การแปลเชิงกฎหมาย กรณีศึกษาวิเคราะห์การใช้ค�าว่า Shall ในฉบับแปลภาษาอังกฤษ ของรัฐธรรมนูญแห่งราชอาณาจักรไทย พ.ศ. 2550**

Authors

  • Watthana (Ph.D.) Suksiripakonchai

Keywords:

Legal Translation, Legalese, Plain English, Translation Studies

Abstract

General translation is a complicated language process. It poses the difficulty of
changing a text of the source language into the target language. The ultimate goal of it is to create the same effect of the source text on the target text. Legal translation imposes even more complexities of translating due to the nature of the law and its contingency upon a specific culture and language. This research explored the use of the English modal auxiliary verb ‘shall’ in the translated versions of the Thai Constitution B.E. 2550. It was based on the dynamic equivalence concept of Eugene Nida. The research findings demonstrated the
problematic use of ‘shall’ and how inappropriate use of it provided attributes to assist
translators in better understanding of legal translation.

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Published

2019-04-30

How to Cite

Suksiripakonchai, W. . (Ph.D.). (2019). การแปลเชิงกฎหมาย กรณีศึกษาวิเคราะห์การใช้ค�าว่า Shall ในฉบับแปลภาษาอังกฤษ ของรัฐธรรมนูญแห่งราชอาณาจักรไทย พ.ศ. 2550**. Journal of Multidisciplinary in Social Sciences, 14(3), 173–192. Retrieved from https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/sduhs/article/view/186647