The role of SHALL and SHOULD in two international treaties: the UN Charter (1948) and the European Convention on Human Rights (1950).
Academic Article
Publication Date:
2009
abstract:
The aim of the study is to analyse the language if two international treaties: The United Nation Charter (1945) and the European Convention of HumanRights (1950). In particular, it investigates the value of 'shall' and 'Should' in the institutional language of the United Nation and of the Council of Europe through a comparison between the English version of the documents and their Italian translations. The contrastive analysis will provide evides of difficulties encountered in the interpretation of the value and the meaning of modal auxiliary verbs in different languages
Iris type:
1.1 Articolo in rivista
Keywords:
Legal translation; modals; ambiguity; modernization of language; Modality
List of contributors:
D'Avanzo, Stefania; D'Acquisto, Germana
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