Problems in Certified Translation of Civil Registry Records’ Copies from French into Polish Cover Image

Les difficultés de la traduction certifiée d’actes d’état civil français vers le polonais
Problems in Certified Translation of Civil Registry Records’ Copies from French into Polish

Author(s): Agnieszka Konowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: certified translator; certified translation; copy certificate of a civil registry record; legal systems’ differences

Summary/Abstract: Copy certificates of civil registry records are a specific type of documents, whose translation takes a special place in certified translators’ everyday work. Translators are faced with a series of rather important problems. The aim of this paper is to analyse the most serious of those problems. The author attempts the analysis by dividing the problems into those resulting from the differences between the French and the Polish legal systems and the ones connected with the language as such, and which can actually be divided into four groups of difficulties arising from terminology, morphosyntax, stylistics and orthography.

  • Issue Year: 62/2014
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 123-131
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: French