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International Journal for Legal Communication

Comparative Legilinguistics

The paper aims to analyse and compare the interpretative function of legislative history in the judicial activity of the European Court of Justice and Polish courts.

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Instytut Prawa, Administracji i Zarządzania

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<article-title>Legislative History as an Interpretative Tool in Uni- and Multinlingual Legal Systems (Based on the Example of Poland and the UE)</article-title>

Legislative History as an Interpretative Tool in Uni- and Multinlingual Legal Systems (Based on the Example of Poland and the UE)

Most interpretational problems in law pertain to the meaning of words. However, in this paper I address problems caused in Polish courts by grammar (namely: syntax and inflexion) of legal provisions. One can distinguish five main sources of grammatical issues in judicial interpretation of law: syntax of a sentence (i.e. order of words), conjunctive words (i.e. <italic>i</italic>, <italic>lub</italic>), punctuation marks (i.e. comma, semicolon, dash), nominal grammatical categories (i.e. number, gender), verbal grammatical categories (i. e. aspect, tense, mood). Traditional Polish canons of interpretation offer no clues on how to deal with such issues, stating only that statutes should be construed in accordance with the rules of grammar. In fact, cases in which such interpretational issues occur, are decided in a highly incoherent manner. The courts tend to feel a tension between grammatical form of a provision and its purpose, function, or other extra-linguistic values. I think the main reason of such controversy is a very limited vision of grammar shared by the courts, stemmed from primary school rather than contemporary linguistic theories.

<article-title>Grammatical Issues in Judicial Interpretation – Does Legal Practice Needs Linguistic Theory? Based on Polish Courts’ Decisions</article-title>

Grammatical Issues in Judicial Interpretation – Does Legal Practice Needs Linguistic Theory? Based on Polish Courts’ Decisions

The article deals with basic requirements to the translation for specific purposes, namely legal translation. The problem posed here is defining object and theoretical basis of legal translation. The question of the necessity of information search as an integral part of translation strategy has been raised. Detailed analysis revealed that the requirements of professional translators include knowledge of lexical and grammatical peculiarities of both languages in legal sphere; deep understanding of the concepts employed by specialists in particular field and the specialist terms used to express these concepts and their relationships in the source and target languages. It is recommended that evaluation of the translation may be done on the following principles: communicative pragmatic norms of translation; equivalent norms of translation; absence of contextual, cultural, functional, lexico-grammatical mistakes.

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev

<article-title>Legal Discourse: Text Analysis and Translation Strategies</article-title>

Legal Discourse: Text Analysis and Translation Strategies

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The focus of this paper is centered on the translation of German and Polish court names. Based on a thorough analysis of the translation terms used in legal literature and dictionaries, the author concludes that the court names are often being translated in a way that makes it impossible for the reader to correctly identify the institution in question, thus undermining the comprehensibility of the target texts significantly.

Institut für Angewandte Linguistik und Translatologie

<article-title>Towards Comprehensibility in the Translation of German and Polish Court Names</article-title>

Towards Comprehensibility in the Translation of German and Polish Court Names

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