Problems of translating legal discourse with special reference to the United Nations' documents
This thesis is solely devoted to the study of the problems associated with English-Arabic-English legal translation. With this aim in mind, I will analyse authentic parallel texts of three legal subtypes, international, legislative, and official documents. Parallel texts refer to texts in two or more languages that have the same communicative purpose and render the same message (i.e. UN texts). The study adopts a contrastive model for analyzing and describing some linguistic features on semantic and syntactic levels. In fact, we see that it is not a comprehensive model of comparison since it covers areas of difficulty in translating legal language. The process of comparison falls into two stages, the first of which is descriptive and it identifies the areas of differences between the Arabic and English texts in relation to the elements mentioned earlier. The second stage critically analyses the parallel-translations and techniques used for translating them. At this stage, we will attempt to provide suggestions and solutions for the problematic areas whenever possible. The thesis follows the following sequence: an overview of legal discourse in chapter one; the interface between legal translation and general
El-Farahatry, Ha
Problems of translating legal discourse with special reference to the United Nations' documents. This thesis is solely devoted to the study of the problems associated with English-Arabic-English legal translation. With this aim in mind, I will analyse authentic parallel texts of three legal subtypes, international, legislative, and official documents. Parallel texts refer to texts in two or more languages that have the same communicative purpose and render the same message (i.e. UN texts). The study adopts a contrastive model for analyzing and describing some linguistic features on semantic and syntactic levels. In fact, we see that it is not a comprehensive model of comparison since it covers areas of difficulty in translating legal language. The process of comparison falls into two stages, the first of which is descriptive and it identifies the areas of differences between the Arabic and English texts in relation to the elements mentioned earlier. The second stage critically analyses the parallel-translations and techniques used for translating them. At this stage, we will attempt to provide suggestions and solutions for the problematic areas whenever possible. The thesis follows the following sequence: an overview of legal discourse in chapter one; the interface between legal translation and general
problems translate legal discourse special_reference united_nations document solely devote study problem_associate english_arabic english legal_translation aim mind analyse authentic parallel text legal international legislative official_document parallel text refer texts language_communicative purpose render message text study_adopts contrastive model analyze describe linguistic_feature semantic_syntactic level fact see comprehensive model comparison since cover_area difficulty translate legal language process comparison fall_two stage first descriptive identifies area difference arabic_english texts relation element mention earlier second_stage critically_analyse parallel translations technique_use translate them stage attempt_provide suggestion solution problematic_area whenever possible follow follow sequence overview legal discourse interface legal_translation general