Comparative Translation Assessment: Quantifying Quality

ISBN-13: 9781036464745 / Twarda / 2026

Ljuba Tarvi

Opis

This book is an edited PhD thesis (2004) which, albeit not published commercially, kept on being Googled. The reason might be a combination of the daring hypothesis – quantity/quality, like energy/matter or signifier/signified, are two sides of one coin – substantiated with a purely statistical and user-friendly Token Equivalence Method (TEM). The novelty of the TEM is that it allows for what has been preserved in translation instead of discussing what has been distorted. The fact that a mere number of the original tokens kept in translation are utterly congruent with the emotive evaluation by conventional criticism is proof that Freud, Feynman and Chomsky are right: somewhere in the unreachable deep layer of everything, quality/content is the meaning of quantity/form.