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Publication details [#26349]
Biel, Łucja. 2014. Lost in the Eurofog: the textual fit of translated law. Bern: Peter Lang. 347 pp.
Publication type
Monograph
Publication language
English
Source language
Main ISBN
9783631646267
Abstract
The book is an investigation into the nature of EU legal translation and its impact on national legal languages. It attempts to characterise EU Polish, a language of supranational law and a hybrid variant of legal Polish emerging via translation. The book applies Chesterman’s concept of textual fit, that is how translations differ from non-translations, to demonstrate empirically on large corpora how the Polish eurolect departs from the conventions of legal and general Polish both at the macrostructural and the microstructural level. The findings are juxtaposed with the pre-accession version of Polish law to track the «Europeanisation» of legal Polish – recent changes brought about by the unprecedented inflow of EU translations.
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