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Author:   Professor Fernando Prieto Ramos (The University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.354kg
ISBN:  

9781350126657

ISBN 10:   1350126659
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   22 August 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Institutional Translation: Surveying the Landscape at International Organizations (Fernando Prieto Ramos, University of Geneva, Switzerland) Part I: Contemporary Issues and Methods 1. Challenges to Legal Translators in Institutional Settings (Susan Sarcevic, University of Rijeka, Croatia) 2. Corpora in Institutional Legal Translation: Small Steps and the Big Picture (Lucja Biel, University of Warsaw, Poland) 3. Comparative Law and Legal Translation as Partners in Knowledge Communication: Frames as a Descriptive Instrument (Jan Engberg, University of Aarhus, Denmark) Part II: Translation Quality in Law- and Policy-Making and Implementation 4. Towards a More Structured Approach to Quality Assurance: DGT's Quality Journey (Ingemar Strandvik, European Commission) 5. The Skills Required to Achieve Quality in Institutional Translation: The Views of EU and UN Revisers (Anne Lafeber, United Nations) 6. Legal Terminology Consistency and Adequacy as Quality Indicators in Institutional Translation: A Mixed-Method Comparative Study (Fernando Prieto Ramos and Diego Guzman, University of Geneva, Switzerland) 7. Comparing Multilingual Practices in the EU and the Canadian Legal Systems: The Case of Terminological Choices in Legislative Drafting (Agnieszka Doczekalska, Kozminski Law School, Poland) 8. Legal-Linguistic Profiling as Translation Aid: The Example of an EU Agency (Colin Robertson, Council of the EU) 9. Translating Hybrid Legal Texts for Science and Technology Institutions: The Case of CERN (Mathilde Fontanet, University of Geneva, Switzerland) Part III: Translation and Multilingual Case-Law 10. The Impact of Multilingualism on the Judgments of the EU Court of Justice (Susan Wright, Court of Justice of the EU) 11. A Corpus Investigation of Translation-Generated Diversity in EU Case-Law (Aleksandar Trklja, University of Birmingham, UK) 12. Specificities of Translation at the European Court of Human Rights: Policy and Practice (James Brannan, European Court of Human Rights) 13.Comparative Interpretation of Multilingual Law in International Courts: Patterns and Implications for Translation (Fernando Prieto Ramos and Lucie Pacho Aljanati, University of Geneva, Switzerland)

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A valuable and timely contribution to this specialized field … it helps deepen our understanding of institutional legal translation practice and is a must-read or translators and translation managers working at multilingual institutions, as well as researchers. * Babel *

A valuable and timely contribution to this specialized field ... it helps deepen our understanding of institutional legal translation practice and is a must-read or translators and translation managers working at multilingual institutions, as well as researchers. * Babel *

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Fernando Prieto Ramos is Full Professor of Translation and Director of the Centre for Legal and Institutional Translation Studies (Transius), Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, University of Geneva, Switzerland

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