Open AccessTranslation and Quality Management: some implications for the theory, practice and teaching of translation
Author(s) -
Margrethe Petersen
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
hermes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.759
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1903-1785
pISSN - 0904-1699
DOI - 10.7146/hjlcb.v9i16.25389
Subject(s) - translation studies , section (typography) , quality (philosophy) , quality assurance , translation (biology) , certification , field (mathematics) , computer science , quality management , relation (database) , epistemology , linguistics , management science , political science , mathematics , engineering , philosophy , management system , operations management , data mining , law , pure mathematics , external quality assessment , chemistry , messenger rna , biochemistry , gene , operating system
The aim of this article is to consider the issue of quality in translation. Specifically, the question under consideration is whether quality assurance in relation to translation is feasible and, if so, what some of the implications for translation theory, translation practice and the teaching of translation would be. To provide a backdrop against which the issue may be discussed, I present an overview of the two areas which seem most likely to hold potential answers, viz., that of translation theory and that of quality management. Section 1. gives a brief outline of some contributions to translation theory which would seem likely to be of interest in this connection and section 2. gives a linguist’s introduction to the part of the area of quality management which I consider relevant for present purposes. Section 3. is devoted to the case study of a small translation firm which has been certified under the ISO 9001 standard, and section 4. discusses the implications which quality management seems to hold for the field of translation in a broad sense. Finally, section 5. concludes the article.