INTEGRATING THE NEEDS OF THE LOCAL MARKET IN TEACHING LEGAL TRANSLATION

The discussion presented in the paper is an attempt to set out the market-oriented ground for teaching legal translation in the court setting. The postulate is that information about the prevalent types of civil cases involving translation and the patterns as regards dominating textual genres in various categories of court cases can make the didactic process in the said domain more effective, market-oriented and finally enhance the rhetorical and pragmatic expertise of students and translators operating in the said field. In order to collect the necessary data the author conducted  a search of court files, compiled a corpus of the relevant texts and performed statistical analysis. The relevant material was selected on the basis od being qualified as involving a foreign element, which – in most general terms – implies the linguistic processing of the documents in translation[1]. The data were analysed  statistically with the intention to determine the patterns related to the directionality of translation, instituional distribution of the translation process, and the genre scheme.

The local dimension as regards the framework of the research approach which underlies the study is based on the assumptions of the GENTT research group on multilingual management and translation of court documents[2].

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3. Code of Civil Procedure as of November 17^th 1964 (Journal of Laws 2014.101). In Lex Tłumaczenia. Wolters Kluwer S.A. Licence no. MSG0115002_SCW005.

4. Rozporządzenie Ministra Sprawiedliwości as of June 25 2015. Regulamin urzędowania sądów powszechnych (Journal of Laws 2015.925).