Assessing legal terminological variation in institutional translation

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2021-07-02 DOI:10.1075/ttmc.00067.guz

D. Guzmán, F. P. Ramos

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Abstract

This paper presents the main findings of a study on the translation of national court names in United Nations texts as an illustrative group of culture-bound terms. It focuses on documents produced as part of several mandatory compliance monitoring procedures in the field of human rights. The study is part of a broader project on legal translation in international organisations (LETRINT), which considers terminological consistency and adequacy as indicators of translation quality, and examines the impact of legal asymmetry on both dimensions. To shed light on the first of these indicators, a comprehensive analysis of intertextual and intratextual variations of English-Spanish and French-Spanish translations of thirty terms was conducted. Over five thousand bi- and trilingual segments, extracted from three ad-hoc multilingual and parallel corpora, were examined. They cover the period between 2000 and 2017, and refer to six legal systems. At the intertextual level, the results corroborate that legal asymmetry has a significant impact on translation decision-making, while the assessment of intratextual variation points to a link between source text length, documental series and the degree of terminological consistency.

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制度翻译中法律术语变异的评估

本文介绍了对联合国文本中各国法院名称的翻译研究的主要结果，作为一组具有文化背景的术语。它的重点是作为人权领域若干强制性遵守情况监测程序的一部分而编写的文件。该研究是国际组织法律翻译项目(LETRINT)的一部分，该项目将术语一致性和充分性作为翻译质量的指标，并研究法律不对称对这两个方面的影响。为了阐明这些指标中的第一个，对英语-西班牙语和法语-西班牙语翻译的30个术语的文间和文内变化进行了全面分析。从三个特设的多语种和平行语料库中提取的五千多个双语和三语片段进行了研究。它们涵盖了2000年至2017年期间，涉及六个法律体系。在互文层面，研究结果证实了法律不对称对翻译决策有显著影响，而对文本内变异的评估则指出了源文本长度、文献系列和术语一致性程度之间的联系。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

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31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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