Hans G Hönig
Biographic Data
| ID | 6545902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans G Hönig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans G |
| FAMILY NAME | Hönig |
| SIGNATURE | HÖNIG H G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Helmholtz Institute Mainz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Positions, Power and Practice
Translation quality assessment (TQA) is an essential part of any theoretical concept of translation. Models of TQA will therefore inevitably reflect an overall theoretical framework (or lack of it) and can be discussed in terms of such. On the other hand, TQA is carried out daily, often in an unreflected and sometimes authoritarian way. Empirical data from the translator's workbench must therefore be taken into account if one wants to provide a b…
Complexity, Contrastive Linguistics and Translator Training
Translation, opportunism and the computer
Translators must understand that they cannot guarantee 'correct' understanding, either when they themselves comprehend a text, or when they make a (foreign) text comprehensible. They therefore have to develop enough self‐confidence (and self‐awareness) to trust their own intuition and to have faith in their readers' inferencing processes. This also means, however, that clients and addressees have to allow translators to be opportunists. Translato…
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Translation, opportunism and the computer
Translators must understand that they cannot guarantee 'correct' understanding, either when they themselves comprehend a text, or when they make a (foreign) text comprehensible. They therefore have to develop enough self‐confidence (and self‐awareness) to trust their own intuition and to have faith in their readers' inferencing processes. This also means, however, that clients and addressees have to allow translators to be opportunists. Translato…
Positions, Power and Practice
Translation quality assessment (TQA) is an essential part of any theoretical concept of translation. Models of TQA will therefore inevitably reflect an overall theoretical framework (or lack of it) and can be discussed in terms of such. On the other hand, TQA is carried out daily, often in an unreflected and sometimes authoritarian way. Empirical data from the translator's workbench must therefore be taken into account if one wants to provide a b…
Complexity, Contrastive Linguistics and Translator Training
Computer Science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Applied linguistics (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Biology (1 works) · Clinical linguistics (1 works) · Computational linguistics (1 works) · Contrastive linguistics (1 works)