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Theoretical and Logical Prerequisites for Legal Translation ...
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The main research aim is to look at how formal principles of legal theory and logic across national jurisdictions affect translation of legislative texts. In the analyzed institutional legal context, official legislative drafting guidelines comprise the canon of good/quality legislation, universal and binding for each legal system. One of my research tasks is to juxtapose Polish legislative drafting guidelines with the European Union drafting guidelines, as well as with selected common law bill drafting manuals to see how certain parameters affect the way we process legislative texts in translation, and how different legal cultures influence the way we interpret legal texts. The qualitative analysis encompasses the legislative recommendations as to the formulation of legal definitions, the use of conjunctions, negation, and the grammatical category of aspect, mood and tense. Attempts are also made to search for any cross-cultural patterns of the analyzed parameters of normative texts. Thus, the comparison of ... : International Journal of Language & Law (JLL), Vol 7: EU Legal Culture and Translation ...
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legal translation, legislative drafting guidelines, normative text, legal theory, logic, legislative style, legal culture, quality; Social and Behavioral Sciences Linguistics Applied Linguistics; Arts and Humanities Language Interpretation and Translation
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.14762/jll.2018.047
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Reconstructing a legislative procedure for ‘error’ detection: the Rywingate case
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