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Buma, Michiel (2016)

Foreignization and Domestication in Legal Translation: A Critical Comparison of Two Translations of the Dutch Civil Code

Master thesis | Linguistics (MA)

This thesis compares two English translations of the Dutch Civil Code. The translations being compared are (1) the translation by Haanappel, which employed a foreignizing, source-oriented approach, and (2) the translation by Warendorf et al., which employed a more target-oriented approach. In addition to comparing differences in the translation of legal terminology, this thesis applies Antoine Berman's system of deforming tendencies to both translations in order to see to what extent they are present in either translation and, if so, to what extent they are relevant to legal translation.

legal translation

domestication

foreignization

deforming tendencies

Dutch Civil Code

comparative law

Author

Buma, Michiel

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Translation in Theory and Practice (Dutch/English)

Supervisors

Foster, Tony

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en