its linkages to the translation quality aspect, whether these are explicit or implicit. As regards the structure of the resources, an overall top-down standardization approach could be proven, although, at the same time, the resources show a certain degree of variation. The following areas were identified as being the crucial requirements DGT has vis-a-vis its contractors: references to EU institutions and DGT departments, binding terminology resources and the Interinstitutional Style Guide.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Quality aspects in institutional translation

ISBN

978-80-7374-125-9

Počet stran výsledku

34

Strana od-do

75-108

Počet stran knihy

197

Název nakladatele

Language Science Press

Místo vydání

Berlin

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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