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Translation and the law / edited by Marshall Morris.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: American Translators Association scholarly monograph series ; v. 8.Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 337 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 155619627X
  • 9781556196270
  • 9027231834
  • 9789027231833
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 418.0334 23
LOC classification:
  • P306.A1 A53 v.8
Contents:
Section 1. Translation and the language of the law. Indeterminacy, translation and the law / John E. Joseph. Understood by all concerned? : Anglo/Aboriginal legal translation / Michael Cooke -- Section 2. Responding to change and to difference. Riding the waves of fortune : translating legislation of the successor Soviet Republics / Cornelia E. Brown. Where the devil meets his grandmother : Iceland and European community legislation / Keneva Kunz. Legal interpreting on trial / Timothy Dunnigan and Bruce T. Downing --
Language in evidence : the pragmatics of translation and the judicial process / Mary Bucholtz. The use of translators and interpreters in cases requiring forensic speaker identification / Kate Storey. Translating Japanese legal documents into English / Vicki L. Beyer and Keld Conradsen. Culture clash : Anglo-American case law and German civil law in translation / Sylvia A. Smith -- Section 3. Professional issues, professional practice. On the horns of a dilemma : accuracy vs. brevity in the use of legal terms by court interpreters / Holly Mikkelson --
Textual density and the judiciary interpreter's performance / Janis Palma. A new wind of quality from Europe : implications of the court case cited by Holz-Mänttäri for the U.S. translation industry / Matt Hammond. The legal translator as information broker / Gerhard Obenaus -- Section 4. Persons, laws and the presence of the translator. Pragmatism, precept and passions : the attitudes of English-language legal systems to non-English speakers / Ruth Morris --
Las siete partidas in America problems of cultural transmission in the translation of legal signs / Marilyn Stone. Just interpreting : role conflicts and discourse types in court interpreting / Helge Niska.
Summary: Part of the "American Translators Association" series, this text covers such topics as: translation and the language of the law; responding to change and to difference; professional issues; and persons, laws and the presence of the translator.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1. Translation and the language of the law. Indeterminacy, translation and the law / John E. Joseph. Understood by all concerned? : Anglo/Aboriginal legal translation / Michael Cooke -- Section 2. Responding to change and to difference. Riding the waves of fortune : translating legislation of the successor Soviet Republics / Cornelia E. Brown. Where the devil meets his grandmother : Iceland and European community legislation / Keneva Kunz. Legal interpreting on trial / Timothy Dunnigan and Bruce T. Downing --

Language in evidence : the pragmatics of translation and the judicial process / Mary Bucholtz. The use of translators and interpreters in cases requiring forensic speaker identification / Kate Storey. Translating Japanese legal documents into English / Vicki L. Beyer and Keld Conradsen. Culture clash : Anglo-American case law and German civil law in translation / Sylvia A. Smith -- Section 3. Professional issues, professional practice. On the horns of a dilemma : accuracy vs. brevity in the use of legal terms by court interpreters / Holly Mikkelson --

Textual density and the judiciary interpreter's performance / Janis Palma. A new wind of quality from Europe : implications of the court case cited by Holz-Mänttäri for the U.S. translation industry / Matt Hammond. The legal translator as information broker / Gerhard Obenaus -- Section 4. Persons, laws and the presence of the translator. Pragmatism, precept and passions : the attitudes of English-language legal systems to non-English speakers / Ruth Morris --

Las siete partidas in America problems of cultural transmission in the translation of legal signs / Marilyn Stone. Just interpreting : role conflicts and discourse types in court interpreting / Helge Niska.

Part of the "American Translators Association" series, this text covers such topics as: translation and the language of the law; responding to change and to difference; professional issues; and persons, laws and the presence of the translator.

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