TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abolou,Camille Roger
TI  - Juridical Discourse in Sub-Saharan Africa. Terminology and Translation in Legal Matters
PY  - 2011///.
							
N1  - 2
N2  - Initially, work on translation concentrated on exploiting the capacity of African languages to express modernity. Later research in translation in sub-Saharan Africa has concentrated on legal ethnography, working on ontological systems, legal texts within which a multiplicity of sources of law are intermingled, in particular customary law, civil law and common law. These justice systems are superimposed and intertwined, giving rise to a legal disorder. The post-colonial African countries have the major challenge, apart from the one-way communication which characterises them, with what can be called interjuridicity, a zone of interference where jurisigns (borrowings and legal calques) appear. The concept of interjuridicity sheds light on the problems of legal translation in sub-Saharan Africa which can be solved by applying various heuristic approaches
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-francaise-de-linguistique-appliquee-2011-1-page-17?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -