Title: Iachronic Development of Legal English and its Translation Principles
Abstract: The language features of the common law system characterized by the case law have been shaped in the long process of historical development.The combined impact of Latin,French and Anglo-Saxon on legal English makes it a very professional language with unique style.Although legal English has a tendency to be plain,it is a variety of English featuring much specialization and professionalism.This paper elaborates the language features of legal English by examining its diachronic development,namely,prescriptiveness,objectiveness,specialty and depersonalization.Due to these special language features,the translation of legal English should follow the principles of faithfulness,accuracy,uniformity and conciseness.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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