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9780230203501

Translation Issues in Language and Law

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230203501

  • ISBN10:

    0230203507

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-04-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Contributions from world-class specialists in Europe and the USA provide an overview of the major linguistic and legal issues arising in legal translation.

Author Biography

DIETER STEIN is Professor for English Language and Linguistics at Heinrich-Heine-Universitt, Dsseldorf, Germany. He is Editor-in-chief of eLanguage (http://elanguage.net/home.php). He is also the author of The Semantics of Syntactic Change (1990), co-editor of Subjectivity and Subjectivization (1995), Taming the Vernacular (1997), Pathways of Change, and Grammaticalization in English (2000). 
 
FRANCES OLSEN, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, has taught and lectured in hundreds of venues on every continent except Antarctica. She has published numerous articles and is editor of Feminist Legal Theory I: Foundations and Outlooks (1995) and Feminist Legal Theory II: Positioning Feminist Legal Theory Within the Law (1995).  
 
R. ALEXANDER LORZ holds the Chair for German and Foreign Public Law, International Public Law and European Law at Heinrich-Heine-University Dsseldorf, Germany. He is currently Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and the Arts in the German state of Hesse. He is member of the Board of the German Society of Comparative Law and heads the Section Comparative Public Law. He is also member of the Board of the German-American Lawyers Association and the Dsseldorf Institute for Foreign and Security Policy.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Forensic Translation: Practical Issues and their Theoretical Underpinnings
Language And Different Law Cultures Legal Cultures - Legal Languages
Language as a Barrier to Comparative Law
Statutory Interpretation in the EU: The Augustinian Approach
Globalising Trends in Legal Discourse
The Status and Position of Legal Translation: A Chapter in the Discursive Construction of Societies
0Translation at the Court of Justice of The European Communities
Drafting Or Translation Production Of Multilingual Legal Texts
Legal Translation in Canada. The Genius of Legal Language(S)
Concrete Problems In Legal Translation Pitfalls of English as a Contract Language
Isomorphism And Anisomorphism in the Translation of Legal Texts
Translation as a Dynamic Model in the Development of the Burundi Constitution(s)
References
Index
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