ARE THERE UNIVERSAL CRITERIA FOR TRANSLATION QUALITY ASSESSMENT?
neither the degree of equivalence of the original text and its translation nor the translation adequacy, understood as rendering the functional focus of the original text, can serve as reliable and universal criteria of translation quality assessment. The situation in which the text was translated, the purpose of translation, the choice of translation strategy should also be taken into consideration, so assessment criteria can not be based on text comparison. The necessity to take into consideration all the circumstances accompanying the process of translation makes it impossible to assess translation quality within the framework of modern translatology.