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    House's model of translation quality assessment is based on pragmatic theories of language use and functional and contextual views of language. It uses functional equivalence as the yardstick for an appropriate translation, achieved through genre and register parameters. The evaluation procedure consists of establishing source and target text profiles, comparing them, and providing a statement of quality listing matches, mismatches and translation strategy.

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    House's model of translation quality assessment is based on pragmatic theories of language use and functional and contextual views of language. It uses functional equivalence as the yardstick for an appropriate translation, achieved through genre and register parameters. The evaluation procedure consists of establishing source and target text profiles, comparing them, and providing a statement of quality listing matches, mismatches and translation strategy.

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    House’s model of translation quality

    assessment
    House’s (1977/1981 and1997) model of
    translation quality assessment is based on
    pragmatic theories of language use, specifically
    speech act theory, and functional and contextual
    views of language, and textual considerations.
    Her functional equivalence serves as the
    yardstick for a ‘good’, or ‘appro​priate
    translation’, which is achieved through two
    parameters: genre and register (House 1997: 31-
    32

    Following Halliday, House subdivides register


    into field, tenor and mode and correlates it with
    lexical, syntactic and textual elements (ibid 42).
    Her evaluation procedure consists of: (1)
    establishing a source text profile along the
    operational-enabling parameters against which
    the target text is measured; (2) establishing the
    function of the source text; (3) comparing source
    text profile with target text;

    and (4) providing a statement of quality that lists,


    in addition to errors, the matches and
    mismatches along the param​eters of genre and
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    register, and comments on the translation
    strategy (ibid: 42).

    In evaluating the relative match between ST and


    TT, House makes a distinction between
    dimensional mismatches or covertly erroneous
    errors, and non-dimensional mismatches or
    overtly erroneous errors, the latter type of errors
    comprising both mismatches of the denotative
    meanings of ST and TT elements and breaches of
    the target language system.

    On the basis of the results of her study, House


    distinguishes between overt translation and
    covert translation. An overt translation is called
    for whenever anLoading…
    ST is source-culture linked and
    has independent status in the source language
    community

    A covert translation on the other hand is called


    for whenever an ST is not source-culture linked,
    and does not have independent status in the
    source language community; a covert translation
    is not marked pragmatically as a TT of an ST,
    but might equally well have been created in its
    own right (House 1981, 189-194).

    In cases where functional equivalence cannot be


    achieved, House suggests a second level function
    to be posited as a criterion for adequate
    translation.

    However, Lauscher, (2000), quoting van Dijik


    and Kintsch, states that House’s functional
    equivalence seems problematic because
    interpretation of texts is not only linguistic but is
    also subject to influences which are cultural,
    social and individual, and lie outside the text
    (ibid: 154).

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