Translation and the Law -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Editor's Preface to Translation and the Law -- How this Volume was Made -- Connections -- Common Concerns -- A Voice of our Own -- On Form -- Acknowledgements -- NOTES -- Section 1: Translation and the Language of the Law -- Indeterminacy, Translation and the Law -- Introduction -- The Laws of Translation -- Authorlessness and Authority -- "Authorizing" Language and Law: Plato's Cratylus -- Language, Tyranny, and Genius -- Determinism and Beyond: Legal and Linguistic Science -- Conclusion: Toward a (Post-)Postmodern Practice of Legal Translation -- REFERENCES -- Understood by All Concerned? Anglo/Aboriginal Legal Translation -- Introduction -- The Role of the Interpreter in the Northern Territory Courtroom Context -- A Controversial Inquest-Extending the Interpreter's Role -- The Cultural Specificity of Western Reasoning and its Hidden Steps -- Cross-Cultural Translation of Legal Reasoning: A Judeo-Christian Example -- Cross-Cultural Translation of Judicial Reasoning and the Translator's Dilemma -- Cross-Cultural Translation of Judicial Reasoning: Developing a Process -- Cross-Cultural Translation of Judicial Reasoning: The Result -- Translation Without Explication: The Cost -- BACK-TRANSLATIONS -- Djambarrpuyngu version (glossed): -- Back-translation 1 -- Back-translation 2 -- NOTES -- Section 2: Responding to Change and to Difference -- Riding the Waves of Fortune: Translating Legislation of the Successor Soviet Republics -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Where the Devil Meets his Grandmother: Iceland and European Community Legislation -- Iceland and Europe -- Membership via Translation -- Joining the Club -- The Meaning of Meaning -- NOTES -- Legal Interpreting on Trial: A Case Study -- Introduction -- Case History -- Interpreting Procedures -- Arguments.

Analysis -- Conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Language in Evidence: The Pragmatics of Translation and the Judicial Process -- Introduction -- Background of the Case -- The Recontextualization of Language -- The Lack of Fit Between Speech and Writing -- The Pragmatics of Translation -- Linguistic Evidence and the Judicial Process -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- The Use of Translators and Interpreters in Cases Requiring Forensic Speaker Identification -- Introduction -- SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION -- THE ROLE OF THE INTERPRETER -- TRANSCRIPTS -- TRANSCRIPT REVIEW -- FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE -- OBSCENITY -- Analysis -- SOCIAL DIALECT (SOCIOLECT) -- REGIONAL DIALECT -- OTHER KINDS OF DIALECTAL VARIATION -- ALLUSION -- TAPES IN ENGLISH -- A Case History -- PROBLEMS -- Future Applications -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Translating Japanese Legal Documents into English: A Short Course -- Introduction -- General Strategies -- Resource Materials -- BACKGROUND TEXTS -- DICTIONARIES -- Specific Examples -- STATUTES -- CONTRACTS -- JUDICIAL DECISIONS -- JOURNAL ARTICLES -- Summary -- NOTES -- Culture Clash: Anglo-American Case Law and German Civil Law in Translation -- NOTES -- Section 3: Professional Issues, Professional Practice -- On the Horns of a Dilemma: Accuracy vs. Brevity in the Use of Legal Terms by Court Interpreters -- Homicide Defined -- Finding Spanish Equivalents -- Murder -- Spanish Terms f or Murder -- Manslaughter -- Spanish Terms for Manslaughter -- Glossary of Terms -- NOTES -- Textual Density and the Judiciary Interpreter's Performance -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- A New Wind of Quality from Europe: Implications of the Court Case Cited by Holz-Mänttäri for the U.S. Translation Industry -- The "Holz-Mänttäri Court Case" -- Translator Liability -- The Situation of a Translation -- Product Specifications -- Potential.

The Disruptive Factor of Translation Agencies -- ISO 9000 -- Liability and Professionalism (Again) -- Intercultural Consultant Status -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- The Legal Translator as Information Broker -- Introduction -- What is Legal Translation? -- The Need for Information Brokering Skills -- Training Legal Translators as Information Brokers -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX: LEGAL RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET -- SOME INTRODUCTORY BOOKS ON THE INTERNET -- BOOKS AND ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS SPECIFICALLY DEALING WITH LEGAL RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET -- NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEGAL TEXTS -- SPECIALIZED DATABASES -- Section 4: Persons, Laws and the Presence of the Translator -- Pragmatism, Precept and Passions: The Attitudes of English-Language Legal Systems to Non-English Speakers -- Introduction -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Las Siete Partidas in America: Problems of Cultural Transmission in the Translation of Legal Signs -- REFERENCES -- Just Interpreting: Role Conflicts and Discourse Types in Court Interpreting -- The Legal Status Of Court Interpreting -- Expectations of the Interpreter -- The Interpreter as Expert -- The Court as Institution -- Rules, Norms and Conventions Regulating the Interpreters' Work -- Court Interpreting: Norms and Reality -- Discourse Types In Court Interpreting -- A Typology of Court Interpreting -- Conclusions: Towards the Emancipation of the Interpreter -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Contributors -- ATA Corporate Members -- ATA Institutional Members -- American Translators Association Officers and Board of Directors, 1995 -- Subject Index -- The series American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series.