Subject index

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editor’s preface to translation and the law 1
4. Section 1: Translation and the language of the law
5. Indeterminacy, translation and the law 13
6. Understood by all concerned? Anglo/Aboriginal legal translation 37
7. Section 2: Responding to change and to difference
8. Riding the waves of fortune 67
9. Where the devil meets his gradnmother 85
10. Legal interpreting on trial 93
11. Language in evidence 115
12. The use of translators and interpreters in cases requiring forensic speaker identification 131
13. Translating japanese legal documents into English 145
14. Culture clash 179
15. Section 3. Professional issues, professional practice
16. On the horns of a dilemma 201
17. textual density and the judiciaary interpreter’s performance 219
18. A new wind of quality fro Europe 233
19. The legal translator as information broker 247
20. Section 4: Persons, laws and the presence of the translator
21. Pragmatism, precept and passions 263
22. Las Siete partidas in America 281
23. Just interpreting 293
24. Contributors 317
25. ATA corporate members (1995) 321
26. ATA institutional members (1995) 329
27. Americcan translators Association officers and board of directors, 1995 recipients of the Alexander Gode Medal 331
28. Subject index 333