The translation of judgments in different and similar legal systems and languages/language varieties : an empirical study
This study sets out to examine how the genre of court judgments is translated under certain conditions relating to the legal systems of the source and target texts as well as to the languages/language varieties concerned. The study looks in particular at two aspects of judgments: macrostructures and lexical incongruencies. These features are analysed using a text corpus of judgments and their translations specially compiled for this study (about 1,200,763 words), in two different scenarios. The first scenario involves two countries in which different legal systems are in force with two official languages; the second concerns plurilingual countries with a mixed legal system. These two different scenarios are intended to sharpen the research focus of earlier studies so that a more nuanced picture of shifts in legal translation can emerge. A further contribution is made to the role of context in shaping translation decisions through consideration of the purpose of the translations studied. The corpus has been studied manually as a semi-automatic analysis was not practicable given the nature of the research questions which looked at the translation of macrostructures and lexical items in context. The analysis
De Leo, Davide
The translation of judgments in different and similar legal systems and languages/language varieties : an empirical study. This study sets out to examine how the genre of court judgments is translated under certain conditions relating to the legal systems of the source and target texts as well as to the languages/language varieties concerned. The study looks in particular at two aspects of judgments: macrostructures and lexical incongruencies. These features are analysed using a text corpus of judgments and their translations specially compiled for this study (about 1,200,763 words), in two different scenarios. The first scenario involves two countries in which different legal systems are in force with two official languages; the second concerns plurilingual countries with a mixed legal system. These two different scenarios are intended to sharpen the research focus of earlier studies so that a more nuanced picture of shifts in legal translation can emerge. A further contribution is made to the role of context in shaping translation decisions through consideration of the purpose of the translations studied. The corpus has been studied manually as a semi-automatic analysis was not practicable given the nature of the research questions which looked at the translation of macrostructures and lexical items in context. The analysis
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