Research Methods in Legal Translation and Interpreting (Law, Language and Communication) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367730006 ISBN 13: 9780367730000

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

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 calls for research that might cross boundaries across research approaches and disciplines in order to shed light on the many facets of this social practice. The volume addresses the challenge of methodological consolidation, triangulation and refinement. The work presents examples of the variety of theoretical approaches which have been developed in the discipline and of the methodological sophistication which is currently being called for. In this regard, by combining different perspectives, they expand our understanding of the roles played by legal translators and interpreters, who emerge as linguistic and intercultural mediators dealing with a rich variety of legal texts; as knowledge communicators and as builders of specialised knowledge; as social agents performing a socially-situated activity; as decision-makers and agents subject to and redefining power relations, and as political actors shaping legal cultures and negotiating cultural identities, as well as their own professional identity.

Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Biel, Łucja | Engberg, Jan | Martín Ruano, Rosario | Sosoni, Vilelmini

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367730006
• ISBN 13: 9780367730000
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Biel Łucja, Engberg Jan, Martín Ruano Rosario, Sosoni Vilelmini