MULTILINGUALISM AT THE COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS

• Autorzy: Olga Łachacz , Rafał Mańko
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The paper analyses and evaluates the linguistic policy of the Court of Justice of the European Union against the background of other multilingual courts and in the light of theories of legal interpretation. Multilingualism has a direct impact upon legal interpretation at the Court, displacing traditional approaches (intentionalism, textualism) with a hermeneutic paradigm. It also creates challenges to the acceptance of the Court’s case-law in the Member States, which seem to have been adequately tackled by the Court’s idiosyncratic translation policy.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

multilingualism; Court of Justice of the European Union; legal trans- lation; legal interpretation; lawyer linguist; international justice

• Wydawca: Sciendo
• Czasopismo: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Rocznik: 2013
• Tom: 34
• Numer: 1
• Strony: 75-92

Daty

wydano

2013-10-01

online

2013-12-31

Twórcy

autor

Olga Łachacz

• University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

autor

Rafał Mańko

• European Parliament, Brussels

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DOI

10.2478/slgr-2013-0024