Limitations in “Dichotomy” of J. House’s TQA Model ---- on Chinese and English Translation
Abstract
J. House’s model of Translation Quality Assessment (TQA) is commonly regarded as systemic and objective. However, based on the contrastive study of the linguistic and cultural features between English and German, the model also bears unavoidable limitations when it is applied to language pairs like Chinese and English. This paper discusses the inapplicability of House’s model caused by the dichotomy of overt and covert translation. Examples of translation in Chinese and English will be given for illustration. Two probable solutions are provided accordingly.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v7i11.7632
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