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Highlighting Readability Issues by the Content Analysis of a Legal Text, for Translation Purposes. Case Study

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  • Alina Buzarna-Tihenea (Gălbează)

    (“Ovidius†University of Constanta)

  • Lavinia Nadrag

    (“Ovidius†University of Constanta)

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In a globalized world, linguistic harmonization leads to complex translation issues. Globalization contributed to the intricacy of the economic, social and political background, and triggered urgent requirements regarding the harmonization of legislation, which, in turn, entailed the necessity to tackle legal terminology and terminological differences. In the first part of the paper, we have briefly presented some features of the technical language and several issues caused by its intricacy. The second part of the work analyzes a specialized text in terms of lexical density, dealing with aspects such as text statistics, frequency and top words, frequency of word structures, as our main purpose has been to contribute to an enhanced understanding of specialized texts. Both jurists and translators should approach legal concepts carefully when transposing them into the target-language, in order to avoid misunderstandings. Moreover, multicultural knowledge and flexibility are only some of the requirements of a faithful legal translation.

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  • Alina Buzarna-Tihenea (Gălbează) & Lavinia Nadrag, 2021. "Highlighting Readability Issues by the Content Analysis of a Legal Text, for Translation Purposes. Case Study," Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series, Ovidius University of Constantza, Faculty of Economic Sciences, vol. 0(1), pages 207-214, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:ovi:oviste:v:xxi:y:2021:i:1:p:207-214
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    Keywords

    English legal language; translation; specialized terminology; readability; lexical density;
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    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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