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Title Translation and the law / edited by Marshall Morris
Published Amsterdam ; [Great Britain?] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1995

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Description 337 pages ; 24 cm
Series American Translation Association series ; vol. 8
American Translators Association scholarly monograph series, 0890-4111 ; volume VIII 1995
American Translation Association series ; vol. 8
American Translators Association scholarly monograph series ; v. 8
Contents 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
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
Summary Papers concerned with the complexities of legal translation and interpretation, the training and experience of legal translators, linguistic and cultural difficulties, and the legal responsibilities of translators and interpreters; Michael Cooke's paper on case in north east Arnhem Land annotated separately
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index
Subject Law -- Language.
Law -- Translating.
Law -- Translating -- United States.
Law -- United States.
Semantics (Law)
Translators -- United States.
Translators.
Author Morris, Marshall.
American Translators Association.
ISBN 155619627X (US)
9027231834 (Eur.)