Communicative and Textual Competence in Translations of Legal Texts from English into Czech: A Case Study
Abstract The study addresses communicative and textual competence using empirical data obtained in a translation experiment conducted with professional translators and advanced translation students. Specifically, it explores stylistic and grammatical errors in translations of legal texts from English into Czech, which account for more than a half of all errors identified in the analysed sample. The results show that terminology and legal phraseology are a frequent source of difficulty not only in terms of meaning, but also from the grammatical and stylistic point of view. Another large group of erroneous solutions was identified at the syntactic level, including defects of overall textual coherence. Professional translators achieved better results than translation trainees both in terms of the overall quality and average number of errors; however, as regards the numbers of stylistic and linguistic errors, the performance of both groups was more balanced than in other categories.
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Chromá, Marta. 2014. Právní p?eklad v teorii a praxi. Nový ob?anský zákoník. Praha: Karolinum.
Chromá, Marta and Ond?ej Klabal. 2015. «Kvalita a právní p?eklad». In Kvalita a hodnocení p?ekladu: Modely a aplikace, ed. by Jitka Zehnalová et al, Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 199-218.
Dub?da, Tomáš. 2018. La traduction vers une langue étrangère: compétences, attitudes, contexte social. Meta 63/2: 492-509. https://doi.org/10.7202/1055149ar
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Dušková, Libuše. 2015. From syntax to text: the Janus face of functional sentence perspective and intra- and interlingual study of English. Prague: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press.
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Kelly, Dorothy. 2005. A handbook for translator trainers: a guide to reflective practice. Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing.
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Munday, Jeremy. 2009. The Routledge companion to translation studies. London: Routledge.
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Obdržálková, Vanda. 2018. «Directionality in Translation: Qualitative Aspects of Translation from and into English as a Non-Mother Tongue». Sendebar 29: 35-57.
O'Brien, Sharon. 2012. «Towards a dynamic quality evaluation model for translation». Journal of Specialised Translation 17: 55-77.
Pešková Jana. 2015. Problemas de la traducción de textos de contenido jurídico: búsqueda de los equivalentes más apropiados. Revista Hikma 14, Universidad de Córdoba: 127-140. https://doi.org/10.21071/hikma.v14i.5203
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