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Introduction
Translation scholar and corpus linguists working on legal language and legal translation, in particular EU translation and eurolects
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January 2019 - present
The Journal of Specialised Translation
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- www.jostrans.org
October 2013 - present
December 2009 - December 2013
Education
October 2005 - June 2007
October 1998 - June 2004
October 1993 - July 1998
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Migrants and refugees with low language proficiency (LLP) have a higher risk of experiencing certain mental health disorders compared to non-migrant populations. They are also more likely to experience a lack of access to mental healthcare due to language- and culture-related barriers. As part of the MentalHealth4All project, a digital m...
Legal translators play a crucial role in protecting human and corporate rights, safeguarding legal security and promoting economies worldwide. This chapter discusses existing and emerging profiles, roles, responsibilities and professional practices in the diverse field of legal translation by focusing on the human factor-legal translators. Given th...
El presente trabajo explora la relación entre la globalización y la traducción jurídica, con el propósito de establecer futuros campos de investigación para la práctica profesional de esta especialidad de traducción y su docencia. Se inicia con una reflexión sobre los debates actuales sobre la (des)globalización como conjunto multidimensional de pr...
El presente trabajo explora la relación entre la globalización y la traducción jurídica,
con el propósito de establecer futuros campos de investigación para la práctica profesional de esta especialidad de traducción y su docencia. Se inicia con una reflexión sobre los debates actuales sobre la (des)globalización como conjunto multidimensional de pr...
Comparative law is a common subject-matter of research and teaching in many universities around the world, and the twenty-first century has aptly been termed 'the era of comparative law'. This Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Law presents a truly global perspective of comparative law today. The contributors are drawn from all parts of the world to...
As a core component of legal language used to draft, enforce and practice law, legal terms have fascinated lawyers, linguists, terminologists and other scholars for centuries. Third in the series, this Handbook offers a comprehensive compendium of the current state of knowledge on legal terminology. It is the first attempt to bring together perspec...
As a core component of legal language used to draft, enforce and practice law, legal terms have fascinated lawyers, linguists, terminologists and other scholars for centuries. Third in the series, this Handbook offers a comprehensive compendium of the current state of knowledge on legal terminology. It is the first attempt to bring together perspec...
As a core component of legal language used to draft, enforce and practice law, legal terms have fascinated lawyers, linguists, terminologists and other scholars for centuries. Third in the series, this Handbook offers a comprehensive compendium of the current state of knowledge on legal terminology. It is the first attempt to bring together perspec...
This paper examines how translation trainees deal with verb-noun terminological collocations when translating a legal text into their L2. The learner data is juxtaposed with professional translations of the same text and comparable non-translated documents. The results indicate that a large proportion of learner renditions is attested in the refere...
Streszczenie: Dynamiczny rozwój tłumaczeń maszynowych w ostatnich latach, a zwłasz-cza pojawienie się neuronowych tłumaczeń maszynowych, zmienia branżę usług języ-kowych. Z punktu widzenia automatyzacji można wyróżnić tłumaczenia wykonywane przez człowieka od podstaw i wspomagane komputerowo; tłumaczenia wspomagane maszynowo; tłumaczenia maszynowe...
Chapter 19 maps the field of legal translation practice, research and training, beginning with an overview of the history of legal translation and its reorientation from literalness towards functional, receiver-oriented approaches which ensure equivalent effects and perceive legal translation as an act of legal communication. The chapter identifies...
The objective of this paper is to investigate the evolution of the Polish Eurolect, a supranational translator-mediated variety of legal Polish by: (1) analysing circumstances in which it emerged and took shape; and (2) tracking its development from the formative pre-accession to mature post-accession stage. The first part documents challenges face...
What is ‘translation’? Even as the scholarly viewpoint of translation studies has expanded over recent years, the notion of ‘translation’ has remained fixedly defined by its interlinguistic element. However, there are many different contexts and disciplines in which translation takes place for which this definition is entirely unsuitable.
Exploring...
The relevance of translation has never been greater. The challenges of the 21st century are truly glocal and societies are required to manage diversities like never before. Cultural and linguistic diversities cut across ideological systems, those carefully crafted to uphold prevailing hierarchies of power, making asymmetries inescapable. Translatio...
The objective of this paper is to analyse how European Union (EU) supra-national terms related to consumer protection transfer into domestic legal systems of three English-language jurisdictions (the UK, Ireland and Malta) during the transposition of EU directives. Transposition is a process of incorporating EU directives into national law and capt...
The objective of this chapter is to approach the topic of translation quality through the lens of corrigenda, an instrument which formally rectifies errors in EU legal acts. This instrument is part of the European Commission's ex-post quality monitoring metrics included in the correction rate. Corrigenda have been rarely studied despite their poten...
Terminological variation, i.e. synonymy at the term level, is regarded as a recurrent problem in EU law. Working with a parallel-comparable corpus of EU English-Polish legislation, soft law and judgments in the area of competition, this study explores how source-language synonymy is handled in translation across institutional genres. The findings s...
In the European Union, legal discourses involve an unprecedented degree of mediation by translators and filtering through 24 official languages. Combined with a complex array of institutional, political, procedural and supranational factors, it results in an emergence of “Europeanized” parallel varieties of national legal languages—hybrids known as...
This paper explores the formulaicity of EU translations into Polish across four institutional genres (legislation, judgments, reports, websites) with reference to the corresponding EU English corpora in order to understand how the degree of formulaicity is affected by the variable of genre. Formulaicity is operationalised as lexical bundles – high-...
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...
Panel at the 13 th EST Congress in Stellenbosch, South Africa 9-13 September 2019 What does quality mean in legal translation and interpreting, and why does it matter? What is required of academic programmes, trainees and trainers in order to ensure effective legal translator training? What are the latest professional developments and limitations i...
The present chapter has a twofold aim: first, it reports on the panel EU Legal Culture and Translation at the ILLA (International Law and Language Association) relaunch conference, focusing on the main topics which emerged from the contributions — most notably, the hybridity of translator-mediated EU legal culture; second, it explores EU hybridity...
The chapter explores the Polish Eurolect, the largest Slavonic language in the EU. In respect of EU-rooted phenomena, the Polish Eurolect shows a high frequency of semantic Europeisms and a low overlap of lexical bundles. As regards contact-induced features, the Eurolect is subject to strong interference from EU English in the form of borrowings an...
This chapter presents the glossary of collocations of key terms identified in the EU English Competition Corpus for the purposes of the analysis presented in previous chapter. The aim of compiling a glossary of collocations and other phrasemes was to assist legal practitioners and other professionals who are non-native speakers of English in the re...
The objective of this chapter is, first, to identify key terms in EU Competition Law in English and, secondly, to identify and examine their collocational environment via the corpus methodology. The first part of the chapter presents a theoretical background on EU English as a supranational variety of English due to the increased mediation of conte...
Biel, Łucja. 2018. “Corpora in Institutional Legal Translation: Small Steps and the Big Picture.” In Institutional Translation for International Governance: Enhancing Quality in Multilingual Legal Communication, edited by Fernando Prieto Ramos, 25-36. London: Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/institutional-translation-for-inter...
This article introduces the special issue of JLL on EU legal culture and translation. The introduction gives an overview of the papers comprised in the special issue and provides the theoretical background to set the scene for the discussion in the papers. The special issue is a follow up on the panel organised at the Language and Law in a World of...
The book provides an overview of EU competition law with a focus on the main developments in Italy, Spain, Greece, Poland and Croatia and offers an in-depth analysis of the role of language, translation and multilingualism in its implementation and interpretation.
The first part of the book focuses on the main developments in EU competition law in...
Eurolekt jest nową „europejską” hybrydową odmianą języka polskiego, stosowaną w kontekście unijnym, będącą wynikiem komunikacji odbywającej się za pośrednictwem tłumaczy. Wykształcenie się nowej odmiany jest konsekwencją pełnienia przez język polski roli jednego z 24 języków urzędowych Unii Europejskiej (UE). Hybrydowość eurolektu wiąże się z wielo...
Artykuł jest próbą krytycznej oceny części pisemnej egzaminu w świetle realiów wykonywania zawodu. Ocenie zostaną poddane szczególnie następujące elementy: kryteria oceny, w tym niska waga kryterium zgodności treści oraz brak kryterium błędu krytycznego, zakaz korzystania z materiałów pomocniczych (leksykonów, tekstów ustaw) i ograniczona możliwość...
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The objective of the paper is to propose a multi-perspective and mixed-method research framework for legal translation by modelling key dimensions and factors applicable to legal translation. As a result of the ongoing expansion of Legal Translation Studies, the field is experiencing a methodological development, which extends our perspective on le...
