<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper presents findings gathered in an exploratory, descriptive, corpus-based analysis of a parallel corpus composed of English corporate documents and their translations into Polish with regard to the frequency-related, binary strategy distribution pattern. In general, the author posits a distinctiveness of interlingual communication in the domain of law, as delineated by the institutional and disciplinary framework. The material extracted from the corpus and studied for its generic features (author, forthcoming-a) points to the hermetic character of corporate written communication in English. The thesis to be verified is whether there are any tendencies in the distribution of the translation strategies in the corpus texts. The research question was operationalised via coding the corpus extracts according to the binary strategy division scheme. Further, the data have been discussed in reference to the sociocultural background of the communicative situation covered under the analysis in order to account for the translators’ motivation.</p></abstract>

The paper presents findings gathered in an exploratory, descriptive, corpus-based analysis of a parallel corpus composed of English corporate documents and their translations into Polish with regard to the frequency-related, binary strategy distribution pattern. In general, the author posits a distinctiveness of interlingual communication in the domain of law, as delineated by the institutional and disciplinary framework. The material extracted from the corpus and studied for its generic features (author, forthcoming-a) points to the hermetic character of corporate written communication in English. The thesis to be verified is whether there are any tendencies in the distribution of the translation strategies in the corpus texts. The research question was operationalised via coding the corpus extracts according to the binary strategy division scheme. Further, the data have been discussed in reference to the sociocultural background of the communicative situation covered under the analysis in order to account for the translators’ motivation.

Field-specific Conventions in the Translation of Commercial Law Documentation for Court Proceedings

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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The paper presents findings gathered in an exploratory, descriptive, corpus-based analysis of a parallel corpus composed of English corporate documents and...

Field-specific Conventions in the Translation of Commercial Law Documentation for Court Proceedings

Published Online: Oct 18, 2019

Page range: 221 - 243

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2019-0025

Keywords
interlingual communication, legal translation, commercial law, court setting, frequency distribution, translation strategy, pragmatic motivation, cultural/conceptual contiguity

© 2019 Edyta Więcławska, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Field-specific Conventions in the Translation of Commercial Law Documentation for Court Proceedings

Published Online: Oct 18, 2019

Page range: 221 - 243

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2019-0025

Keywordsinterlingual communication, legal translation, commercial law, court setting, frequency distribution, translation strategy, pragmatic motivation, cultural/conceptual contiguity

© 2019 Edyta Więcławska, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
interlingual communication, legal translation, commercial law, court setting, frequency distribution, translation strategy, pragmatic motivation, cultural/conceptual contiguity