En el presente artículo investigamos acerca del discurso jurídico-administrativo y sus transformaciones. Tras determinar las características terminológicas, morfológicas y sintácticas de dicho discurso, analizaremos el impacto que, sobre todo en Reino Unido y en Estados Unidos, ha tenido un movimiento de gran calado denominado Plain English, mediante el cual el ciudadano medio exige un lenguaje claro y comprensible por parte de la Justicia y de la Administración Pública. Mostraremos que este movimiento se ha extendido a nuestro país y estudiaremos las distintas medidas nacionales ofrecidas con el fin de lograr una comunicación eficaz con el público en general. Analizaremos la influencia de este lenguaje claro en la traducción jurídica mediante el análisis de una sentencia en las lenguas española e inglesa en aras a comprobar la viabilidad de un Plain Spanish.
The aim of our study is to examine the legal and administrative English used in the informational pamphlet the Spanish Ministry for Home Affairs created to explain Law 12/2009 to international protection applicants. To do so, a linguistic revision of the translated pamphlet was carried out in order to identify the linguistic and discursive elements which make comprehension difficult. Then, using translation techniques developed by Molina and Hurtado Albir (2002), an intralinguistic translation was proposed with the goal of rewriting the text in easily-understandable English. Additionally, errors were classified and corrected in accordance with Toledo Báez’s (2010, 2015) analytical assessment scale and the pamphlet’s design was updated. Lastly, the readability of both the original and simplified translations was evaluated using the Flesch Reading Ease Formula.
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