THE PECULIARITIES OF JURISTIC TERMS TRANSLATION FROM ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Abstract

A comparative study of the system of legal terms and concepts in the English and Ukrainian languages is rather complicated process, as not only the terms compared but also the different legal systems. In addition, the legal terminology system is dynamically developing and is in close contact with the life and development of society. So the translation of legal terminology is among the most difficult issues in the fields of linguistics and translation studies. The article analyzes peculiarities of the translation of the legal terms from English language into Ukrainian language and examines general concepts as «the term», «terminology» and «legal terminology». Various scientists’ opinions as to the classification of terms are studied. The greatest attention is focused on the conditions and methods of effective and adequate reproduction of English legal terminology in Ukrainian language. According to different scientists’ point of view we can conclude that legal term – is the word that used in the law and is a generalized legal concept, is characterized by accuracy and has a certain content. The peculiarities of the translation of legal terms into English consist in their polysemy and, in many cases, the lack of equivalent in the language of translation, therefore, we propose the following techniques for the efficient and adequate translation of legal terminology: transcription, transliteration, calque or loan translation, explication, analog translation.