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Provocări ale traducătorului şi interpretului juridic de limbă norvegiană
Challenges of the Norwegian legal translator and interpreter

Author(s): Crina Leon
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Editura Universităţii »Alexandru Ioan Cuza« din Iaşi
Keywords: Norwegian language; legal translator; legal interpreter

Summary/Abstract: Although Norway is not a member of the European Union (EU), it is a member of the European Economic Area (EEA) and has various connections with the EU countries, including Romania. In this paper, we focus on both legal translations involving Norwegian and Romanian and the challenges a legal interpreter using Norwegian and Romanian has to cope with. The task of a legal translator or interpreter of Norwegian is even more difficult since Norway has two official variants of the written language (Bokmål and Nynorsk) and a wide variety of spoken dialects, but no clearly established spoken standard. Both legal translators and interpreters have a great responsibility since their translations or interpreting may have serious legal consequences.

  • Issue Year: LXIII/2017
  • Issue No: I-bis
  • Page Range: 139-148
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian