As a participant in some of the exponential growth of research into legal translation and interpreting (LTI) since the 1970s, I have experienced the evolution described succinctly by Prieto Ramos (2014, 268–271) as the initial stage (from late 1970), the catalytic stage (from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s), and the current period of consolidation and expansion. In the light of these developments, Research Methods in Legal Translation and Interpreting is a much-needed compendium offering a comprehensive collection of contributions which present examples of the vast range of theoretical approaches and the methodological complexity now involved in avant-garde LTI research.

References

Angelelli, Claudia V., and Brian James Baer

eds. 2016 Researching Translation and Interpreting. Abingdon: Routledge.

Krogsgaard Vesterager, Anja

2017 “Explicitation in Legal Translation: A Study of Spanish-into-Danish Translation of Judgments.” JoSTrans 27: 104–123.

Mikkelson, Holly

1995 “On the Horns of a Dilemma: Accuracy vs. Brevity in the Use of Legal Terms by Court Interpreters.” In Translation and the Law, ATA Scholarly Monograph Series, vol. 8, edited by Marshall Morris, 201–218. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Monzó Nebot, Esther

2002 “Las traducciones profesionales en la formación de traductores jurídicos: enseña socializando [Professional translations in legal translator training].” In Actas del I Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Ibérica de Estudios de Traducción e Interpretación, vol. 2 [Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Iberian Society of Translation and Interpreting Studies], edited by Ricardo Muñoz Martín, 441–453. Granada: Universidad de Granada.

Prieto Ramos, Fernando

2014 “Legal Translation Studies as Interdiscipline: Scope and Evolution.” Meta 59 (2): 260–277.

Saldanha, Gabriela and Sharon O’Brien

2014 Research Methodologies in Translation Studies. Abingdon: Routledge.