The observation o f the context understanding o f the legal text as the basis o f the translation Cover Image

Z obserwacji nad kontekstowym rozumieniem tekstu prawnego jako podstawą translacji
The observation o f the context understanding o f the legal text as the basis o f the translation

Author(s): Maciej Nawacki, Joanna Nawacka
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Philology, Translation Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: legal text;context understanding;tlegal texts translation;

Summary/Abstract: The present article attempts to take note of some existing problems with the legal texts translation. The legal texts translation has to take into consideration the fact, that the text is experienced in two ways - translated text is the subject to further interpretation. A translator translating the legal text from Russian into Polish faces difficulties with choosing the proper lexems. Russian-Polish translating dictionaries do not always present all the meanings of the given lexems and first and foremost they do not always consider language of the law. A translator himself has to use in a translation a inner sentence context, which exceeds the context of a word which is completive to a phrase, as well as a translator has to use a surround sentence context and in comprehensiveness a legal language context which often allows to reduce the meaning of translated lexeme in relation to semantic field, resulting from the context of a word which is completive to a phrase.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: XII
  • Page Range: 145-159
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish