法律文化差異影響下的英漢法律術(shù)語翻譯策略.pdf

1、 Abstract The special social function of law enables legal language to shape legal terms. Legal terms translation is, the same as other English for specific purposes, a type of bilingual research, which touches upon two

2、aspects, one is language, and the other is culture. Legal cultural differences comprise the differences between social systems, legal systems, legal cultural traditions, cultural psychology and legal thought etc. To some

3、 extent, legal culture focuses on legal terms. Legal terms both in English and Chinese have specific legal meanings. In order to abide by the formality and gravity of legal language and to achieve the effect of equivale

4、nce, translators are supposed to search for the equivalent terms or near equivalent terms translated from the source text into the target text. However the existence of legal cultural differences leads to the phenomenon

5、of non-equivalences. If translators comprehend legal terms merely literally from the literal meaning of words but ignoring the legal cultural differences would lead to ambiguity or misconstruction. Therefore, precision o

6、f legal terms translation is concerned with the quality of all types of legal documents, even the exercise of power and personal interests of civilians, and it is of vital importance. This thesis systematically analyzes

7、the cultural differences between the Chinese legal system and common law system, summarizes the influence of legal cultural differences upon translators in the process of E-C legal terms translation, and illustrates main

8、 problems that translators encounter with. With the reference of equivalence theory proposed by Susan Sarcevic, the author, by means of examples of legal terms translation, analyzes the translation strategies of near equ

9、ivalence and partial equivalence in legal terms translation on the basis of legal cultural differences. The highlight is that the author concludes three translation strategies in the cases of non-equivalence to further s