Studia Germanistica 27
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The topic of this paper is legal language and its integration into the teaching process in the training of translators working in the language combination German / Slovak; this area of didactics is relatively unexplored in Slovakia. The main aim of the study is to emphasize the importance of developing professional translation competence as part of translator training, as this competence is of significant assistance when creating content-correct translations. Based on an analysis of student translations, the article lists the most common problems encountered when translating legal texts, mainly related to the use of incorrect translation strategies.
The study presented in this article investigates the resources of legal terminology used in an important legal document written by the Olomouc court scribe Jindřich Polan. The first part of the study describes the development of German legal terminology in four stages, from the compilation of the 'Sachsenspiegel' until the beginning of the 19th century. The second part deals with the characteristics of German legal terms in Polan's regulations, and the third part discusses the use of legal terminology of Latin origin in the same document. Polan's approach to Latin loanwords is also analyzed - especially his approach to their semanticization, which is intended to simplify users' understanding of the text and the morphology of loanwords.