《operationalizing the translation purpose (skopos)》.pdf

EU-High-Level Scientific Conference Series MuTra 2007 – LSP Translation Scenarios: Conference Proceedings Min Sunwoo (Bonn/Saarbrücken) Operationalizing the translation purpose (Skopos) Contents 1 Problem Statement 1.1 Problem and aim of research project 1.2 Skopos in Translation Theory 2 Data 3 Intuitive solution 3.1 Intuitive solution concerning the translation commission and translation purpose 3.2 Intuitive solution concerning the operationalization 4 Formal solution 4.1 Model for Constituting the Translation Purpose from the Translation Commission 4.2 The Text Situating Model 4.2.1 Communication Model (Hexagon Model) as a basis model 4.2.2 The Tetrad Model 4.2.3 The Sense Giving Model 4.2.4 The Model of Life Domain 5 Adequacy test 5.1 Adequacy concerning the intuitive solution 5.2 Adequacy concerning the data 5.3 Adequacy concerning the problem 6 Summary 7 Selected references 1 Problem Statement 1.1 Problem and aim of research project A consistent claim among functional translation researchers is that Skopos (Reiß Vermeer 11984, ²1991) is the determining factor in translation; however, they fail to show how a Skopos effects the translation process or appears in a translated text. Moreover, the given ex- amples do not explain under which actual Skopos the translation has been rendered, so that until now, translators and students do not exactly know for what purpose a Skopos is posi- tioned within the translation process and to which results it leads. If we want S