Description: This collection investigates the latest advances in the field of legal translation and provides an invaluable reference volume for all academics and practitioners in the field. The authors offer philosophical, rhetorical, terminological and lexicographical perspectives and explore a range of topics from both theoretical and practical positions. Multiple and pluralistic viewpoints are also offered in the analysis of legal translation among different jurisdictions such as China, the EU and Japan.
Review Quotes: 'This is truly a handbook, covering both theoretical issues concerning translation and the translation of legal documents in particular, and practical matters that emerge from specific tasks of translating legal discourse to and from a number of languages - from the European community, Asia and South America. A must for practitioners and others interested in the field.' Dennis Kurzon, University of Haifa, Israel 'This Handbook provides legal and linguistic scholars as well as legal translators with a deeper understanding of the complexity of legal translation processes, while investigating issues in legal translatability and equivalence. This book will constitute an inestimable contribution for practitioners and theoreticians of legal translation who will benefit from the great expertise of all the authors in order to advance their art and science and possibly establish a more balanced dialogue between legal and linguistic cultures.' Jean-Claude Gémar, Université de Montréal, Canada 'Covering a broad spectrum of topics, the Handbook of Legal Translation provides innovative insights into the theory and practice of legal translation at national, supranational and international levels. Written by a global authorship, the contributions are recommended reading for academics, students and practitioners interested in the dynamics of legal translation.' Susan Å arÄevi, author of New Approach to Legal Translation 'Writing with intensity and persuasiveness, scholars contributing to this thought-provoking Handbook have opened new doors into our thinking about legal translatability by expanding translation research into the global dimensions of law and legal pluralism. A rich set of analytically and methodologically important tools makes this Handbook, even more productively, a re-conceptualization of legal translation for the 21st century.' Girolamo Tessuto, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy 'In today's world of multilingual legal