The Role of Generic Competence and Professional Expertise in Legal Translation. The Case of English and Polish Probate Documents

• Authors: Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper seeks to demonstrate how the concept of generic competence (primarily intended for monolingual specialized communication) could be extended to address important issues in translating legal texts. First, generic competence is discussed against the backdrop of the related concept of translation competence. Then, a case study is presented which examines a closely related set of documents employed by the professional community of lawyers (represented by an English solicitor and Polish advocate) engaged in the specialist domain of probate law (legal process related to the estate of a deceased person). It is argued that both generic competence and professional expertise should be included in the range of competencies required for the translator of legal texts.

Keywords

EN

genre; generic competence; professional expertise; legal translation; professional practice

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 51-67

Dates

published

2016-06-01

online

2016-07-14

Contributors

author

Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski

• University of Łódź, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/slgr-2016-0015