Research Methods in Legal Translation and Interpreting : Crossing Methodological Boundaries.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (231 pages)
- Law, Language and Communication Series .
- Law, Language and Communication Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- 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 juritraductological approach to the translation of 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 -- Index.
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.