L'évaluation de la traduction spécialisée

Abstract

When judged in an instrumentalist way in the professional environment, translation is a means which makes communication between different civilizations, cultures and languages possible. In order to establish the most efficient communication, the translator must capture the reality or the notion expressed in the source language and must render this reality or this notion in the target language. Consequently, the translator performs a double function as he/she must understand the documents to be translated, decode it, before recoding it and rendering it in the target language. Revision is not mere reading; skills needed for this activity should exceed those of the translator mostly in regard to the particularities of specialized language. Revision means an evolution of the quality of the translation and supposes that every prescription of the client, every principle of terminological coherence is respected, that every text segment is fully understood before being translated and that the rules of art are fully observed.