“Equal but Different?” Challenges of Institutional and Notarized Translation in the Light of Legal Translation Studies
The paper discusses some aspects of the institutional and notarized translation at the present time through the lens of the legal translation. The institutional translation is specifically de- fined as translation produced by / for the international and intergovernmental organizations. The genre specificity of the institutional translation is designated including legislative genres, judgements, parliamentary speeches, etc. The author highlights the arguments on rethinking the (institutional) translation in the multilingual context given missing dichotomy of the source language and target language. She touches upon the issue of applicability of the insti- tutional translation theory to the general theory of (legal) translation in the scope of the “pub- lic - private” dichotomy (as illustrated by the case of the notarized translation).