Legal translation

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The Legal translation's approach to texts

Linguistic features of legal translation

Procedural repetition of formulae

Legal speech acts

Technical style

A special terminology

Standard macro-structures

Focus on translation problems in the law

Cultural aspects

Various legal backgrounds of translation

British common law

European legislation

Roman constitutional law of antiquity

Legal Concepts and terminology

Levels of abstraction

Concepts of European law

Legalistic ideas

Actions and relations

Conditions

Subjects and rights

Cases of legal translation

International treaties

Political changes

New law texts

Trade contracts

Foreign court decissions

Penal proceedings

Personal documents

Education certificate

Divorce decree

Birth certificate

Translation and the law

Disciplines

Comparative law

Translations studies

Hermeutics

Reflection

Holistic nature

Process character

Phenomenology

Historicity

Subjectivity

The challenges and opportunities

Legal translation training in the 21st century

Model

Social practice

Discourse practice

Source text

Legal translators and ethics

Code of moral principles

Legal translators and society

Translations of academic degrees

Charging for legal translation

Per service

Per hour

Per line

Per word

Legal translation and the profession

Basic knowledge of a sentence or lawsuit

Provide solutions

Legal translation and technology

Computer - aided translation tools

Features of english contract

Lexical features

Long sentences

Express complex ideas

Borrowed words

Adopted from a different language

Modal verbs

Stipulate rights and obligations

Archaic words

Adverbs adding one or several prepositions

Example: herewith, herein, thereinafter

Technical terms

Vocabulary employed in legal terms

Common words with special meaning

Formal words

Demonstrate autorithy

First letter to be capitalized

Laws and regulations

Parties to the contract

Monetary names

International conventions

Organizations involved

Legal translation