Preface: Law and Legal Linguistics in a Constant State of Transition

Anne Wagner; Aleksandra Matulewska

doi:10.2478/cl-2021-0010

Preface: Law and Legal Linguistics in a Constant State of Transition

Comparative Legilinguistics ◽

10.2478/cl-2021-0010 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

pp. 7-16

Author(s):

Anne Wagner ◽

Aleksandra Matulewska

Keyword(s):

Special Issue ◽

Legal Translation ◽

Constant State

Abstract Legal linguistics or jurilinguistics as it has been called recently, is a relatively new field of research. The first research into the field started with analysing the content of laws (the epistemic stage). Later on, lawyers started being interested in manners of communicating laws (the heuristic stage). This Special Issue of Comparative Legilinguistics contains two texts devoted to the development of legal linguistics, legal languages and legal translation and two papers on an institutional stratification of legal linguistics. It is a continuation of research published in the same journal (Special Issue no. 45 titled “The Evil Twins and Their Silent Otherness in Law and Legal Translation”) providing some insights into the problems of communication in legal settings.

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Research models and methods in legal translation

Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies ◽

10.52034/lanstts.v0i12.316 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Lucja Biel ◽

Jan Engberg

Keyword(s):

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Quantitative Methods ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Social Aspects ◽

Special Issue ◽

New Developments ◽

Legal Translation ◽

Traditional Research ◽

Sociology Of Translation ◽

Clear Shift

The introduction presents an overview of traditional research methods in Legal Translation Studies and discusses new developments as represented by the papers comprised in the special issue. The predominant methodology is corpus-based; there is a clear shift from qualitative to quantitative methods. Corpus-based methods are applied to the study of local phenomena, such as terms or phrasemes, and of global phenomena, such as genres and macrogenres, as well as they analyse practical decisions made by legal translators with a view to developing new tools and resources for translators. Other directions include: the application of comparative law methods, sociology of translation and Critical Discourse Analysis. Overall, there is growing interest in the communicative, pragmatic, cognitive and social aspects of legal translation. As the papers demonstrate, research into legal translation requires methodological eclectism and triangulation, as well as further integration along the interdisciplinary lines.

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Business: Conceptualizations of Organizational Change Viewed Through the Lens of Power: A Tutorial for the Speech-Language Pathologist/Audiologist Administrator

Perspectives on Administration and Supervision ◽

10.1044/aas21.1.9 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 9-17

Author(s):

Patrick R. Walden

Keyword(s):

Organizational Change ◽

Health Care Organizations ◽

Social Power ◽

Social Systems ◽

Front Line ◽

Organization Level ◽

Speech Language Pathologist ◽

Constant State ◽

Theories Of Change ◽

Or Organization

Both educational and health care organizations are in a constant state of change, whether triggered by national, regional, local, or organization-level policy. The speech-language pathologist/audiologist-administrator who aids in the planning and implementation of these changes, however, may not be familiar with the expansive literature on change in organizations. Further, how organizational change is planned and implemented is likely affected by leaders' and administrators' personal conceptualizations of social power, which may affect how front line clinicians experience organizational change processes. The purpose of this article, therefore, is to introduce the speech-language pathologist/audiologist-administrator to a research-based classification system for theories of change and to review the concept of power in social systems. Two prominent approaches to change in organizations are reviewed and then discussed as they relate to one another as well as to social conceptualizations of power.

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