Cover Page The handle http://hdl.handle.net/1887/40210 holds various files of this Leiden University dissertation

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The handle http://hdl.handle.net/1887/40210 holds various files of this Leiden University dissertation

Author: Karoubi, Behrouz

Title: Assessor-centered translation quality assessment : a theoretical model and a case

study

Issue Date: 2016-06-15

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ASSESSOR-CENTERED TRANSLATION QUALITY ASSESSMENT:

A THEORETICAL MODEL AND A CASE STUDY

PROEFSCHRIFT ter verkrijging van

de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden, op gezag van Rector Magnificus prof.mr. C.J.J.M. Stolker,

volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties te verdedigen op 15 Juni 2016

klokke 15.00 uur

door Behrouz Karoubi geboren te Arak 1975

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Promotiecommissie:

Promotors:

Prof. dr. Maghiel van Crevel (Leiden University) Prof. dr. Mike Hannay (UV University Amsterdam)

Co-Promotor:

Dr. Ali Asghar Seyed Gohrab (Leiden University)

Overige Leden:

Prof. dr. Albert de Jong (Leiden University) Prof. dr. Johnny Cheung (INACLO, Paris) Dr. Rebecca Gould (University of Bristol)

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To my parents

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Here I am, at the end of a long and memorable journey, beyond overwhelmed by all the love and support I received from so many wonderful people I had the privilege of getting to know along my way. I am going to use this opportunity to express my words of sincere appreciation to all these people starting from Prof.

Dr. Maghiel van Crevel for acting as my promoter and his valuable comments on the first draft of my thesis. My special thanks also go to Prof. Dr. Mike Hannay, my supervisor. When I met Dr. Hannay for the very first time, I was half way through my PhD research project, but I had almost completely lost my direction.

When I sought his help, he put trust in me and unselfishly helped me get back on the right track again. We spent hours discussing my PhD project in our several meetings over the last three years. All through these years, Dr. Hannay was a source of inspiring new ideas to me, and I tremendously enjoyed his profound knowledge and experience. He was even kind enough to accept the cumbersome task of editing my work. I am really thankful and will always remain indebted to him. I would also like to thank my co-supervisor, Dr. Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, who was with me from the very beginning of my journey, always supporting me, and not even for a moment losing trust in me. In fact, it is mainly because of him that I even started conducting my doctoral research at Leiden University. I learned a great deal from Dr. Seyed-Gohrab, working under his supervision, especially during the period when I was writing the third chapter of my thesis on the history of translation in Iran. He was always providing me with useful and erudite comments on my research and I really feel obliged to him.

I also owe gratitude to Prof. Dr. Lance Hewson for helping me with writing my PhD proposal, Dr. Madeleine Kasten for her useful comments on the first chapter of my thesis, Dr. Gerben Mulder for his great assistance with statistical data analysis in the fifth chapter of my thesis, and Çağlar Ünal and Amin Ghodratzadeh for translating the summary of my research into Dutch.

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Staff of Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) provided a creative and helpful environment for my studies. I thank them all, especially Prof. Dr. Maghiel van Crevel, the academic director of LIAS. Dr. van Crevel has been doing everything in his power to improve the condition of PhD candidates in LIAS. I have a lot of respect for him.

This journey would have not been possible without the love and patience of my family. My parents, to whom this thesis is dedicated, my brothers and my younger sister have been a constant source of love, concern, support and strength all these years. I would like to express my whole-hearted gratitude to them.

My colleagues and friends were a second family away from home in the Netherlands, and I greatly value their friendship. I enjoyed the company of my colleagues, Mohammed Alsulami, Wenxin Wang, Xiaofei Zhang, Maria Maartje Riep, Xiao Ma, Bing Lu, Siyim Lim, Cecile Fameree, Ibrahim Saweros, Yujing Tan, Saeedeh Shahnepour, Jinhua Wu, Meiwen Chen, Hanan Ismael, Sara Kuli, Xinrong Ma, Ruobing Han, and Shuqi Jia, with whom I spent a lot of time working at a same office. I must also thank my colleagues at LIAS and many other nice people I have met at various conferences and other occasions in Leiden: Hussein Pourbagheri, Samaneh Asadi, Idrees Kanth, Akiko Tsujita, Mari Nakamura, Bucket Cengiz, Mahnia Nematollahi, Diede Farhosh-van Loon, Amin Ghodratzadeh, Esther McIntosh, Berthe Jansen, and Esther Van Eijk.

Finally, I would like to thank my good friends in Leiden and elsewhere in the Netherlands: Farhin Moslehi (and her lovely family), Jinous Hedayat, Luciana Ilie, Faeze Nami, Zohreh Shiamizadeh, Soroush Shobayri, Bahman Malakouti, Catherin Moazezi, Karim Eshragh, Shahin Azad, Ben Austin, Amanda post, Dennis Verra, Allard Altena, and Jeroen Admiraal.

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A Note on Translations and Transliterations

All translations are mine unless otherwise noted.

The system used for transliteration of Persian texts in this thesis is as follows:

System of Transliteration

CONSONANTS VOWELS

ء , ص s Long ا ā

ب b ض z و ū

پ p ط t ی i

ت t ظ z Short َ◌ - a

ث th ع , ُ◌- o

ج j غ gh ِ◌- e

چ ch ف f Diphthongs َو ow

ح h ق q َی iy

خ kh ک K

د d گ G

ذ z ل L

ر r م M

ز z ن N

ژ zh ه H

س s و V

ش sh ی Y

Cover Page The handle http://hdl.handle.net/1887/40210 holds various files of this Leiden University dissertation

Author: Karoubi, Behrouz

Title: Assessor-centered translation quality assessment : a theoretical model and a case

Issue Date: 2016-06-15

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System of Transliteration