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Translation Issues in Language and Law

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Frances Olsen

    1. University of California, Los Angeles, USA

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  2. Alexander Lorz

    1. Düsseldorf University, Germany

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  3. Dieter Stein

    1. Düsseldorf University, Germany

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Forensic Translation — Practical Issues and their Theoretical Underpinnings

    1. Introduction: Forensic Translation — Practical Issues and their Theoretical Underpinnings

      • Dieter Stein
      Pages 1-4

  3. Language and Different Law Cultures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Legal Cultures — Legal Languages

      • Uwe Kischel
      Pages 7-17

    3. Language as a Barrier to Comparative Law

      • Oliver Brand
      Pages 18-34

    4. Statutory Interpretation in the EU: the Augustinian Approach

      • Lawrence M. Solan
      Pages 35-54

    5. Globalizing Trends in Legal Discourse

      • Maurizio Gotti
      Pages 55-75

    6. The Status and Position of Legal Translation: a Chapter in the Discursive Construction of Societies

      • José Lambert
      Pages 76-95

  4. Handling Legal Discourse in the Modern World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Translation at the Court of Justice of the European Communities

      • Karen McAuliffe
      Pages 99-115

    3. Drafting or Translation — Production of Multilingual Legal Texts

      • Agnieszka Doczekalska
      Pages 116-135

    4. Legal Translation in Canada: the Genius of Legal Language(s)

      • Louis Beaudoin
      Pages 136-144

  5. Concrete Problems in Legal Translation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. Pitfalls of English as a Contract Language

      • Volker Triebel
      Pages 147-181

    3. Isomorphism and Anisomorphism in the Translation of Legal Texts

      • Enrique Alcaraz Varó
      Pages 182-192

    4. Translation as a Dynamic Model in the Development of the Burundi Constitution(s)

      • Jean-Baptist Bigirimana
      Pages 193-212

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 213-239
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About this book

With contributions from world-class specialists this first book-length work looks at translation issues in forensic linguistics, where accuracy and cultural understandings play a prominent part in the legal process.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Los Angeles, USA

    Frances Olsen

  • Düsseldorf University, Germany

    Alexander Lorz, Dieter Stein

About the editors

ENRIQUE ALCARAZ-VARÓ (d. 2009) University of Alicante, Spain LOUIS BEAUDOIN University of Sherbrooke, Canada JEAN-BAPTIST BIGIRIMANA University of Leuven, Belgium OLIVER BRAND is Lecturer at the University of Münster, Germany AGNIESZKA DOCZEKALSKA University of Florence, Italy MAURIZIO GOTTI University of Bergamo, Italy UWE KISCHEL is attorney-at-law (New York), Mercator Professor of Public Law, European Law and Comparative Law (Northeastern Europe), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald, Germany JOSÉ LAMBERT University of Leuven, Belgium KAREN MCAULIFFE School of Law, University of Exeter, UK LAWRENCE M. SOLAN is Don Forchelli Professor of Law, Director, Center for the Study of Law, Language and Cognition, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Brooklyn Law School, USA VOLKER TRIEBEL is a partner at Lovells in Düsseldorf, Germany

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