Views on the Complexity of Legal Translation

Abstract

Legal translation has acquired ever increasing importance within translation studies. The paper focuses on the complexity of legal translations on account of a series of characteristics such as: lack of equivalent terminology, cultural differences, legal style conventions, etc. It turns out that legal translation is a special type that involves mediating between different languages and different cultures and legal systems.

Keywords

• jurilinguist
• language
• law
• legal translation
• translation process