Legal Translation and the Dictionary / Marta Chromá.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chromá, Marta, author.

Series:

Lexicographica. Series Maior

Lexicographica. Series Maior ; 122

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Czech Republic--Language.

Law.

Law--Dictionaries.

Czech language--Lexicography.

Czech language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (122 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2013

Place of Publication:

Tübingen : Max Niemeyer Verlag, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study concentrates on three major issues creating a basis for the making of the "Czech-English Law Dictionary with Explanations", namely language, including terminology, in both the Czech and Anglo-American systems of law; the process of legal translation; and the lexicographic method of producing a bilingual law dictionary. Terminology has been considered the most significant feature of language for legal purposes. It encompasses a wide range of special-purpose vocabulary and higher syntactic units, including legal jargon. Conceptual analysis is to be pursued whenever an identical term in the target language does not exist or its full equivalent is in doubt. Legal translation should be based primarily on comparative legal, linguistic and genre analysis in order to make the transfer of legal information as precise, accurate and comprehensible as possible. The primary objective of legal translation is for the target recipient to be provided as explicit, extensive and precise legal information in the target language as is contained in the source text, complemented (by the translator) with facts rendering the original information fully comprehensible in the different legal environment and culture. A dictionary which will help its users to produce legal texts in the target language should be founded upon a profound comparative legal and linguistic analysis that will (a) determine equivalents at the levels of vocabulary, syntax and genre, (b) select the appropriate lexicographic material to be included in the dictionary, and (c) create entries in a user-friendly manner.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Foreword

I. Introduction

II. Law dictionary and the language of the law

IIΙ. Conclusion

IV. Zusammenfassung

V. Résumé

VI. Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9783110912616

3110912619

OCLC:

922949145