Translating legal terminology and phraseology: between inter-systemic incongruity and multilingual harmonization

“Más bellas y más infieles que nunca”. Usos y percepciones en materia tecnológica entre el profesorado de traducción jurídica de España

“…Sin embargo, tal y como apuntaba Cao (2007) en su momento, o Enberg más recientemente (2020), dichos debates han de referirse por fuerza a la traducción entendida como una equivalencia conceptual directa o unívoca. La realidad, por contra, nos muestra que la traducción jurídica es, de facto, posible; y la naturaleza multilingüe de las instituciones internacionales y supranacionales son prueba de ello, al igual que la transposición efectiva de normativa internacional en ordenamientos jurídicos nacionales o la convergencia hacia conceptos globales, compartidos, en el comercio y las operaciones internacionales (Prieto, 2021).…”

Translation strategy of legal terms with Chinese characteristics in Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China based on Skopos theory

“…Terminology is indispensable to science [ 5 ], expressing connotations of a theory [ 6 ] and manifesting essential features [ 7 ]. Especially, legal terms, which are tied to the legal system [ 8 ], provide multiple ways of structuring abstract legal knowledge across traditions and culture-bound singularity [ 9 ].…”

“…Scholars have made abundant research on equivalent translation in law. Vîlceanu Titela and Tanciu Maria Georgiana Stoenică study on linguistic and cultural mediation in legal translation [ 19 ]; Fernando Prieto Ramos gives an an empirical cross-genre study on why terminology is a difficulty in international legal document translation [ 20 ], and further researches on translating legal terminology and phraseology between inter-systemic incongruity and multilingual harmonization [ 7 ]; De Laforcade Agata analyzes linguistics difficulties in harmonisation of European Union Law under the example of Directives on Procedural Guaranties in Criminal Matters [ 21 ]; Zhang Falian builds the ethical theory of legal translation technology [ 22 ] and calls on the cultural confidence in the C-E translation of Chinese Civil Code to accurately contribute to transferring and publicizing the legal culture [ 23 ]; Zhao and Xue explore conceptual transplantation and equivalent interpretation in legal translation with terms of Chinese Civil Code [ 17 ]; Qu analyzes the principles of Chinese legislative text translation based on the English version of Chinese Civil Code [ 24 ] and puts forward the principle of equal authenticity different from the principle of equivalence [ 25 ]; Wu explores translation norms and strategies in legal terms in light of digital humanities [ 26 ]. Other scholars also pay attention to translation practice under EU legal terminology database [ 27 , 28 ] and the properness of translation community [ 29 ].…”