Translation as Intercultural Transfer: The Case of Law  

Oleh:

Pommer, Sieglinde E.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: SKASE : Interpretation and Translation vol. 3 no. 1 (2008), page 17-21.
Fulltext: Pommer.pdf (26.04KB)

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The Cultural Turn in Translation Studies has promoted the understanding of translating as a complex activity raising difficult questions about how to handle culture-specific assumptions. Legal translators are confronted with the asymmetry of legal systems, the relativity of concepts, and have to deal with inconsistent categorizations and classifications. Their task as cultural mediators is to adequately communicate information about foreign law specifically taking into account the divergent previous knowledge of the target audience in order to avoid misunderstandings. This article investigates more closely the relationship between law, culture, and communication. Exploring the consequences of mutual influences among legal traditions, we discuss the phenomenon of transculturation in the field of law and question how legal information is possibly altered by its transfer from one legal system and legal language to another. Showing how cultural embeddedness conditions legal translation, we suggest strategies of how to best meet the challenge of communicating law as culture.

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