Analysis of a text regarding the model for Translation Quality Assessment of Juliane House

In the following we will examine the quality of the German translation of Bram Stoker′s Dracula by the analysis-categories of Juliane House.

The texts used are:

Source text, in the following referred to as ST:
Bram STOKER, Dracula, ed. Michael Hulse (Köln, 1995)

Target text, in the following referred to as TT:
Bram STOKER, Dracula, 3rd ed. (Wien, 1993)

Juliane HOUSE, A model for translation quality assessment (Tübingen, 1981)
Juliane HOUSE, A model for translation quality assessment. A model revisited (Tübingen, 1997)

The novel Dracula was published in London for the first time in 1897 and was written between .
The translation used here is based on the German translation by Stasi Kull from 1967.