Das multilinguale fachsprachliche Korpus TK-NHH – Eine korpusbasierte Fallstudie über die explicitation hypothesis anhand von ins Deutsche und Englische übersetzten Rechtstexten

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  • Ingrid Simonnæs Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration Department of Professional and Intercultural Communication Helleveien 30 N-5045 Bergen

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https://doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v24i46.97373

Abstract

The present study is a case study about the explicitation hypothesis in legal translations into German and English by means of a corpus-based approach and will present preliminary findings. After the introduction, I first describe the National Translator Accreditation Exam (statsautorisert translatøreksamen) in Norway from which the texts for the TK-NHH translation corpus are chosen. Next I describe the aim of the case study which is to investigate the explicitation hypothesis by means of the TK-NHH translation corpus. In the method section, I discuss briefly the influence and applicability of corpus linguistics on translation studies. Finally, in the case study, I investigate both German and English legal translations in the TK-NHH translation corpus with regard to one specific feature that is claimed to be universal: explicitation. In this case study, I have chosen the explicitation of proper names of culture-specific legal institutions (e.g. courts). The results in both languages show a variety of explicitation together with no explicitation and thus seem to substantiate earlier findings, but now with regard to translation solutions from Norwegian.

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2011-10-24

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Simonnæs, I. (2011). Das multilinguale fachsprachliche Korpus TK-NHH – Eine korpusbasierte Fallstudie über die explicitation hypothesis anhand von ins Deutsche und Englische übersetzten Rechtstexten. HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business, 24(46), 103–117. https://doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v24i46.97373

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No. 46 (2011)

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