Methodological suggestions for the critical evaluation of José Martí´s english-spanish translation process of the text greek antiquities, by l.p. mahaffy.

Abstract

This thesis is about the implementation of the annotated collation as a new and original methodology in the comparative studies of the translation process since the relevance that this methodology has for English Language students, while apprehending the translation process. Its main objective is to elaborate a set of methodological suggestions for the critical evaluation of José Martí’s translation process of the work Greek Antiquities, by J.P. Mahaffy. The research will be structured in an introduction, containing the basic referential aspects of the work done as well as the research design followed; two main chaptersː one devoted to the theoretical and methodological foundations needed to support the applicationof a set of methodological suggestions for the critical analysis of the selected work, and the other chapter devoted to the development of the components of the methodology as such, as well as to its application in the analysis of the selected chunks of the translation of the work under analysis. It will be completed by the conclusions of the research carried out, as well as by the recommendations for further research on specific topics of the work analyzed. The consulted, referred and the quoted bibliography, as well as the annexes of the research close the written report.