Aspects of Legal Language Understanding and Translation: A Discussion

Dorrit Faber; Mette Hjort-Pedersen

Aspects of Legal Language Understanding and Translation: A Discussion

Dorrit Faber, Mette Hjort-Pedersen

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This paper represents a pilot study aiming to describe and discuss some of the stumbling blocks experienced by Danish trainee translators in the process of understanding and ultimately translating legal texts between Danish and English.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 14th European Symposium on LSP
Editors	Khurshid Ahmad, Margaret Rogers, Gunilla Anderman, David Cheng, Bassey Antia
Number of pages	8
Place of Publication	Guildford
Publisher	University of Surrey
Publication date	2004
Pages	330-337
Chapter	4.2.2
ISBN (Print)	1844690075
Publication status	Published - 2004
Event	The 14th European Symposium on Langauge for Special Purposes (LSP 2003) : Communication, Culture, Knowledge. University of Surrey - Surrey, United Kingdom Duration: 18 Aug 2003 → 22 Aug 2003 Conference number: 14

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Conference	The 14th European Symposium on Langauge for Special Purposes (LSP 2003) : Communication, Culture, Knowledge. University of Surrey
Number	14
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Surrey
Period	18/08/2003 → 22/08/2003

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Faber, D & Hjort-Pedersen, M 2004, Aspects of Legal Language Understanding and Translation: A Discussion. in K Ahmad, M Rogers, G Anderman, D Cheng & B Antia (eds), Proceedings of the 14th European Symposium on LSP. University of Surrey, Guildford, pp. 330-337, The 14th European Symposium on Langauge for Special Purposes (LSP 2003) : Communication, Culture, Knowledge. University of Surrey, Surrey, United Kingdom, 18/08/2003. <http://www.computing.surrey.ac.uk/lsp2003/LSP%20PROCEEDINGS.pdf>

Aspects of Legal Language Understanding and Translation: A Discussion. / Faber, Dorrit; Hjort-Pedersen, Mette.
Proceedings of the 14th European Symposium on LSP. ed. / Khurshid Ahmad; Margaret Rogers; Gunilla Anderman; David Cheng; Bassey Antia. Guildford: University of Surrey, 2004. p. 330-337.

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