法律英语与翻译专业法学硕士详解.ppt

法律英语与翻译Legal English and Legal Translation What is legal English? Descriptive vs. prescriptive. Also ‘hybrid’ forms of legal language Communication between lawyer and client, or between two lawyers The language used in the courtroom (interrogation of witnesses, summing up by judges etc.) Law reports in newspapers, academic textbooks on legal matters Language of legal documents – extremely formal, difficult for the non-expert to read. The history of Legal English I Old English: Anglo-Saxon mercenaries( 450 A.D., incept of legal English) bequeath, goods, guilt, land, manslaughter, murder, righ