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Vol. 20:1 (2008) ► pp.103–114

Translating into a new LSP

The translation of laws in the Republic of Cyprus

| Epirus Institute of Technology, Greece

This paper deals with the translation of the English-language Common Law legislation of the Republic of Cyprus into Greek. The legislation introduced to Cyprus in 1935 was common law codified by the British for use in the colonies. The aim of the paper is threefold: (a) to research the historical background and highlight the communicative implications for a community where the language of the law is not the mother tongue of the people, (b) to reconstruct the methods the translators applied when they translated the Law of Civil Wrongs from English into Greek within the common law framework of the Republic of Cyprus, and (c) to establish how the actual process of translation affected the target LSP.

Keywords: translation of laws, LSP, language of the law, Republic of Cyprus, common law, civil law, Greek, English
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • 1.Historical overview
  • 2.Interlingual legal communication in Cyprus
  • 3.The process of translating laws in the Republic of Cyprus
  • 4.The translation of the Law of Civil Wrongs
  • 5.Translating laws: A digitalized task?
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 26 May 2008
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