Research Catalog

Title

Translation issues in language and law / edited by Frances Olsen, Alexander Lorz and Dieter Stein.

Publication

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lorz, Ralph Alexander.
• Olsen, Frances E.
• Stein, Dieter, 1946-

Description

x, 239 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

In a modern world with its growing internationalization in trade, commerce, business, science and culture, generating an increasing need for communication and contact between legal cultures is the paramount phenomenon. By addressing the major linguistic and legal issues arising in legal translation in an exemplary fashion the book presents a representative and scientifically-based overview of the major issues in this field of contact between two disciplines and an indispensable introduction to the field for scholars, practitioners and students alike. The individual chapters, written by an international intersection of egregious scholars, teachers and practitioners in the field with competencies and experience in the field, meet the increasing demand for a scientifically-based overview of the topic, ranging from the basis of translation difficulties in deeper differences between legal cultures and the effect of translation on legal systems via solutions offered in specific intercultural settings such as the EU to down-to-earth suggestions for handling specific translational problems in mediating between two concrete languages.

Subject

• Law > Language > Congresses
• Law > Translating > Congresses
• LAW > Jurisprudence
• LAW > General Practice
• LAW > Reference
• LAW > Essays
• LAW > Paralegals & Paralegalism
• LAW > Practical Guides
• Law > Language
• Law > Translating
• Recht
• Fachsprache
• Übersetzung

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• This volume represents a selection of papers from the International Conference on Language and Law at Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf, Germany, in May 2006, jointly organized by the University of California at Los Angeles Law School, Heinrich-Heine-University Law School and the Department of English Language and Linguistics.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-231) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Legal cultures, legal languages -- Language as a barrier to comparative law -- Statutory interpretation in the EU : the Augustinian approach -- Globalizing trends in legal discourse -- The status and position of legal translation : a chapter in the discursive construction of societies -- Translation at the Court of Justice of the European Communities -- Drafting or translation : production of multilingual legal texts -- Legal translation in Canada : the genius of legal language(s) -- Pitfalls of English as a contract language -- Isomorphism and anisomorphism in the translation of legal texts -- Translation as a dynamic model in the development of the Burundi constitution(s).

ISBN

• 9780230203501 (alk. paper)
• 0230203507 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008030453

OCLC

233798899

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library