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Publication details [#6923]

Nord, Christiane. 1997. Leicht - mittelschwer - (zu) schwer [Easy - intermediate - (too) difficult]. In Fleischmann, Eberhard, Peter A. Schmitt and Wladimir Kutz, eds. Translationsdidaktik: Grundfragen der Übersetzungswissenschaft [Translation didactics: basic issues in Translation Studies]. Tübingen: Gunter Narr. pp. 92–102.

Publication type

Article in jnl/bk

Publication language

German

Keywords

assessment=evaluation | difficulty=degree of difficulty=complexity | documentation | knowledge=background knowledge=expert knowledge

Abstract

This article discusses the degree of difficulty of translation tasks. It concludes that this degree is dependent on background information: if research is made superfluous by documentation or the background knowledge of the translator, the degree of complexity decreases.

Source : I. Van linthout