Translation of Legal Texts

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Authors	SMEJKALOVÁ Terezie
Year of publication	2009
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	COFOLA 2009: The Conference Proceedings
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Law
Citation
Field	Law sciences
Keywords	Legal text; translation; legal translator; concepts; conceptual equivalence
Description	This paper deals with the questions of legal language, legal translation and conceptual equivalence. It shortly comments on the problematic points arising when translating a legal text from Czech into English and vice versa. Furthermore, it tries to specify basic requirements a truly competent legal translator should fulfil. To step away from the dry theory, a reference is made to an experiment, focusing solely on the translation of contracts.
Related projects:	The European Context of the Development of Czech Law after 2004