Beschreibung:
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.
Introduction to Research Methods in Legal Translation and Interpreting: Crossing Methodological Boundaries 1. Corpus methods in Legal Translation Studies 2. Implications of text categorisation for corpus-based legal translation research: the case of international institutional settings 3. Inverse legal translation: a corpus-driven study of multi-word units related to the structure of translated statutory provisions 4. Language of treaties - language of power relations? 5. Explicitation in Legal Translation: A Feature of Expertise? A Study of Spanish-Danish Translation of Judgments 6. Critical Discourse Analysis and the investigation of the interpreter's own positioning in a court hearing. A case study from an Austrian criminal court 7. How to apply comparative law to legal translation. A new 3-step juritraductological translating approach to legal texts 8. A matter of justice: integrating comparative law methods into the decision-making process in legal translation 9. A mixed-methods approach in Corpus-Based Interpreting Studies: quality of interpreting in criminal proceedings in Spain 10. An online survey as a means to research the 'outstitutional' legal translation market 11. Interviewing legal interpreters and translators: framing status perceptions and interactional and structural power