Annotating legal English renderings of the Yemeni law of the diplomatic and consular corps and its executive regulations

Abstract EN

The aim of this paper is mainly to report a study of a translation annotation on the English version of '' The law of the diplomatic and consular corps and its executive regulations'', of the Republic of Yemen, that has been translated from Arabic into English by the researchers.

Its main concern is to produce an intelligible annotation on translation to the target language (TL) reader and to examine the strategies that have been adopted to deal with the problems of translating this legal document from Arabic into English.

In this work, theoretical orientations and a review of the concept of general translation and legal translation, translation methods and strategies of legal translation have been deliberated.

As a theoretical framework of this study, Vinay and Darbelnet's model (1995) has been implemented and twenty English translated texts have been randomly selected and annotated and some suggested solutions have been proposed.

Among the recommendations of this study, is how to theoretically and practically pay more attention to legal translation as a subject of study in specialized institutions, at both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes that offer translation courses.