From the domestic to the supranational

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Properties of legal terminology
5. Frame approach to legal terminology 16
6. Definitions in law across legal cultures and jurisdictions 37
7. Ordinary meaning in common law legal interpretation 72
8. Variation of legal terms in monolingual and multilingual contexts 90
9. The importance of being patterned 124
10. Part II. National legal terminology in translation
11. Legal terms that travel 152
12. Terminological features of the Chinese legal language 173
13. Bilingual legal terminology in Hong Kong 191
14. How equivalent is equivalence in Arabic‑English legal translation? 206
15. On the interaction between legal and religious concepts 224
16. Part III. Legal terminology in multilingual organizations
17. Legal terminology of the European Union 244
18. Terminological variation and conceptual divergence in EU Law 271
19. Visualizing EU law through meta-concepts and legal formants 289
20. Legal terms, concepts and definitions in the transposition of EU law 310
21. From the domestic to the supranational 327
22. Terminology management and terminology quality assurance in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation 351
23. Measuring the quality of legal terminological decisions in institutional translation 375
24. EU phraseological verbal patterns in the PETIMOD 2.0 corpus 397
25. Part IV. Terminological tools and resources
26. Legal lexicography and legal information tools 432
27. Multilingual legal terminology databases 458
28. Machine translation and legal terminology 485
29. Automatic term recognition and legal language 511
30. The role of Semantic Web technologies in legal terminology 542
31. Part V. Legal terminology in training contexts
32. Dealing with legal terminology in court interpreting 570
33. Legal translator terminology training 594
34. Index 619