Analysis of the effects of translation (English-Spanish) on the readability of patient information leaflets

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Published: Dec 20, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2018.10.2
Keywords:
patient information leaflet, translation, readability, genre, corpus

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Raquel Martínez Motos
University of Alicante

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This paper focuses on the potential effects of translation from English into Spanish in the readability of patient information leaflets. It is based on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the elements involved in the degree of readability of a corpus of 150 patient information leaflets specifically selected for this purpose. The results obtained and the conclusions reached after the analysis may be used to determine whether the translation process has any impact on the degree of readability of translated texts against original ones and, if so, to which degree does it affect.

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Martínez Motos, R. (2018). Analysis of the effects of translation (English-Spanish) on the readability of patient information leaflets. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, (10), 43–73. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2018.10.2
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Raquel Martínez Motos, University of Alicante

Raquel Martínez Motos holds a BA in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Granada and a PhD in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Alicante. She is also accredited as a Sworn Translator and Interpreter of English. She has been working as a lecturer at the English Department of the University of Alicante since 2004, where she currently teaches general translation, legal translation and English for Specific Purposes. In 2007 she published A Terminological Dictionary of the Pharmaceutical Sciences (English-Spanish), co-authored with Dr. Enrique Alcaraz Varó and Dr. Alfonso Domínguez-Gil Hurlé and sponsored by the Spanish Royal Academy of Pharmacy. Her main lines of research are focused on terminology, legal and scientific translation and language for specific purposes.

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