1st Edition

Research Methods in Legal Translation and Interpreting Crossing Methodological Boundaries

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

The field of Legal translation and interpreting has strongly expanded over recent years. As it has developed into an independent branch of Translation Studies, this book advocates for a substantiated discussion of methods and methodology, as well as knowledge about the variety of approaches actually applied in the field. It is argued that, complex and multifaceted as it is, legal translation... Read more


Introduction to Research Methods in Legal Translation and Interpreting: Crossing Methodological Boundaries  1. Corpus methods in Legal Translation Studies  2. Implications of text categorisation for corpus-based legal translation research: the case of international institutional settings  3. Inverse legal translation: a corpus-driven study of multi-word units related to the structure of translated statutory provisions  4. Language of treaties – language of power relations?  5. Explicitation in Legal Translation: A Feature of Expertise? A Study of Spanish-Danish Translation of Judgments  6. Critical Discourse Analysis and the investigation of the interpreter's own positioning in a court hearing. A case study from an Austrian criminal court  7. How to apply comparative law to legal translation. A new 3-step juritraductological translating approach to legal texts  8. A matter of justice: integrating comparative law methods into the decision-making process in legal translation  9. A mixed-methods approach in Corpus-Based Interpreting Studies: quality of interpreting in criminal proceedings in Spain  10. An online survey as a means to research the ‘outstitutional’ legal translation market  11. Interviewing legal interpreters and translators: framing status perceptions and interactional and structural power

Biography

Biel, Łucja | Engberg, Jan | Martín Ruano, Rosario | Sosoni, Vilelmini