The book is one of the few in-depth investigations into the nature of EU legal translation and its impact on national legal languages. It is also the first attempt to characterise EU Polish, a language of supranational law and a hybrid variant of legal Polish emerging via translation. The book applies Chesterman's concept of textual fit, that is ho...
The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how comparable corpora may be used in the classroom to increase the communicative dimension of legal translations, an aspect which tends to be neglected in training. The perspective is that of an English-Polish translator trainer in the Master’s translation programme. The author proposes two complementa...
Although central in translation practice, and increasing in volume as well as impact due to the growing globalisation and explosion of financial transactions and increasing business activity, economic translation –including business and financial translation – has been little researched and discussed over the years. Yet it constitutes a fascinating...
The purpose of this volume is to explore key issues, approaches and challenges to quality in institutional translation by confronting academics’ and practitioners’ perspectives. What the reader will find in this book is an interplay of two approaches: academic contributions providing the conceptual and theoretical background for discussing quality...
The sworn translator examination versus the reality of professional practice: a critical voice in connection with the verification of sworn translator candidates’ competences
Summary
The paper attempts to critically evaluate the sworn translator examination in the light of the reality of professional practice. The analysis will cover the following...
The chapter investigates the behavior of multi-word patterns in legal translation. Its objective is to explore the patterning of translator-mediated multilingual legislation with a view to gaining a better understanding of how the translation process and multilingualism constraints affect the formulaicity of legal language and examining to what ext...
Mixed corpus design for researching the Eurolect: a genre-based comparable-parallel corpus in the PL EUROLECT project Mieszana struktura korpusu do badania eurolektu – gatunkowy korpus porównawczo-równoległy w ramach projektu PL EUROLECT Streszczenie W artykule opisano mieszaną strukturę gatunkowego kor-pusu porównawczo-równoległego budowanego w ra...
Translation of EU law versus the central concepts of Translation Studies
The objective of the paper was: (1) to analyse EU translation in light of central concepts of Translation Studies, and (2) to attempt a synthesis of numerous studies on EU translation to describe its distinctive features. EU law is adopted in 24 official languages and is appl...
Celem artykułu jest zbadanie w sposób empiryczny dystrybucji i funkcji wyrażeń przyimkowych zawierających przyimki proste i wtórne w polskim języku prawnym, zarówno w jego odmianie krajowej, jak i unijnej, oraz na tle ogólnego języka polskiego. Na podstawie wcześniejszych badań nad polskim językiem prawnym w ramach projektu Eurofog przyjęto hipotez...
The paper explores the hypothesis that a large proportion of non-terminological word combinations in legislation is built around complex prepositions, which significantly contribute to phraseological profiles of legislative genres. The paper analyses the distribution and functions of complex prepositions in multilingual EU law and national law, on...
Zarys treści: Celem artykułu jest omówienie założeń translatoryki korpusowej jako nowej metodologii badań nad przekładem. Artykuł pozycjonuje translatorykę korpusową na tle najnowszych kierunków badań nad przekładem (" zwrot technologiczny ") i omawia jej teoretyczne podstawy wywodzące się z ję-zykoznawstwa korpusowego i opisowych badań nad przekła...
This paper discusses the textual fit of translated EU law – that is, how its language differs from that of nontranslated Polish law – at the level of deontic modality patterns. The study is part of a larger three-year project and was conducted on the following multilingual comparative corpora: (1) The Polish Translation JRC Acquis Corpus, a corpus...
Legal Translator as a Communicator
A review of Borja Albi, Anabel and Fernando Prieto Ramos (eds): Legal
Translation in Context. Professional Issues and Prospects: Series
New Trends in Translation Studies, 2013, Peter Lang, Oxford,
Vol. 4, 315 pp
Łucja Biel (2014) Lost in the Eurofog: The Textual Fit of Translated Law. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
Chapter 3 of the book Lost in the Eurofog. The Textual Fit of Translated Law
The introduction presents an overview of traditional research methods in Legal Translation Studies and discusses new developments as represented by the papers comprised in the special issue. The predominant methodology is corpus-based; there is a clear shift from qualitative to quantitative methods. Corpus-based methods are applied to the study of...
