法律术语翻译中的词汇空缺——关联理论的视角.pdfVIP

Finally I must thank other authors of papers and books, strongly or weakly relevant to this study, which I read and benefited and quoted from for this thesis. ii Abstract It is obvious that each legal discourse has its own specificity with its cultural, political, social and historical events, which deeply influenced and still influence the legal language. Indeed, statutes and cases are mainly connected with ethical, philosophical, cultural and even religious reflections which are specific to each culture, to each nation; and so which seem difficult to express and translate faithfully in the TT. Furthermore, legal translation is all the more complex as the SL and TL are never in the same space and time, or under the same circumstances. Legal terms or terms of art, usually refer to objects, relationships, acts, and procedures that are peculiar to a particular national legal system. As a product of different institutions, history, culture, and sometimes socio-economic principles, each legal system has its own legal reality and thus its own conceptual system and even knowledge structure. In legal translation, a problem arises from the very beginning if the translator aims at finding the exact terminological equivalent. It is mainly due to the inherent incongruency of legal terms (i.e. legal lexical gaps) between legal systems. The legal terminologies of different legal systems are, for the most part, conceptually incongruent. And precision is one of the most main pursuits of legal language. The attribution of an improper equivalent to a legal term can be the cause of ambiguities, confus