Interaction of law and language in the EU: Challenges of translating in multilingual environment
This paper analyses the interaction between law and language in the EU multilingual context. It focuses on challenges in legal translation stemming from a new and hybrid EU legal system that developed over time through the influence of several European legal traditions. It is argued that the choice...
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| description | This paper analyses the interaction between law and language in the EU multilingual context. It focuses on challenges in legal translation stemming from a new and hybrid EU legal system that developed over time through the influence of several European legal traditions. It is argued that the choice of English in translation of EU law as a source language, and in communication with the EU institutions poses several challenges to legal translation, in particular an inability to reconcile civil law traditions with common law traditions. Equally challenging is to translate specific EU legal and expert terminology that is often exclusive only to the EU legal system. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-eb7e17ca0a874de1a6b855d09dfa7da12025-08-20T03:16:15ZdeuZHAWJoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation1740-357X2017-01-012710.26034/cm.jostrans.2017.259Interaction of law and language in the EU: Challenges of translating in multilingual environmentAleksandra ČavoškiThis paper analyses the interaction between law and language in the EU multilingual context. It focuses on challenges in legal translation stemming from a new and hybrid EU legal system that developed over time through the influence of several European legal traditions. It is argued that the choice of English in translation of EU law as a source language, and in communication with the EU institutions poses several challenges to legal translation, in particular an inability to reconcile civil law traditions with common law traditions. Equally challenging is to translate specific EU legal and expert terminology that is often exclusive only to the EU legal system.https://www.jostrans.org/article/view/7777 |
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| title | Interaction of law and language in the EU: Challenges of translating in multilingual environment |
| title_full | Interaction of law and language in the EU: Challenges of translating in multilingual environment |
| title_fullStr | Interaction of law and language in the EU: Challenges of translating in multilingual environment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Interaction of law and language in the EU: Challenges of translating in multilingual environment |
| title_short | Interaction of law and language in the EU: Challenges of translating in multilingual environment |
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