TEACHING ENGLISH-UKRAINIAN LEGAL TRANSLATION AS A KIND OF SPECIALIZED TRANSLATION
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For today’s Ukraine it is important to develop legal linguistics and legal translation. The present-day political situation and striving of the country to become an EU member-state demands coordinating of existing rights and duties of people with the ones accepted in the EU. Provision of a high-quality translation at all level of legal communication becomes essential. Hence, there is the need for law students, students studying international relations and students who are future translators to master the legal language – the language of law. The topicality of the research is caused by the fact that legal translation is a new branch developing in Ukraine which is still working on theoretical and practical foundations of law linguistics and translation and needs a deeper understanding of mechanics of legal translation. The aim of this study is to look through translation transformations used in translation of legal terminology within an English-Ukrainian/Ukrainian-English pair of languages. The paper also offers a model of practical exercises for teaching legal translation at a university level. The results of the work show that a more spread kind of legal translation in Ukraine is written limited to the translation of legal documents of various kinds. The peculiarities of both written legal translation and oral legal translation are defined by differences in legal vocabulary and syntactic structures of English and Ukrainian. Special attention should be paid to terminological collocability, law realities, law terms of Latin and French origin.
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