Translation Errors Made by Visually Impaired Translators and Their Implications for Translation Accuracy
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https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1506.20Keywords:
translation errors, translation accuracy, visually impaired translatorAbstract
Recently, many translation products created by visually impaired translators have emerged in Indonesia. The quality of these translated works has been widely studied (Nugroho et al., 2016; Suryaningtyas & Cahyono, 2018), but these studies have not examined the effect of errors on the quality of translation accuracy. Using actual translation assignments, we identified errors made by visually impaired translators in academic and non-academic texts, and also the effect of these errors towards the quality of translation accuracy. From the data analysis stage, the researchers managed to identify major translation errors and minor translation errors. Major errors include incorrect words, incorrect terminology, incomplete sentences, and parts of speech. The minor errors consist of punctuation, spacing, omission, loan words, and redundant words. All types of translation errors, both major and minor, reduce the quality of translation accuracy. Interestingly, only spacing errors do not fully reduce the quality of translation accuracy in both types of texts. This happens because there is neither alteration nor ambiguity of meaning, and loss of certain information in the translated text. The researchers concluded that these translation errors occur due to poor competency of translators, limited capabilities of using assistive technology, and negligence of certain processes / steps of translation that the translator must carry out that the translator must carry out.
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