Octubre - Jueves 14, Viernes 15 y Sábado 16

Mendoza, Provincia de Mendoza

LENGUA Y TRADUCCIÓN JURÍDICA, Trad. Públ. y Abogado Ricardo Chiesa

              Lexical Pitfalls and Collocational Variation in Legal Texts

ü       Content and focus:

The purpose of this workshop is to focus on the denotative, connotative and collocational meaning of a number of legal terms commonly used in different areas of the law, which pose translation problems for one or more of the following reasons:

§                                      they are not univocal but polysemous

§                                       they are used to signify both genus and species

§                                      they are total or partial false cognates of their apparent TL equivalent

§                                      they reveal the existence of lexical gaps in the TL

§               they have a broader or narrower range of meaning than their traditionally accepted equivalents

§                                      they have led to dictionary-fossilized translation errors

§                                      they vary in meaning according to collocation

§                                      they are Latin terms that work in one language but not in the other

 ü       Participants will be encouraged to pinpoint the difference between selected terms, ascertain the meaning of specific lexical items in self-sufficient contexts, and provide accurate translations of the texts given. Language exercises include multiple choice, error analysis and rephrasing.

Many of the terms selected for discussion will be used as a springboard for an expanded analysis of legal concepts under the Argentine and U.S. systems that are often oversimplified or misunderstood, like "concurso", "sustanciación", "lien", "waiver", and a host of others.