Revisiting judgment translation in Hong Kong

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4898751
AutoresLe Cheng (0000-0002-4423-8585, autor de correspondencia), Lianzhen He (0000-0002-8480-7017, 3Zhejiang University, China)
Año2016
Volumen2016
Número209
Páginas59-75
Fecha de publicación2016-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSemiotica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/sem-2016-0007
OpenAlexW2334116424
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas8

As Hong Kong is the only common law jurisdiction operating in Chinese, alongside English, writing a common law judgment in Chinese is like exploring an uncharted domain in legal discourse. Apart from those judgments originally written in Chinese, Chinese judgments have also been prepared by way of translation from English. Besides, there are also English translations of Chinese judgments of jurisprudential value. Judgments in Hong Kong therefore present an interesting case for study both from a legal point of view and from the perspective of discourse analysis. As Chinese judgments in Hong Kong to a large extent mirror images of their English counterparts, they provide us with insights into how judicial thinking embodied in one language is carried over to another. As the translation of court judgments can serve as a clue to the understanding of how judicial thinking is transferred and reflected in another language, this study looks into some of the fundamental problems of legal translation in general and translation of court judgments in particular, showing how the sociosemiotic approach can shed light on those problems

Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Jurisdiction · Linguistics · Perspective (graphical) · Point (geometry) · Political science · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Artificial Intelligence · Comparative and International Law Studies · Computer Science · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Translation Studies and Practices