Olsen / Lorz / Stein Translation Issues in Language and Law

2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-23374-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 239 Seiten, eBook

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