23.1409, Calls: Forensic Ling, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/ Linguistica Antverpiensia New Series (Jrnl)

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Subject: 23.1409, Calls: Forensic Ling, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/ Linguistica Antverpiensia New Series (Jrnl)

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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:30:11
From: Lucja Biel [anglb at ug.edu.pl]
Subject: Linguistica Antverpiensia New Series

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Full Title: Linguistica Antverpiensia New Series 

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2012 

Research models and methods in legal translation

Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series (12/2013) -Themes in Translation 
Studies

Guest editors: Łucja Biel (University of Gdańsk, Poland) & Jan Engberg 
(Aarhus University, Denmark)

Full call for papers - see http://www.lans-tts.be/docs/LANS-TTS12-Legal-
Translation-Call4Papers.pdf

This special issue of LANS TTS intends to track recent developments in 
legal translation studies triggered by new methodologies and to test the 
explanatory power and potential of such approaches to uncover the nature of 
legal translation. 

One such promising new approach is represented by corpus-based 
methodologies and their combination with other methods, for example, critical 
discourse analysis. Corpora have been intensely applied in linguistics as an 
empirical and data-driven approach which allows for reduced speculation and 
offers the potential to verify hypotheses systematically on large collections of 
texts. Corpus-based methodologies have changed the way we handle data 
but, above all, have shifted attention from the study of words to the study of 
patterns, emphasizing that language use is highly patterned and that such 
patterns are cognitively motivated (Stubbs, 2004). Legal language, which is 
notorious for its formulaicity, standardization, petrification and rituals, seems 
to be well suited for this type of analysis. Corpus-based methodologies have 
also been embraced by Translation Studies, although relatively little research 
involves legal translation. 

Equally important is the systematic description of actual translation practice, 
translation process and professional aspects of legal translation. This 
trajectory covers process studies of legal translation, involving Think-Aloud 
Protocols (TAPs), keystroke logging or eye-tracking software. 

Another trajectory of research is legal translation in multilingual and 
institutionalized settings, which, as emphasized in the literature, is a rare 
object of study within Translation Studies. 

These are just a few topics which may be addressed. We invite proposals 
that investigate patterns and processes of legal translation from a new angle 
and contribute to mapping current developments and projecting future 
trajectories of research into legal translation.

We invite proposals dealing with one or more of the following topics:

1. Corpus-based studies of legal translation: potential and limitations, 
translation universals, parallel corpus studies on strategies and techniques, 
etc.
2. Differences between legal translation and comparative law.
3. Legal translation and discourse analysis.
4. Legal translation as knowledge mediation.
5. Theory of legal translation in multilingual settings.
6. Semantics of legal concepts and translation.
7. Process studies of legal translation.
8. Workplace studies of legal translation.
9. Intertextuality and interdiscursivity in legal translation.
10. Legal term/phraseme distinction; multi-word terms, phraseology and 
recurrent patterns in translation.
11. Emergence of new globalizing genres through translation.
12. Any other innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to legal translation.

Practical information and deadlines:

Proposals: Abstracts of approximately 500 words, including some relevant 
bibliography, should be submitted by 1 June 2012. Please send your 
proposals to: Łucja Biel anglb at ug.edu.pl.

Acceptance of proposals: 1 July 2012
Submission of articles: 1 February 2013
Acceptance of articles: 30 April 2013 
Publication: November-December 2013

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