Investigating the status of Italian as an ‘official minority language’ within the Swiss multilingual institutional system

Canavese, Paolo

doi:10.2307/j.ctv2269hww.9

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“…In terms of lexis, Swiss legal Italian corresponds to modern vocabulary. Around two-thirds of the vocabulary of LEX.CH.IT is part of the Basic Italian Vocabulary (De Mauro 2016) and a number of archaic, difficult or formal-register words and expressions typically used in legal language display low frequencies (see also Canavese 2022b).…”

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“…Comparing LEX.CH.IT to the EOP corpora reveals that in Swiss and EU legislation, which both feature translation-mediated multilingualism, linguistic complexity is lower than in implementing laws and Italian domestic legislation, which are characterised by monolingual drafting (Canavese 2022b;Canavese and Mori 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Burr 2000;Schnyder 2001;Schubarth 2001;Flückiger 2005;Egger and Ferrari 2016). Smallscale empirical studies have provided evidence for this hypothesis on the lexical level (Felici and Mori 2019;Canavese 2022b) and syntactic level (Canavese and Mori 2021). This thesis draws upon that foundation and sets out to answer three main research questions:…”

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“…Once published, all language versions are considered to be equally authentic. However, federal legislation is almost always drafted in German and to a lesser extent in French, or is co-drafted in these two languages, and then translated into Italian; only around 1% of legislation is drafted in Italian (Zwicky and Kübler 2018: 17-21) because of its position as an 'official minority language' (Canavese 2021). Translation is therefore essential to multilingual law-making.…”

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“…These faults can be avoided in the target text, and sometimes also rectified in the source text as well. In other words, the idea of "translation as a catalyst for clear legislation" (Canavese, 2022), before and after the adoption of a legislative act, seems to apply perfectly to the Swiss context.…”

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Translation and clarity in Swiss multilingual legislation: A qualitative study on textuality

Canavese

2023

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Debate around clear legal language has become very prolific in recent years. This especially applies to multilingual contexts, where clarity is crucial to ensuring the equivalence of equally binding language versions. Clarity is a multifaceted concept that can be analysed through different lenses. While several studies have tackled clarity from the lexical and terminological perspective, textuality remains a largely under-investigated area. This paper sets out to illustrate that different concepts of text linguistics can be extremely useful for investigating multilingual legislation and its level of comprehensibility. To this aim, a qualitative pilot study was designed. It examines a sample of Swiss federal legislative acts in their Italian, French and German versions and tries to reveal recurrent micro-textual aspects that help illustrate how translation can influence text comprehensibility. It was found that the three language versions often formulate the same legal provision using different linguistic structures. Slight changes, for instance in thematic structure, position of adverbials or use of punctuation, can create a canonical and more comprehensible formulation in the translated texts, without hampering equivalence at the content level. In this respect, it is key that drafters of legislation and translators are aware of the relevance and potential of textuality to ensuring a high level of clarity in multilingual legislation.

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Chapter 2. Exploring the potential of implicatures for assessing interpreting quality in the Swiss asylum procedure

Bugayong

2023

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Devoting more attention to a cognitive approach in Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS) may not only be useful for exploring translation and interpreting processes per se but also when facing real-life challenges such as hiring qualified interpreters. This chapter first introduces how communicative principles found in pragmatics can help define a common theoretical framework in TIS and how this would benefit the quality of Public Service Interpreting (PSI) more globally. It goes on to map PSI in the Swiss context and present preliminary findings from an exploratory study analyzing the assessment of aspiring interpreters for the Swiss asylum system. First results show how communicative principles as found e.g. in Relevance Theory appear to inform evaluators when judging interpreting quality.

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Investigating the status of Italian as an ‘official minority language’ within the Swiss multilingual institutional system

Cited by 3 publications

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Multilingual legislation and plain language

Multilingual legislation and plain language

Translation and clarity in Swiss multilingual legislation: A qualitative study on textuality

Chapter 2. Exploring the potential of implicatures for assessing interpreting quality in the Swiss asylum procedure

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