The introduction presents an overview of traditional research methods in Legal Translation Studies and discusses new developments as represented by the papers comprised in the special issue. The predominant methodology is corpus-based; there is a clear shift from qualitative to quantitative methods. Corpus-based methods are applied to the study of...
LEGAL TEXT AS A HYPERTEXT: INTERTEXTUALITY OF TRANSLATED INTERNATIONAL LAW RELATED TO TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN BEINGS
Abstract: The paper examines the intertextuality of translated legislation with a case study of international legal instruments combating trafficking in human beings. The instruments come from three systems (United Nations, Council of...
Integrative functional approach in legal translation teaching
The paper introduces an integrative functional approach to legal translation teaching at translation programmes taught as part of Philology major. The approach is based on functionalism, professional realism of training, and social constructivism. The main objective is to train translat...
The paper discusses areas of similarity and difference in the phraseology of key terms in UK and Polish company law. The analysis is based on two comparable corpora of company law legislation. Similarities are motivated by the shared COMPANY-IS-A-PERSON metaphor and related conceptual scenarios, while differences arise from their system-specific in...
Quality of legal translation in light of EN 15038 standard of translation services and hypotheses of translation universals
Summary
The paper discusses the quality of legal translation under the EN 15038 standard of translation services and the hypotheses of translation universals. The standard, Translation services ─ Service requirements, offers...
The paper proposes how to integrate professional realism in BA legal translation classes
at the level of translation competence and translator competence. The distinction
between competences is adopted from Kiraly, where the former means the ability to
translate to the required standard while the latter is the ability to function efficiently as
a p...
The paper presents an overview of the EN 15038:2006 standard, Translation services— Service requirements, and analyses its implications for the translation industry and specialised translator training in tertiary education institutions. It is the first pan-European standard which addresses the quality of the translation process specifically and est...
Handel ludźmi jest procederem, którym zajmują się najczęściej zorganizowane grupy przestępcze prowadzące działalność o charakterze transgranicznym. Z uwagi na jego międzynarodową specyfikę na różnych etapach procesu karnego angażowani są tłumacze przysięgli. Na mocy porozumień międzynarodowych ofiarom handlu ludźmi należy zapewnić informacje w języ...
The article discusses fundamental terminology and phraseology connected with company representation in Polish law and has two objectives. The first objective is to conduct a detailed analysis of the most salient terms, prokurent, pełnomocnik zgromadzenia, kurator spółki, pełnomocnik do głosowania and przedstawiciel, with a view to determining their...
ucja Biel (2010) " Proxemic motivation in language: relational metaphors and registers " ; In: Danuta Stanulewicz, Tadeusz Z. Wolański, Joanna Redzimska (eds) (2010) Lingua Terra Cognita II. A Festschrift for Professor Roman Kalisz, Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 183-203. Pre-print version Proxemic motivation in language: relational m...
Artykul omawia specyfike terminow prawniczych i struktury wiedzy aktywowane przez terminy. W analizie zastosowano metodologie jezykoznawstwa kognitywnego. Terminy pelnią role skrotow prowadzących do pojec zakotwiczonych w strukturach wiedzy, jak np.: domeny, scenariusze, modele kognitywne i ramy. Struktury wiedzy są odmiennie zorganizowane w poszcz...
The introduction of electronic corpora to linguistics has been compared to the introduction of telescopes in astronomy
(Stubbs 2004: 107). Indeed, the use of computers in language studies was inevitable. Corpus-based and corpus-driven
studies of language have become a mainstream methodology used in many branches of linguistics. Since the 1990s they...
The paper examines the organization of background knowledge structures in legal language and related incongruities of legal terms. The cognitive linguistics methodology, in particular its findings on the nature of meaning, is applied. Terms serve as prompts with a semantic potential to activate various levels of knowledge structures, such as domain...
The article discusses terminology mining on a small scale as used by legal freelance
translators in practice, and recent developments in this area. Major properties of legal
terms are discussed from the Cognitive Linguistics perspective where terms are seen as
prompts that activate background knowledge structures. Next various resources are
present...
Gdańsk COMMUNICATIVE DISTANCE IN INTERACTION: VERBAL AND NONVERBAL EXPRESSION IN ENGLISH Human relationships are perceived, conceptualised, and expressed, to a large degree, in spatial terms. Being a fundamental dimension of the SPACE domain, distance may be regarded as a primary concept: it is experientially basic, concrete, and well-known. It is...
