The Ashgate handbook of legal translation / edited by Le Cheng, King Kui Sin, Anne Wagner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cheng, Le, editor.

Sin, King Kui, 1947- editor.

Wagner, Anne, 1968- editor.

Series:

Law, language and communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Translating.

Law.

Physical Description:

xxi, 325 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2014]

Contents:

Foreword : new challenges for legal translation / Heikki Eero Sakari Mattila

Legal translatability process as the "third space" : insights into theory and practice / Anne Wagner, King-Kui Sin and Le Cheng

Translation vs. decoding strategies in law and economics scholarship / Mariusz Jerzy Golecki

Cultural transfer and conceptualisation in legal discourse / Anne Wagner, King-Kui Sin and Le Cheng

Lost in translation : linguistic diversity and the elusive quest for plain meaning in the law / Janet Ainsworth

Translation equivalence as a legal fiction / Janny HC Leung

Trying to see the wood despite the trees : a plain approach to legal translation / Víctor González-Ruiz

Minimal unit of legal translation vs. minimal unit of thought / Svetlana V. Vlasenko

Parameters for problem-solving in legal translation : implications for legal lexicography and institutional terminology management

Fernando prieto ramos

Structuring a legal translation course : a framework for decision-making in legal translator training / Catherine Way

EU legislative texts and translation / Colin Robertson

Phraseology in legal translation: a corpus-based analysis of textual mapping in EU law / Łucja Biel

Translating international arbitration norms into the Italian language and culture / Maurizio Gotti

Translating domestic legislation: a comparative analysis of English versions of Brazilian law on arbitration / Celina Frade

Translation of Japanese laws and regulations / Kayoko Takeda and Yasuhiro Sekine

Important translation strategies used in legal translation : examples of Hooper's translation of the Ottoman majalla into English / Rafat Y. Alwazna

On the translation of the criminal procedure law of the PRC / Lijin Sha and Jian Li

The new Czech civil code : lessons from legal translation

a case-study analysis / Marta Chromá

Multilevel translation analysis of a key legal concept : persona juris and legal pluralism / Sandy Lamalle

Afterword : the trials and tribulations of legal translation / Deborah Cao.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409469667

1409469662

OCLC:

878813018