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T1 Shedding light on the grey area of assessment in legal translation: a case study based on a holistic method
T2 Arrojando luz en el incierto campo de la evaluación en la traducción jurídica: un estudio de caso basado en un método holístico
A1 Valero Garcés, María del Carmen
A1 Vigier Moreno, Francisco Javier
K1 Legal Translation
K1 Assessment
K1 Holistic Method
K1 Subjectivity
K1 Traducción Jurídica
K1 Evaluación
K1 Método Holístico
K1 Subjetividad
K1 Filología
K1 Philology
AB Assessment is a very controversial topic in Translation Studies as it is entrenched with subjectivity. In an attempt to verify the validity and reliability of holistic assessment as far as legal translation is concerned, the following case study was designed. A legal text was translated by a Master’s student and this translation was assessed holistically by 10 evaluators, who had to complete a questionnaire after grading the translation. Results show once more great disparity in the evaluators’ value judgment and highlight the subjective nature of this kind of assessment. However, results did not differ much from those obtained when the same translation was assessed following an apparently more objective error-based method, which confirms the usefulness of holistic assessment as a supplementary tool, especially for translator training purposes.
PB FITISPos-UAH Research Group
SN 2341-3778
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/29800
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/29800
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 23-abr-2024