Book review
Ana Luna Alonso, Silvia Montero Küpper & Liliana Valado Fernández, eds. Translation Quality Assessment Policies from Galicia
Bern: Peter Lang, 2011. 272 pp. ISBN 978-3-0343-0401-6 €49.60, (PB)

Reviewed by Beatriz Mª Rodríguez Rodríguez
University of Vigo
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Despite current advances exemplified by special journal issues like Evaluation and Translation (Maier 2000) and Évaluation: paramètres, méthodes, aspects pédagogiques (Lee-Jahnke 2001), translation quality assessment remains quite a controversial and complex subject. Therefore, the volume under review raises the expectations for the implementation of policies in the field of translation quality. These expectations, however, are not met since the topic turns out to be covered rather superficially and some important issues are ignored.

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References

Lee-Jahnke, Hannelore
ed 2001 Évaluation: paramètres, méthodes, aspects pédagogiques [Evaluation, parameters, methods, pedagogical aspects]. Special issue of Meta 46 (2).Google Scholar
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1976 “Recommendation on the Legal Protection of Translators and Translations and the Practical Means to Improve the Status of Translators.” http://​portal​.unesco​.org​/en​/ev​.php​-URL​_ID​=13089​&URL​_DO​=DO​_TOPIC​&URL​_SECTION​=201​.html