Translation and the Law Dictionary

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Translation and the Law Dictionary
Original language description
The practice, as well as theory, of bilingual (or multilingual) legal lexicography lags behind the practice and theory of the translation of legal texts. Dictionary making requires much deeper and more extensive knowledge of law in both the source and target language cultures than the practice of legal translation. One of the reasons supporting this premise is that the lexicographer, compiling individual entries and looking for relevant equivalents, sooner or later resorts to a certain degree of inductive generalization since the dictionary cannot contain all possible occurrences of a particular word in all possible source language legal contexts and their target language equivalents. Legal translators, on the other hand, expect their translational legal dictionary to offer equivalents suitable and proper in their particular translation of a particular legal text in a particular legal context. This tension between expectations and needs of legal translators and the potential of transla
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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