SPECIFIC FEATURES OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS STYLE AS REFLECTED IN LEGAL LANGUAGE
SPECIFIC FEATURES OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS STYLE AS REFLECTED IN LEGAL LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: This paper seeks to address the complex question of legal language, as a crucial part of social interaction at formal, administrative level. The theoretical part focuses on three main elements – legal discourse, legal texts and legal translation, while the practical part provides several examples for each of the abovementioned components. A significant amount of the given article is dedicated to defining and classifying key concepts in legal terminology, using various resources of both Romanian and foreign researchers, as well as to examining certain difficulties that emerge in translation process, thus requiring specific translation strategies and methods and implying an interdisciplinary approach, as this is a matter of great interest not only for legal professionals, but also for linguists all around the world.

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