Factors Affecting Professional Satisfaction of Legal Translators in Turkish Judicial System
Türk Yargı Sisteminde Görevli Hukuk Çevirmenlerinin Mesleki Doyumlarını Etkileyen Faktörler

Author : Büşra ÖZER ERDOĞAN -- Aslı Özlem TARAKÇIOĞLU
Number of pages : 101-109

Abstract

This study aims to determine the factors affecting professional satisfaction of legal translators in the Turkish Judiciary and to explore how professional satisfaction affects legal translators’ productivity. The importance of professional satisfaction in work life of legal translators and the fact that there is almost no studies on this issue encourage the researchers to study on this topic. In this respect, the study is a qualitative research where data was collected through an open-ended questionnaire and face-to-face interviews with key persons. The result of the study revealed that among the factors affecting professional satisfaction of legal translators are professional status, monthly wage, flexibility of working hours and quality of legal texts in linguistic terms. Improvement in these factors may lead legal translators to reach professional satisfaction and the quality of translations to be enhanced.

Keywords

Legal translators, Professional satisfaction, Professional status, monthly wage, working hours

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