法律语境及其对法律翻译的影响-外国语言学与应用语言学专业论文.docx

translation are only two translation strategies or principles. Other translation methods such as “domestication” and “foreignization” or “retrospective” and “prospective” shall be adopted according to different contextual environments. Thus, when it comes to legal translation, due to its unique contextual environment, different translation strategies shall be taken. This paper will focus on the corresponding translation strategies to the phenomena of “default of legal context” and “shift of legal cognitive context”. Statement of problems Existing studies in legal context lead scholars into a new field of contextual study which is nearly untouched and also demonstrate the necessity to reconsider specific translation strategies regarding the unique characteristics of legal context. However, with less than 20 years’ study of the history of legal context, we found that there is a lack of research in it compared with the study of context or the study of translation theories and methods. Even if we do have researchers working on this subject, the study range is rather small and the information is rather limited. It is quite difficult to find enough writing data or materials or persuasive theories to support my argument. Hence present study on legal context and its impact on translation strategies could be considered as a pioneering task. Purpose of the study The current study is conducted as an attempt to answer the following three problems: What are the unique characteristics of legal context and what influence does it have on the understanding of legal texts? How do the phenomena of “default of legal context” and “shift of legal cognitive context” take place? According to the above mentioned phenomena of legal context, what kind of translation strategies could translators apply in order to transform the whole meaning of the source language into the target language? Significance of the study The present study is expected to be beneficial and valuable for the research of