Translation Issues in Language and Law

2009. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-20350-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 239 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

With contributions from world-class specialists this first book-length work looks at translation issues in forensic linguistics, where accuracy and cultural understandings play a prominent part in the legal process.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Olsen, F.

Lorz, R.

Stein, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors Forensic Translation: Practical Issues and their Theoretical Underpinnings; D.Stein PART I: LANGUAGE AND DIFFERENT LAW CULTURES Legal Cultures - Legal Languages; U.Kischel Language as a Barrier to Comparative Law; O.Brand Statutory Interpretation in the EU: The Augustinian Approach; L.M.Solan Globalising Trends in Legal Discourse; M.Gotti The Status and Position of Legal Translation: A Chapter in the Discursive Construction of Societies; J.Lambert PART II: HANDLING LEGAL DISCOURSE IN THE MODERN WORLD Translation at the Court of Justice of The European Communities; K.McAuliffe Drafting Or Translation – Production Of Multilingual Legal Texts; A.Doczekalska Legal Translation in Canada. The Genius of Legal Language(S); L.Beaudoin PART III: CONCRETE PROBLEMS IN LEGAL TRANSLATION Pitfalls of English as a Contract Language; V.Triebel Isomorphism And Anisomorphism in the Translation of Legal Texts; E.Alcaraz-Varó Translation as a Dynamic Model in the Development of the Burundi Constitution(s); J-B.Bigirimana References Index

Über Autor(innen)

ENRIQUE ALCARAZ-VARÓ (d. 2009) University of Alicante, Spain

LOUIS BEAUDOIN University of Sherbrooke, Canada

JEAN-BAPTIST BIGIRIMANA University of Leuven, Belgium

OLIVER BRAND is Lecturer at the University of Münster, Germany

AGNIESZKA DOCZEKALSKA University of Florence, Italy

MAURIZIO GOTTI University of Bergamo, Italy

UWE KISCHEL is attorney-at-law (New York), Mercator Professor of Public Law, European Law and Comparative Law (Northeastern Europe), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald, Germany

JOSÉ LAMBERT University of Leuven, Belgium

KAREN MCAULIFFE School of Law, University of Exeter, UK

LAWRENCE M. SOLAN is Don Forchelli Professor of Law, Director, Center for the Study of Law, Language and Cognition, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Brooklyn Law School, USA

VOLKER TRIEBEL is a partner at Lovells in Düsseldorf, Germany