Integrating the Needs of the Local Market in Teaching Legal Translation

Abstract

The discussion presented in the paper is an attempt to set out the market-oriented ground for teaching legal translation in the court setting. The postulate is that information about the prevalent types of civil cases involving translation and the patterns as regards dominating textual genres in various categories of court cases can make the didactic process in the said domain more effective, market-oriented and finally enhance the rhetorical and pragmatic expertise of students and translators operating in the said field. In order to collect the necessary data the author conducted a search of court files, compiled a corpus of the relevant texts and performed statistical analysis. The relevant material was selected on the basis od being qualified as involving a foreign element, whichin most general termsimplies the linguistic processing of the documents in translation 2 . The data were analysed statistically with the intention to determine the patterns related to the directionality of translation, instituional distribution of the translation process, and the genre scheme. The local dimension as regards the framework of the research approach which underlies the study is based on the assumptions of the GENTT research group on multilingual management and translation of court documents 3 .

Capitalising on Polish Translation Market Data in the Field of Commercial Law

“…In order to encapsulate the organising force for setting the research project on the right path, the author referred to the overriding notion of a case with foreign element which determined the conceptual framework of the questionnaire. The said concept was borrowed from the legal theory referred to as a case with foreign element defined as '[…] any court proceedings, where at least one party has a seat abroad, there is a need to examine evidence abroad or the object of the dispute is foreign' (Więcławska 2016: 245-253 after Gołaczyński 2015. 8 It was assumed that adjudication 7 As discussed in Więcławska (2013: 73-86) Polish legislation provides for the models of trans-border communication.…”

Horizontal and Vertical Distribution Patterns of Nearly-Synonymous Terms in the Language of Law

“…151 KSH). From the linguistic perspective, in reference to partnerships covering specific types of legal forms, 22 the term wspólnik appears as a hyperonym for terms denoting more specific forms of participation, i.e. for the following hyponyms: komplementariusz, komandytariusz and even akcjonariusz, when used in reference to a limited joint-stock company and not to a joint-stock company.…”