Handbook of Terminology

Volume 3. Legal Terminology

Editors

Łucja Biel | University of Warsaw

Hendrik J. Kockaert | KU Leuven

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As a core component of legal language used to draft, enforce and practice law, legal terms have fascinated lawyers, linguists, terminologists and other scholars for centuries. Third in the series, this Handbook offers a comprehensive compendium of the current state of knowledge on legal terminology. It is the first attempt to bring together perspectives from the domains of Terminology, Translation Studies, Linguistics, Law and Information Technology in a single place. This interdisciplinary endeavour comprises systematic reviews, case studies and research papers which overview key properties of legal terms and concepts, terminological tools and resources, training aspects, as well as translation in national contexts and multilingual organizations. The Handbook attests to the complex multifaceted nature of legal terminology and showcases its cultural, communicative, cognitive and social contexts in diverse legal systems. It is a rich resource for scholars, practitioners, trainers and students, presenting vibrant research and practice in this area.

[Handbook of Terminology, 3] 2023. vii, 622 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/hot.3

Table of Contents

Introduction: Legal terminology

Łucja Biel and Hendrik J. Kockaert | pp. 1–14

Part I. Properties of legal terminology

Frame approach to legal terminology: What may be gained from seeing terminology as manifestation of legal knowledge?

Jan Engberg | pp. 16–36

Definitions in law across legal cultures and jurisdictions

Anna Jopek-Bosiacka | pp. 37–71

Ordinary meaning in common law legal interpretation

Stephen Mouritsen | pp. 72–89

Variation of legal terms in monolingual and multilingual contexts: Types, distribution, attitudes and causes

Łucja Biel | pp. 90–123

The importance of being patterned: Old and new perspectives on legal phraseology

Gianluca Pontrandolfo | pp. 124–150

Part II. National legal terminology in translation

Legal terms that travel: Constraints to presenting national legal terminology to international audiences

Katia Peruzzo | pp. 152–172

Terminological features of the Chinese legal language

Deborah Cao | pp. 173–190

Bilingual legal terminology in Hong Kong: Past, present and future

Clara Ho-yan Chan and Edmund Cham | pp. 191–205

How equivalent is equivalence in Arabic‑English legal translation?

Ahmed Alaoui | pp. 206–223

On the interaction between legal and religious concepts

Lahousseine Id-Youss and Abied Alsulaiman | pp. 224–241

Part III. Legal terminology in multilingual organizations

Legal terminology of the European Union

Colin D. Robertson and Máirtín Mac Aodha | pp. 244–270

Terminological variation and conceptual divergence in EU Law

Martina Bajčić | pp. 271–288

Visualizing EU law through meta-concepts and legal formants

Elena Ioriatti | pp. 289–309

Legal terms, concepts and definitions in the transposition of EU law

Agnieszka Doczekalska | pp. 310–326

From the domestic to the supranational: The terminology of “expulsion” as used at the European Court of Human Rights

James Brannan | pp. 327–350

Terminology management and terminology quality assurance in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation

Karolina Stefaniak | pp. 351–374

Measuring the quality of legal terminological decisions in institutional translation: A comparative analysis of adequacy patterns in three settings

Fernando Prieto Ramos and Diego Guzmán | pp. 375–396

EU phraseological verbal patterns in the PETIMOD 2.0 corpus: A NER-enhanced approach

Gloria Corpas Pastor and Fernando Sánchez Rodas | pp. 397–430

Part IV. Terminological tools and resources

Legal lexicography and legal information tools

Sandro Nielsen | pp. 432–457

Multilingual legal terminology databases: Workflows and roles

Elena Chiocchetti, Vesna Lušicky and Tanja Wissik | pp. 458–484

Machine translation and legal terminology: Data-driven approaches to contextual accuracy

Jeffrey Killman | pp. 485–510

Automatic term recognition and legal language: A shorter path to the lexical profiling of legal texts?

María José Marín | pp. 511–541

The role of Semantic Web technologies in legal terminology

Patricia Martín-Chozas, Elena Montiel-Ponsoda and Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel | pp. 542–567

Part V. Legal terminology in training contexts

Dealing with legal terminology in court interpreting

Mariana Orozco-Jutorán | pp. 570–593

Legal translator terminology training: Unravelling the mysteries

Catherine Way | pp. 594–618

Index | pp. 619–623

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