Step-by-step approach to teaching legal translation: the case of understanding English legal texts

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1750399X.2024.2345559" target="_blank" >10.1080/1750399X.2024.2345559</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Step-by-step approach to teaching legal translation: the case of understanding English legal texts

Original language description

This paper is based within the framework of step-by-step approach to teaching legal translation. The underlying philosophy behind this approach is that when specific aspects of legal translations are tackled in isolation and trainees become aware of the pitfalls involved and the possible solutions, this helps them in further training as well as in their professional practice. Drawing on this assumption, this paper introduces a case study dealing with understanding and interpretation of English legal texts from the classroom perspective. The paper presents a number of problems that pose difficulties to trainees and proposes exercises to help them overcome such problems in a systematic way. Although this paper uses Czech as a target language, the exercises can be adapted to teach legal translation from English into other target languages. The issues have been selected based on the author’s experience with addressing recurring problems faced by legal translation trainees. Such issues include understanding complex sentences showing all-inclusiveness and syntactic discontinuities, legal cross-referencing expressions (e.g. subject to and without prejudice to) or conjunctions whose meaning may not be transparent (e.g. provided, however, that).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60202 - Specific languages

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Interpreter and Translator Trainer

ISSN

1750-399X

e-ISSN

1757-0417

Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

1-18

UT code for WoS article

001208171200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85191343689