Comparative Analysis of Translations Prepared by Students with and Without Legal Qualifications

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Comparative Legilinguistics Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI:10.14746/cl.2019.37.3

Márta Lesznyák, Dorka Balogh

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Abstract

Abstract In our paper, we present the results of the second phase of a study conducted in collaboration between two higher education institutions in Hungary with different types of translator training: a postgraduate (MA) course at the University of Szeged (SZTE), Faculty of Arts, and a postgraduate specialist training course at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest (PPKE JÁK), Faculty of Law and Political Sciences. At SZTE, students do not have any legal qualifications, while at PPKE JÁK, students are all qualified legal professionals. Our main research question was whether there are significant differences in the quality of legal translations carried out by students with and without legal qualifications. We analyzed and evaluated the global (holistic) quality of the translations using a five-point scale as suggested by Kiraly (1995: 83), and compared types of errors made by the two groups of students with the help of a special error typology. Our results show that students with legal qualifications perform better in terms of both global and analytic indicators, with significantly less errors made in information transfer and in legal register.

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有法律资格和没有法律资格的学生所作译文的比较分析

摘要在我们的论文中，我们介绍了匈牙利两所高等教育机构合作进行的一项研究的第二阶段的结果，这两所高等学校接受了不同类型的翻译培训：塞格德大学（SZTE）文学院的研究生（MA）课程和布达佩斯佩特尔天主教大学（PPKE JÁK）的研究生专业培训课程，法律和政治科学学院。在SZTE，学生没有任何法律资格，而在PPKE JÁK，学生都是合格的法律专业人员。我们的主要研究问题是，具有和不具有法律资格的学生进行的法律翻译的质量是否存在显著差异。我们使用Kiraly（1995:83）提出的五点量表分析和评估了翻译的总体（整体）质量，并在一种特殊的错误类型学的帮助下比较了两组学生犯下的错误类型。我们的研究结果表明，具有法律资格的学生在全局和分析指标方面表现更好，在信息传递和法律登记方面的错误明显较少。

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