Juliane House (2015), Abingdon and New York: Routledge, vii, 160 pp. — DOI-10.4324/9781315752839
Key takeaways
Filed, not read: no lawful full text was reachable (see the history note). What follows restates the publisher’s description and the catalogue’s contents.
- The publisher’s description: the book “makes explicit the grounds of judging the worth of a translation and emphasizes that translation is, at its core, a linguistic art”; it presents “a newly revised and presented model of translation quality assessment which, like its predecessor, relies on detailed textual and culturally informed contextual analysis and comparison”, and its test cases show “two steps in translation evaluation: firstly analysis, description and explanation; secondly, judgements of value, socio-cultural relevance and appropriateness … to judge is easy, to understand less so.”
- Contents, from Crossref’s chapter records: Translation theory and translation quality assessment (11–17); Different approaches to translation theory and translation quality assessment (18–30); The original House model (1977) (31–45); Implementation of the original model (46–63); Refining the original model on the basis of test cases (64–72); The revised House model (1997) (73–80); Implementation of the revised model: a test case (81–94); Contrastive pragmatics, intercultural communication and understanding, and cultural filtering (95–106); Globalization and cultural filtering (107–116); Corpus studies and the notion of genre (117–125); Cognitive translation-related research (126–133); Towards a new integrative model (134–153).
Standing in the record
Filed on 2026-10-09 from the manuscript bibliography of 2026-10-09 (work
what-survives-translation) at the owner’s request: the manuscript
considered it and dropped it from the final reference list. See the
curation entry of that day.
Deferred because it was not read. Of the translation-theory works filed
that day, only Jakobson’s essay (LIT-786) could be read.