Books on legal English - general/ Bücher über die englische Rechtssprache - allgemein
am 10.04.2007 von Transblawg
I wrote a whole screen on how you should choose a book as carefully as you choose your toothpaste, but I suspect people want concrete advice. That follows in a later entry.
Here's the general waffle:
Books to learn legal English /Bücher zur englischen Rechtssprache
This topic came up in the comments recently.
The question was, ‘Which books can be recommended?’, but the first question has to be ‘What do I want to learn?’
What do I want to learn?
Listen, speak, read write?
English law? U.S. law? Other?
Terminology?
A broad introduction or specific areas of law?
The court system?
How do I prefer to learn?
Reading? Reading a collection of texts or a continuous text? Find explanations of words in the book or in a dictionary? in English or German?
Doing exercises? Do I need a key to the solutions?
Why did the publisher publish this book?
Be suspicious about publishers’ adverts for books. They may say the book is for law students AND translators AND interpreters AND trainee translators and interpreters AND practising lawyers, but who is it really for?
They may say the book teaches British and American English, but does it really?
And don’t be taken in by a catchy title - look at the contents (conversely, a Denglish title may be the work of the publisher, not the author)
Can I find a course?
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