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Intersemiotic Legal Translation as a Process

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Intersemiotic Legal Translation

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If we analyze the debate about intersemiotic translation, at least four conceptions appear to emerge. In the four conceptions considered, intersemiotic translation is understood as: (i) an adaptation, (ii) an illustration, (iii) a resemiotization, and (iv) a transactional process. It is interesting that each concept focuses on an aspect of intersemiotic translation that a legal design technique could exemplify. The different conceptions in intersemiotic translations that we examine are not mutually incompatible, but focus on various aspects of intersemiotic translations that emerge differently in different tokens.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Queiroz and Aguiar (2015), p. 201.

  2. 2.

    Jakobson (1959).

  3. 3.

    Eco (2003a), p. 158. See also Dusi (2015), p. 184.

  4. 4.

    Eco (2000), see also Dusi (2000), p. 28.

  5. 5.

    Hutcheon (2006), p. 16.

  6. 6.

    Eco (2003b), p. 400.

  7. 7.

    Ibid., p. 400. My translation.

  8. 8.

    Know-Your-Rights Visual Guide for Syrian Refugees. In: MADRE. https://www.madre.org/press-publications/your-support-action/know-your-rights-visual-guide-syrian-refugees. Accessed 6 December 2021.

  9. 9.

    Anti-Fraud Comics | Immigrant Legal Resource Centre | ILRC 2011. https://www.ilrc.org/anti-fraud-comics. Accessed 5 January 2022.

  10. 10.

    Anti-Fraud Comics | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC 2011. https://www.ilrc.org/anti-fraud-comics. Accessed 5 January 2022.

  11. 11.

    Haapio and Passera (2021), p. 225.

  12. 12.

    Murray (2021).

  13. 13.

    Loddo (2020).

  14. 14.

    The video can be accessed and viewed by navigating to the URL, https://youtu.be/7BW1rXEIEDA.

  15. 15.

    Barton et al. (2022).

  16. 16.

    Refugees UNHC for Teaching about Refugees. In: UNHCR. https://www.unhcr.org/teaching-about-refugees.html. Accessed 5 January 2022.

  17. 17.

    Ibid.

  18. 18.

    Droits Quotidiens - Le langage juridique clair. https://www.droitsquotidiens.be/fr. Accessed 24 October 2022.

  19. 19.

    Beaujean O (2022) Le legal design appliqué à la Déclaration de droits lors de l’arrestation. Legal Design Roundtable. 29.04.2022. See also Colos F (2021) Improving access to criminal justice, by rewriting the Belgian letter of rights – Clarity. In: Clarity. https://www.clarity-international.org/articles/improving-access-to-criminal-justice-by-rewriting-the-belgian-letter-of-rights/. Accessed 24 October 2022.

  20. 20.

    Pereira (2008), p. 105.

  21. 21.

    Pereira (2021), p. 622.

  22. 22.

    Malone (1988).

  23. 23.

    Eco (2003b), p. 372. Also see Eco (2000), pp. 79; 91.

  24. 24.

    Letts (1933).

  25. 25.

    De Muro and Imperiale (2021), pp. 32–33.

  26. 26.

    Murray (2020); Annola et al. (2021).

  27. 27.

    LinkedIn (2014) LinkedIn User Agreement | Who owns your content? You do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha7ASaPnjbA. Accessed 15 November 2021.

  28. 28.

    Moroni and Lorini (2021), pp. 4–5.

  29. 29.

    Moroni and Lorini (2021), p. 327; Lorini (2019), p. 73.

  30. 30.

    Various tools for visualizing the contractual clauses which are able to translate some types of contractual clauses in graphic form are being developed. An example of a contract clause visualization tool is accessible online at the following link: Michael Curtotti Research School of Computer Science. https://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~Michael.Curtotti/tools.htm. Accessed 29 October 2022. An example of a contract clause visualization tool. See Passera et al. (2014).

  31. 31.

    Haapio (2013).

  32. 32.

    ”For details of the case see Telecommunications Decisions CRTC 2006-45 and CRTC 2007-75, archived at http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2006/dt2006-45.htm and http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2007/dt2007-75.htm. I would like to thank Helena Haapio and Leila Hamhoum for providing me with this reference.

  33. 33.

    Adams (2006) Costly Drafting Errors, Part 1—Rogers Communications and Aliant. In: Adams on Contract Drafting. https://www.adamsdrafting.com/costly-drafting-errors-part-1/. Accessed 24 October 2022.

  34. 34.

    Haapio and Siedel (2013), pp. 166–167; Passera and Haapio (2011).

  35. 35.

    Haapio (2013).

  36. 36.

    See Sect. 4.2.

  37. 37.

    Italian Court of Cassation. Sent. n.26366/2016.

  38. 38.

    Iedema (2003), p. 41.

  39. 39.

    Ibid., p. 51.

  40. 40.

    Latour (1992), p. 229.

  41. 41.

    Latour (1992); Iedema (2003).

  42. 42.

    Iedema (2003), p. 43.

  43. 43.

    Smith (2014).

  44. 44.

    Lorini and Moroni (2021), p. 3.

  45. 45.

    Latour (1992).

  46. 46.

    Lorini and Moroni (2020); Lorini and Moroni (2021).

  47. 47.

    See, for example, Borutti and Heidmann (2012).

  48. 48.

    Torop (2002), p. 593.

  49. 49.

    Despite mainly referring to interlingual legal translation, Ricca (2023) emphasized the importance of intercultural translation in legal practice, and suggested that lawyers should promote intercultural understanding.

  50. 50.

    Colors can be used to convey information or evoke specific meanings. For example, in a safety manual, important warnings or hazards may be highlighted using the color red, which is widely associated with danger or caution.

  51. 51.

    Sapir (1949); Whorf (1964).

  52. 52.

    Van Leeuwen (2005).

  53. 53.

    Nutting (1964).

  54. 54.

    Campbell and Vidal (2019).

  55. 55.

    Haapio (2013).

  56. 56.

    The racist comic strip was published in the newspaper “La difesa della razza [The Defense of the Race]” on November the 10th, 1938.

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Loddo, O.G. (2023). Intersemiotic Legal Translation as a Process. In: Intersemiotic Legal Translation. Law and Visual Jurisprudence, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44184-4_5

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