Risk perception and risk management in legal translation: a questionnaire survey.
While risk as a concept has aroused interest in Translation Studies in recent years, empirical research on the topic is still lacking. Mostly regarded as an adverse factor, risk has close conceptual links to translation quality and translation ethics. Legal translation is a field in which risk aware...
| Publicado en: | Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 152 - 169 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2026
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