Analysis Framework for Translation of Maritime Legal Documents
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https://doi.org/10.2478/v10015-011-0013-1Keywords:
maritime documents, textual genre, subgenre, macrogenre, systems of genreAbstract
Maritime activity around the globe currently generates a great amount of translation work, especially from English into other languages. This paper focuses on the analysis of the translation process in maritime legal and administrative documents. The study first establishes which maritime documents are most often translated and a tool is then developed to analyse such documents in detail, based on the concept of textual genre. Such analysis would help translators to better understand these highly specialised documents and thus contribute towards improving translation of the same.
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