Mediation: An Unexplored Language Skill in Legal English Teaching
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | The mediation of expert professional discourse to lay people is a skill standing on the borderline between translation and communication skills. It differs from translation/interpreting in that its aim is not to render a word-for-word account but, instead, to select relevant information and convey it to the decoder in an easily intelligible way. This may mean, for instance, the replacement of technical terms with everyday expressions, the use of examples for the sake of illustration, etc. |