Arabic-English-Arabic Legal Translation

El-Farahaty, Hanem

doi:10.4324/9781315745893

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“…The use of archaic words that are no longer used in daily language also prevails in English legal language. The archaic words such as hereby and aforesaid date back to Old and Middle English and remain effective today in the legal language (El-Farahty, 2015). A movement towards 'Plain English' calls for simplifying the complex, outdated legal vocabulary to be easily understood by everyone today (Fakhouri, 2008;Tiersma, 1999).…”

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“…English terms borrowed from French after the Norman Conquest are also used in the legal discourse such as purchase and court (Alcaraz & Hughes, 2014). The formal register is a typical feature of legalese and is reflected by the use of formal terms and phrases such as your honor and your majesty (El-Farahty, 2015). Finally, culture-specific words (e.g., Privy Council), religious terms (e.g., in the name of God), doublets (e.g., by and between), and triplets (e.g., obey, observe and comply with) are used as well in English legal language (El-Farahty, 2015).…”

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The Application of Catford's Translation Shifts to the Translation of the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child from English into Arabic

Altwaijri¹

2019

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The objectives of this study were to determine the most frequent type of translation shifts according to Catford’s model of translation shifts in the translation of the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) from English into Arabic and to examine the inevitability of resorting to translation shifts in legal texts. To conduct the analysis, the researcher selected a sample covering the preamble and the three main parts of the Convention representing legal texts in general. Throughout the analysis, every translation shift was traced and manually counted to identify the most frequent type of translation shifts. The inevitability of each of the identified shifts was examined to conclude how necessary translation shifts were to preserve the meaning and effect of the source text. The findings indicated that intra-system shifts were the most frequent type of shifts with the frequency of 174 shifts (=26.6%), followed by unit shifts scoring 171 shifts (=26.3%), then structure shifts with the frequency of 161 shifts (=24.6%), then class shifts being identified 128 times (=19.6%), and finally level shifts with the frequency of 19 shifts (=2.9%). Regarding the inevitability of resorting to translation shifts, 80.1% (=523 cases) of identified translation shifts were obligatory due to the linguistic disparities between English and Arabic. Only 19.9% of detected (=130 cases) were optional due to the technicality of legal texts. Finally, exposure of translators to legal texts was recommended to understand the linguistic and stylistic characteristics of English and Arabic legal texts and to maintain the meaning in the TT.

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Section: Catford's Translation Shifts In Legal Texts 22mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Catford's Translation Shifts In Legal Texts 22mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Application of Catford's Translation Shifts to the Translation of the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child from English into Arabic

Altwaijri¹

2019

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“…One of the biggest challenges that these students face is developing their legal document composition skills to become successful lawyers. Legal document composition is essential in the legal profession because lawyers must draft pleadings, contracts, motions, briefs, and other legal documents (El-Farahaty, 2015).…”

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Utilizing Digital Reading Material to Enhance Legal Document Composition for Arabic Law Students

El-Zeiny,

Kandeel,

Almahdawi

et al. 2023

J. of Law and Sust. Develop.

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Purpose: This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of utilizing interactive e-books in improving the legal document composition skills of Arabic-speaking law students. Proficiency in legal document composition is a vital skill for aspiring legal professionals, yet it often presents a formidable challenge for students. Methodology/design/approach: Employing a quasi-experimental approach, this research assesses the impact of interactive e-books as a tool for enhancing writing skills, with a specific focus on Arabic-speaking students from the Faculty of Law at Mansoura University, Egypt during the academic year 2021-2022. The participants were divided into two groups: a control group consisting of 20 students and an experimental group comprising 20 students. Results and Discussion: The study's findings indicate that the group exposed to the experimental treatment, which involved the use of interactive e-books, outperformed the control group in enhancing their legal document composition skills. The interactive features embedded within the e-books, including immediate feedback and progress monitoring, proved highly effective in bolstering the participants' legal document composition abilities. Statistical analysis revealed a noteworthy difference between the two groups, with the experimental group demonstrating superior performance at a significance level of 0.05. Implications: These results have significant implications for both law students aiming to improve their legal document composition skills and curriculum designers seeking to enhance the educational experience in legal document composition.

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“…One crucial issue noted in Abdel-Fattah (2005) is that translating Arabic modals follows the stylistic preferences of the translator, a matter that will have a direct impact on the accuracy of the modal meaning and the consistency of translating them. Also, Abdel-Fattah's (2005) and El-Farahaty's (2015) studies have been applied to a small scale corpus, and due to the absence of authentic corpora, none of these or previous studies identified a well-defined list of deontic modal expressions and their equivalents in English. Hence this paper aims to fill this research gap in legal discourse in general and in legislative drafting in particular.…”

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A Corpus-Based Analysis of Deontic Modality of Obligation and Prohibition in Arabic/English Constitutions

El-Farahaty¹,

Elewa²

2020

Estud. Trad.

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It is argued that legal language should be formal, precise and clear to avoid ambiguity and/or misunderstanding. As rights and duties are communicated through modals, clarity and precision in drafting and translating them is crucial. Otherwise, there is a possibility of conveying loose messages in the source text or different and/or inconsistent messages in the target text. However, the drafting of Arabic modal expressions does not follow clear guidelines, and their translation differs from one translator to another. This paper investigates how deontic modality of obligation and prohibition is used in The Leeds Annotated Parallel Corpus of Arabic-English Constitutions in comparison to The Leeds Monolingual Corpus of English Constitutions. More specifically, the paper presents a classification of these modal expressions and investigates the different lexical variants expressed in a Corpus of Arabic Constitutions. The paper uses corpus-based tools to analyse the different lexical forms used for deontic modality of obligation and prohibition in Arabic and how they are rendered into English. Results of such analysis are compared to a non-translated Corpus of English Constitutions to find out whether the deontic meaning of the modals is comparable to the set of deontic modals used in the constitutions originally drafted in English. The corpus-based analysis gave a detailed classification of a variety of modal expressions used in the Arabic Corpus. It also showed that the translation of deontic modals of obligation and prohibition from Arabic into English is influenced by the source text lexical variations; however, the corpus techniques employed in the study managed to capture some comparable modals in both corpora.

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Arabic-English-Arabic Legal Translation

Cited by 21 publications

References 12 publications

The Application of Catford's Translation Shifts to the Translation of the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child from English into Arabic

The Application of Catford's Translation Shifts to the Translation of the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child from English into Arabic

Utilizing Digital Reading Material to Enhance Legal Document Composition for Arabic Law Students

A Corpus-Based Analysis of Deontic Modality of Obligation and Prohibition in Arabic/English Constitutions

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