Legal Language, Legal Discourse: Variation and Beyond

Volume 1: National, International and EU Juritranslatological Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-40750-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 339 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

This book is the first volume of the publication on , edited by Panagiotis G. Krimpas and Lelija Socanac. It contains ten chapters on legal language and/or discourse issues with particular focus on legal translation’s interlingual, intersystemic and/or intersemiotic aspects. Legal translation is undoubtedly the most demanding field of translation in both theory and practice, and modern juritranslatology utilises methods and insights from a wide range of other fields, a fact reflected in the variety of topics covered in this book, ranging from quantitative and qualitative corpus-based methods, legal comparison, contrastive and historical-terminological approaches, comparative conceptual analysis, comparative componential analysis and discourse analysis to traditional descriptive perspectives, discussed through the lens of contemporary approaches and research methods. The book will be useful primarily for academics, linguists, legal translators and lawyers, and it can also provide additional reading for students of law, legal linguistics and/or legal translation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krimpas, Panagiotis G.

Socanac, Lelija

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Search, Analyse, Compare The Role of Legal Comparison in Legal Translation.- Chapter 2: Revisiting Legalese in Translation Studies Corpus-Based Evidence from Binomial  and Polynomial Structures.- Chapter 3: English and Italian Wordlists in Terms of Service Inferring Translational Data from  Linguistic Analyses .- Chapter 4: Translating Czech Company Law Terminology into English .- Chapter 5: Terminological Variation in Legal Language The Risks Faced by Legal Translation Trainees .- Chapter 6: European Arrest Warrant A Benchmark for Jurisdictional Variations in Legal Translation with English/Slovak Case Studies .- Chapter 7: Term Equivalence and Variability in Legal Translation An English-Bulgarian Comparison .- Chapter 8: Flexibility and Rigidity of the Language of Law and Its Translation the Case of Bilingual and Bijural Canada .- Chapter 9: Translating Mexican Corporate Legal Verbal Constructions of Obligation for a Complex Audience into English .- Chapter 10: The Impact of Digitalisation on Intersemiotic Legal Translation.

Über Autor(innen)

Panagiotis G. Krimpas is full professor of Terminology, Translation and Legal Texts at the Department of Humanities, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He has practiced law (2001–2017) and regularly collaborated, as an expert in legal translation/terminology, with Greek governmental institutions (2013–2025), including the Prime Minister’s Office (2013–2015) and the Diplomatic Cabinet of the President of the Republic (2015–2020). He is a founding and former BoD member of the Hellenic Society for Translation Studies, a BoD member of the Hellenic Society for Terminology and speaks fifteen languages. His research interests include legal linguistics, historical linguistics, and dialectology.

Lelija Socanac is retired full professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia. She was head of the Foreign Language Department and head of the Centre for Language and Law at the same institution, where she was involved in legal-linguistic research, organisation of conferences, curriculum development and implementation of language courses for lawyers, and development of new language teaching methods and materials. Her research interests include legal linguistics, contact linguistics, (historical) sociolinguistics and discourse analysis.