Course Description
Translation of legislation from English to French. Review of legislative systems in Canada. Analysis of methods of legislative translation in Canada. Legal translation principles and techniques applied to the translation of legislation. Study of macro-level translation strategies specific to statutes and regulations, including jurisdiction, sources of law, law structure, genre, function (of statutes and regulations and their translation) and context, and micro-level textual specificities of statutes and regulations and their translation. Strategies used to solve specific terminological and phraseological translation problems. Research techniques and use of appropriate references and tools when translating legislation.
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Schedule
| This Course was not Offered During Winter 2025 Term |
| This Course was not Offered During Spring/Summer 2025 Term |
| The tentative timetable is not yet available for the Fall 2025 Term |
| The tentative timetable is not yet available for the Winter 2026 Term |
