Human Rights in Translation: Legal Concepts in Different Languages - Softcover

Garre, Marianne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8716134354 ISBN 13: 9788716134356

Publisher: Copenhagen Business School Press, 1999

Synopsis

Winner of the Vinay-Darbelnet Award 2000 for the best monograph on translation studies (The Canadian Association for Translation Studies)

Translating human rights texts is not a simple task. It requires excellent tools as well as insight into the world of human rights if a translator is to provide applicable and understandable human rights translations. Even though analyses of translations and translation problems may take a very narrow perspective and focus on concrete problems and details of translation, it is crucial for practising translators to adopt a wide perspective - the hermeneutic truth of looking at the part in the whole, and the whole in the part is a very accurate description of what translation involves.

In this book, the author presents and analyzes some of these parts. Based on a specific analysis as well as a broad perspective on human rights translation, she suggests a cognitive approach to human rights translation which takes into consideration aspects of law, linguistics, translation, and language policy. With the tools and knowledge from these fields, legal translators will be in a much better position to translate successfully.

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"...for the benefit of scholars, practitioners and not least for those individuals whose rights have been violated." -- Morten Kjærum, Director, The Danish Center for Human Rights

Synopsis

Translating human rights texts is not a simple task. It requires excellent tools as well as insight into the world of human rights if a translator is to provide applicable and understandable human rights translations. Even though analyses of translations and translation problems may take a very narrow perspective and focus on concrete problems and details of translation, it is crucial for practising translators to adopt a wide perspective - the hermeneutic truth of looking at the part in the whole, and the whole in the part is a very accurate description of what translation involves. In this book, the author presents and analyzes some of these parts. Based on a specific analysis as well as a broad perspective on human rights translation, she suggests a cognitive approach to human rights translation which takes into consideration aspects of law, linguistics, translation, and language policy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Copenhagen Business School Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8716134354
• ISBN 13: 9788716134356
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 233