US voter rights in translation

IF 1 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Translation Spaces Pub Date : 2022-10-10 DOI:10.1075/ts.22004.rie

Matt Riemland

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Abstract

Felons’ voting rights have featured prominently in debates over voter suppression in the United States, particularly in Florida, where a 2018 state constitutional amendment reinstated voting rights to the state’s 1.4 million former felons (Robles 2018). Florida also has a high concentration of Spanish-speaking voters with Limited English Proficiency (LEP), making Spanish-language voting information crucial. Inadequate translations of voter information may misrepresent voter eligibility for LEP Spanish-speaking former felons in Florida. Using a parallel corpus, this article’s central research question investigates how semantic shifts occur in Spanish translations of “felony” and “felon” in online voter information for seven Florida counties. The results reveal a number of misrepresentative semantic shifts in both human- and machine-translated Spanish voter information. Such shifts may impinge on individuals’ constitutional rights.

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翻译中的美国选民权利

重罪犯的投票权在美国关于选民压制的辩论中占据了突出地位，尤其是在佛罗里达州，2018年的州宪法修正案恢复了该州140万前重罪犯的选举权（罗伯斯，2018年）。佛罗里达州的西班牙语选民也非常集中，英语能力有限，这使得西班牙语投票信息至关重要。选民信息翻译不当可能会歪曲佛罗里达州讲LEP西班牙语的前重罪犯的选民资格。使用平行语料库，本文的核心研究问题调查了佛罗里达州七个县在线选民信息中“重罪”和“重罪犯”的西班牙语翻译中语义变化的情况。研究结果显示，在人工和机器翻译的西班牙语选民信息中，都存在大量误传语义变化。这种转变可能会侵犯个人的宪法权利。

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来源期刊

Translation Spaces LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

CiteScore

4.90

自引率

12.50%

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期刊介绍： Translation Spaces is a biannual, peer-reviewed, indexed journal that recognizes the global impact of translation. It envisions translation as multi-dimensional phenomena productively studied (from) within complex spaces of encounter between knowledge, values, beliefs, and practices. These translation spaces -virtual and physical- are multidisciplinary, multimedia, and multilingual. They are the frontiers being explored by scholars investigating where and how translation practice and theory interact most dramatically with the evolving landscape of contemporary globalization.