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THE TRANSLATOR – CLIENT RELATIONSHIP IN THE TRANSLATION PROCESS











RADU SIMONA
LMA, ANUL II, EN-FR


CONTENTS



1. Introduction 3
2. General information on the translation process 3
2.1. Short history 4
2.2 What is translation? 4
3. The translation process and its participants 5
3.1 Stages of the translation process 5
3.2 The role of the translator 6
3.3 The competence of the translator 7
3.3.1 Process competences 7
3.3.2. Product competences 7
3.4 The role of the client 8
3.5 The responsibility of the translator 8
3.6 The responsibility of the client 9
4. The relationship between the translator and the client 10
4.1 The collaboration 10
4.2. Feedback from client 10
4.3 Translation criticism 11
5. Conclusion 11


1. Introduction


The present study is a theoretical synthesis that tries to structure, in some way, the information about a significant part of the translation field. Actually, it presents the participants in the translation process, their importance, role and responsibilities, but also the relationship that appears between them during their collaboration. This paper doesn’t bring too much novelty in the domain, although it offers a clear image of an extremely important chapter of the extraordinary book of translations.
During my research on this subject I found lots of interesting and essential things about what the translation process really means, what it supposes but at the same time I came to better appreciate the effort and the work a translator needs to “invest” in every project, in every relationship established with his clients, the persons he works with. In order to find data and gain knowledge for this paper, I used certain...