Some slides about Franzoni's life and her major contributions to legal translation

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Legal Translation

2. *Biographical outline
Graduate of the Universidad de Buenos Aires in
English-Spanish sworn translation.
Recently Master of Arts degree in Translation
Studies in the University of Birmingham.
Member of the Colegio de traductores públicos de
la ciudad de Buenos Aires.
Correspondent member of American Translators
Association
Member of the International Association of
Forensic Linguists.

3. *Professional Life
 Professional free-lance (self employed)
translator for more than thirty-five years
 Specialized in materials related to the legal,
economic, financial, foreign trade, technical
and advertising fields.
 Her present work focuses mostly on criminal
law, civil and criminal procedure materials.

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 Careful and skilful handling.
 It is necessary to get involve with the cultural issues
translation is “not just a transfer of information
between languages, but a transfer from one culture
to another” (Hervey et al., 1995: 20).

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Ada Franzoni states that legal translation is not
only between two languages but also between
two legal systems since legal translators have to
know not only about the linguistic part of both
languages, but also about the legal systems of
both of them.

6. * She argues: “el término que yo uso en la
lengua de llegada tiene que tener el mismo
contenido conceptual que tenía el término en
la lengua de partida, y en la traducción
jurídica el sistema conceptual, el contenido
conceptual del término, está determinado por
el sistema jurídico en el marco del cual se
utiliza ese término. O sea, que esa es, en mi
opinión, la regla básica, es el postulado a
partir del cual se puede empezar a plantear la
tarea de la traducción jurídica”.

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That’s why in legal translation there is no
formal equivalence but functional
equivalence so that the translator has to be
aware of that and know the recipient (the
readership).

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Sociedad Anónima (Argentina)
Corporation (United States)
Public Limited Company (England)
Definition: a large company or group of companies
authorized to act as a single entity and recognized as
such in law.

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A public translator is specialized in the legal
part. That is, he/she can do the translation of
a contract, a will, a marriage certificate, and
then he/she signs and seals it with his seal and
professional signature, which is valid and has
public recognition.

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 IT’S QUITE IMPORTANT TO HAVE LINGUISTICS
EDUCATION NOT ONLY IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE
BUT ALSO IN YOUR OWN LANGUAGE.
 CHOOSE A TEXT, TRANSLATE IT INTO YOUR LANGUAGE
AND CONSIDER THE CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS FOR
TRANSLATION
 HAVE A TEAM TO DO TRANSLATION

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It is very important to keep in mind what are our
skills before doing a translation and ask
ourselves: Can I do it? Am I competent in this
field? If not, so please don’t accept to do that
translation because the objective is EXCELENCE
in our work or you can get in contact with
experts on that particular field.

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“La traducción y los sistemas jurídicos”
Panorama de los estudios de traducción.
 “La equivalencia funcional en traducción
jurídica” (1996)
She has translated some books, one of them
is “Niño bien, y otros cuentos” of Scott
Fitzgerald F.

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