Revisiting judgment translation in Hong Kong

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4898751
AutoresLe Cheng (0000-0002-4423-8585, autor correspondente), Lianzhen He (0000-0002-8480-7017, 3Zhejiang University, China)
Ano2016
Volume2016
Fascículo209
Páginas59-75
Data de publicação2016-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSemiotica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/sem-2016-0007
OpenAlexW2334116424
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências 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