Nov 4 & 5
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Establishing the meaning behind a French legal provision with its context as an interpretative endeavour: similarities with the art of translation.
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Making the meaning of legal phrases more accessible through their substitution by expressions understandable by "a reasonably intelligent layperson."
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A Graz university-led research project (involving students) aimed at 'modernising' the language of the Austrian Civil code by using plain language ('Klarsprache').
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A literary and biographical example of discrepancy in the use of language, here aggravated by class differences. The narrator's cousin is prosecuted for fleeing a police control and assaulting an officer. At the trial, he cannot understand the questions asked by the prosecution.
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