LEGAL TRANSLATION COMPETENCE IN THE LIGHT OF TRANSLATIONAL HERMENEUTICS

• Authors: Beata Piecychna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper is concerned with the concept of translation competence as seen from the perspective of translational hermeneutics. The first part of the article provides a short survey of how translation competence and its develop- ment has been described so far, with a particular focus on the legal translator’s skills and abilities. The second part of the paper briefly presents the notion of translational hermeneutics together with its main concepts. The aim of this part of the article is also to show similarities between the translation phenomenon and hermeneutical studies. Finally, building on Stolze’s (2011) hermeneutical model of translation, the last part of the paper presents the main features of a hermeneutical model of legal translation competence.

Keywords

EN

translation competence; legal translation competence; translational hermeneutics; legal translation

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 34
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 141-159

Dates

published

2013-10-01

online

2013-12-31

Contributors

author

Beata Piecychna

• University of Bialystok

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/slgr-2013-0027