Measuring the Adequacy of the Host Text Using Skopostheorie in Bible Translation: The Ethics of Operational Transparency

Skopostheorie’s focus on function provides a framework for evaluating translation which is potentially realistic, measurable, and operationally transparent. To realize that potential the translation brief can be critiqued for its principles and methodology, but also the host translation can be measu...

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Main Author: Esala, Nathan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2014
In: The Bible translator
Year: 2014, Volume: 65, Issue: 3, Pages: 308-336
Further subjects:B host text
B translation error
B Transparency
B Postcolonial
B Domestication
B foreignization
B translation ethics
B Ghana
B translation problem
B Bible Translation
B functional translation
B translation quality
B Skopostheorie
B language status
B Adequacy
B Philemon
B translation brief
B Loyalty
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