Translation and the law / edited by Marshall Morris.

Contributor(s):

Morris, Marshall

Material type: Text

TextSeries: American Translators Association scholarly monograph series ; v. 8.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©1995.Description: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789027285751
9027285756

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Translation and the law.DDC classification:

418.02 22

LOC classification:

P306.A1 A53eb v.8

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17.45

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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.

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