Legal Language, Legal Discourse: Variation and Beyond

This book is the first volume of the publication on Legal Language, Legal Discourse: Variation and Beyond , edited by Panagiotis G. Krimpas and Lelija Socanac. It contains ten chapters on legal language and/or discourse issues with particular focus on legal translation’s interlingual, intersystemic and/or intersemiotic aspects. Legal translation is undoubtedly the most demanding field of translation in both theory and practice, and modern juritranslatology utilises methods and insights from a wide range of other fields, a fact reflected in the variety of topics covered in this book, ranging from quantitative and qualitative corpus-based methods, legal comparison, contrastive and historical-terminological approaches, comparative conceptual analysis, comparative componential analysis and discourse analysis to traditional descriptive perspectives, discussed through the lens of contemporary approaches and research methods. The book will be useful primarily for academics, linguists, legal translators and lawyers, and it can also provide additional reading for students of law, legal linguistics and/or legal translation.