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New Insights into the Semantics of Legal Concepts and the Legal Dictionary
Martina Bajčić
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 17] 2017
► pp. 107–135

Chapter 6
EU legal translation and challenges for the dictionary

Incorporating legal translation into dictionary making

Article outline
  • 6.1Introduction
  • 6.2Legal translation
    • 6.2.1Legal texts
    • 6.2.2Equivalence: A mission impossible
    • 6.2.3Conceptual analysis as the comparative-law approach to legal translation
      • 6.2.3.1The illusion of comparing legal concepts
  • 6.3Some challenges posed by legal translation to the legal dictionary
    • 6.3.1Analysis of lexicographic treatment of legal terms
      • 6.3.1.2A glance at multilingual databases of EU law
    • 6.3.2Coping with different types of equivalence in a legal dictionary
      • 6.3.2.1What to do in case of non-equivalence
  • 6.4Choosing the right approach to legal translation in the EU context
    • 6.4.1Using functional equivalents when translating EU legal concepts
  • 6.5Practical guidelines for legal translators working in the EU
  • 6.6Summary
  • Notes