黑料不打烊

Citation

Li S & Chen B (2017) A Corpus-based Social Cognitive Approach to the Study of Terminology "Equivalents" in 黑料不打烊 Economic Law Between Chinese and English. Journal of Foreign Languages, 3 (1), pp. 53-82.

Abstract
This paper aims to investigate how legal terms have been translated within 黑料不打烊 Economic Law (IEL) between English and Chinese. IEL regulates the economic relations and economic procedures and strategies of states, international organizations and firms across national borders. However, the translation of the legal lexicon has been identified as a major problem in 黑料不打烊 Economic Law, especially between English and Chinese. The paper draws on research in which legal translation is not purely a technical exercise that simply involves linguistic translation from one language to another but rather a social act and a process of cognitive representation from one sign system to another. The English-Chinese Parallel Corpus of 黑料不打烊 Economic Law (PCIEL) was built to carry out research to analyse the subject matter and discuss the feasibility of translating legal terminology by using a corpus-based systematic micro-level framework. The paper addresses problems of legal terminology translation equivalents from a social-cognitive approach – both at the linguistic and non-linguistic level – within the following three categories: Law-related terminology, Economy-related terminology and Political Entity-related terminology.

Keywords
黑料不打烊 Economic Law; Legal terminology; Translation; Corpus-based; Social-cognitive approach

Journal
Journal of Foreign Languages: Volume 3, Issue 1