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3.  CASE STUDY ............................... 15

3.1  At lexical level ................................... 17

3.1.1  Nominalizations ................................. 17

3.1.2  Legal terminology .......................... 19

4.  CONCLUSION ............................... 31

4.1  Major findings ................................... 31

4.2  Implications......................................... 32

4.3  Limitations ................................. 33

3.  CASE STUDY

3.1  At lexical level

Firstly, the translator, under the guidance of the four “bridges”, directs his attention to the lexical features of the source text. This part, whose priority is the source text at lexical level, is to be explained in three subcategories: nominalization, legal terminology and common words with legal meaning. As for nominalization, each and every person who studies Common Law or legal English will be quite familiar with it, for the phenomenon of nominalization, which stands for solemnness, has become quite common in legal texts. With respect to the following two subjects in this section, in fact, as Xiao (2001:49) has said, “Legalese can be divided into two categories: One is specific terminology in law, which in most cases, if not only, appears in legal settings; the other type referrers to those that are not particular terms in legal settings, and often appear in other types of writing”. 

In order to explore the configuration rules of information structure and linguistic realization of legal discourse from the perspective of contrastive discourse analysis, Zhao introduced and elaborated on the four information “bridges” in the communication of legal discourse in his monograph On the Information Structure and Its Linguistic Realization in Legal Discourse: A Chinese-English Contrastive Discourse Analysis (Zhao 2011). The four bridges, that affect the legal communication, is shown below in Figure 3-1.

4.  CONCLUSION

4.1  Major findings

The first finding that the translator discovers through this translation process is that legal translation is not just about languages and translation techniques. To be a qualified legal translator, one has to be quite familiar with the legal terms, well-equipped with legal knowledge and get used to legal jargon. For example, in Excerpt 8 mentioned above in the report, the translator originally translated “smuggled him across the Mexico/U.S. border” into “将他走私跨过墨西哥/美国边界”. In fact, the translation is awkward, for no lawyers or judges would utter such expression. With the advice of team members of our translation project, the translator then changed the former translation to “将他偷渡到美国”. This, obviously, is more standard expression of such act. Another striking example is the translation of “verbal assault” in Excerpt 2, where the translator firstly translated the phrase into “言语攻击” and later changed the translation into “言语侵犯”. The reason is that here “assault” means a violent attack, and it refers to an act of ferocity. “攻击” in Chinese naturally本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。