Abstracts
Abstract
In professional settings translation evaluation has always been weighed down by the albatross of subjectivity to the detriment of both evaluators as clients and translators as service providers. But perhaps this burden can be lightened, through ongoing evaluator feedback and exchange that foster objectivity among the evaluators while sharpening the professional skills and recognition of the translators. The purpose of this paper is to explore the promising avenues that a corpus-based evaluation approach can possibly offer them. Using the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) for evaluation purposes in a professional setting, the approach adopted for this study regards translation evaluation as a means to a worthwhile end, in a nutshell, better translations. This approach also illustrates how the unique features of the corpus can minimize subjectivity in translation evaluation; this in turn leads to translations of superior quality.
Keywords:
- translation evaluation,
- professional setting,
- translation errors,
- corpus-based approach,
- translation improvement
Résumé
En contexte professionnel, l’évaluation des traductions s’est toujours heurtée au problème de la subjectivité, au détriment des évaluateurs, qu’ils soient clients, traducteurs ou fournisseurs de service. Il semble qu’il devienne possible d’alléger ce fardeau, de telle manière que les évaluateurs gagnent en objectivité et les traducteurs retirent un bénéfice à améliorer leurs compétences – et leur statut professionnel – à la lumière des commentaires que leur font constamment ceux qui évaluent leurs traductions. L’objectif du présent travail est d’explorer les voies prometteuses qu’ouvre l’évaluation fondée sur des corpus. Faisant appel à un corpus d’anglais américain contemporain (COCA) à des fins d’évaluation en contexte professionnel, la stratégie mise en oeuvre dans la présente étude envisage l’évaluation des traductions comme un moyen permettant d’atteindre un objectif pertinent, c’est-à-dire l’amélioration de la qualité de la traduction. Elle illustre également comment les caractéristiques spécifiques d’un corpus peuvent atténuer les composantes subjectives de l’évaluation, ce qui permet d’obtenir, in fine, des traductions de qualité supérieure.
Mots-clés :
- évaluation de la traduction,
- milieux professionnels,
- erreurs de traduction,
- approche fondée sur les corpus,
- amélioration de la traduction
Appendices
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