Translating Lexical Legal Terms Between English and Arabic

El-Farahaty, Hanem

doi:10.1007/s11196-016-9460-2

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“…It does not require any expertise to read and understand news. In contrast, the legal text uses jargon (Howe & Wogalter, 1995, p. 430), and legal translation is difficult (El-Farahaty, 2016). For the poetic text, the language demonstrates freedom in lexical and syntactical deviations (Leech, 1969, p. 18).…”

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A Comparative Study on the Effort of Human Translation and Post-Editing in Relation to Text Types: An Eye-Tracking and Key-Logging Experiment

2023

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With the increasing utilization of Machine Translation, it is worth exploring in what areas it actually reduces translators’ effort. This study focuses on the English-Chinese language pair and compares the effort of human translation (HT) and that of post-editing (PE) in relation to text types, covering advertising, news, legal, and literary texts, via an eye-tracking and key-logging experiment and a follow-up questionnaire survey. It refers to Krings’ framework and explores effort in terms of temporal, cognitive, and technical dimensions. Data were obtained from 33 Chinese student translators, and data analyses lead to the following conclusions. First, PE involves less effort than HT, and PE increases productivity and improves translation quality. Second, the tendency that PE involves less effort is seen in the advertising, news, and literary text types, but the measures of effort show variation for the legal text. Third, the objective measures, including Seconds per Target Word, Edits per Target Word, Pause Count per Target Word, Pause Duration per Target Word, Source Fixation Duration per Source Word, and Source Fixation Count per Source Word, are reliable and well correlated with subjective measures.

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2023

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“…The field of law is considered to be one of the most challenging fields for translators, especially when the SL and the TL have distinct linguistic systems. According to El-Farahaty (2016), "The asymmetry between English and Arabic poses many difficulties for legal translators, be they linguistic-based, culture-specific or system-based" (p. 473). She explained that problematic issues arise in legal translation due to the extremely diverse legal systems between English and Arabic, which, indeed, comprise different cultures and linguistic systems.…”

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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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Translating Legal Language and Comparative Law

Husa

2016

Int J Semiot Law

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Translating Lexical Legal Terms Between English and Arabic

Cited by 11 publications

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A Comparative Study on the Effort of Human Translation and Post-Editing in Relation to Text Types: An Eye-Tracking and Key-Logging Experiment

A Comparative Study on the Effort of Human Translation and Post-Editing in Relation to Text Types: An Eye-Tracking and Key-Logging Experiment

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

Translating Legal Language and Comparative Law

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