RT Journal Article
T1 Bringing source text quality into the legal translation classroom: training translators to face defective source texts.
A1 Ruiz Cortés, Elena
K1 Traducción - Estudio y enseñanza
K1 Derecho - Traducción
AB Legal translators are routinely faced with defective source texts intheir professional practice while being expected to produce effectivetranslations despite such quality issues. Given the high-qualityexpectations required in legal translation, we have brought thisprofessional reality into the classroom by outlining a quality controlactivity to allow legal translation trainees to systematise how theydeal with defective Spanish administrative source texts. The proposalincludes two steps: a translatability assessment and a pre-editingstage of defective administrative source texts. After empiricallytesting our proposal in the classroom, our initial findings suggestthat this approach not only assists trainees to factor in poor sourcetext quality when translating, but also to produce bettertranslations.
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2024
FD 2024-05-15
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/41488
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/41488
LA eng
NO Ruiz-Cortés, Elena (2024) Bringing source text quality into the legal translation classroom: training translators to face defective source texts, The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 18:2, 230-249, DOI: 10.1080/1750399X.2024.2344154
NO https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/15057?from=single_hit
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026