Legal Language and Interpretation

Abstract Word embeddings have become important building blocks that are used profoundly in natural language processing (NLP). Despite their several advantages, word embeddings can unintentionally accommodate some gender- and ethnicity-based biases that are present within the corpora they are trained on. Therefore, eth…

In this article the Beyoğlu/Pera district, heart of cosmopolitan Istanbul, is conceived as a site of “interculture”, of interaction, involving a nexus of translators and publishers from different ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds. To explore the making of new culture repertoires replacing those dominant in t…

• ŞULE DEMİRKOL ERTÜRK

Bu makalede hukuk devletinin kavramsal çözümlemesi yapılarak söz konusu kavramın içeriğini oluşturan bileşenlerin neler olduğu, çeşitli hukuk devleti idealleri açısından ortaya konulmaya çalışılmıştır. Ayrıca hukuk devletini besleyen ilke ve kuralların niteliği tartışılarak Hart’ın birincil kurallar-ikincil kurallar a…

• SURURİ AKTAŞ

Current literature on translation sociology often attributes the competitive disposition among freelance literary translators to a drive for symbolic capital. At the same time, co-operation has mostly been researched within the context of non-literary translation. This article aims to contribute to debates on the tran…

• PERİHAN DUYGU TEKGÜL AKIN

This paper endeavours to promote further research into the relatively neglected field of film title translation by highlighting the fascinating range of factors and agents (including not just translators) that help determine the names used to market films imported into a country. As a survey article, it cannot dwell o…

• JONATHAN MAURICE ROSS

Abstract This article aims to examine Yeldeğirmeni, a historically multilingual and multicultural neighborhood in Istanbul, as a translation zone. The language landscape of Yeldeğirmeni, along with its social and cultural texture, has been transformed by both social and political changes in Turkey, and as a result of…

The aim of this paper is to trace the contemporary perceptions/definitions of the translator and translation in Turkey where the translation profession is not a legally regulated profession. (In)visibility of the translator and the scope of his/her expertise are widely debated issues among both the scholars/students o…

• SENEM ÖNER BULUT

There are several ways to define urban planning and to describe the diffusion of modern urban planning throughout the world. This article proposes a further way of describing this phenomenon by discussing the development of modern urban planning in Turkey as a process of translation. Modernization in Turkey has been e…

• NİHAL EKİN ERKAN

İslam’ın doğduğu günden bu yana Müslümanlar gayrimüslimlerle sürekli bir mücadele halinde bulunmuştur. Bu süreçte Müslümanlar kimi zaman çoğunluğu, kimi zaman da azınlığı teşkil etmişlerdir. Bu durum bazen gayrimüslim ülkelerde câri olmuşken bazen de kendi aslî vatanlarında vuku bulmuştur. Müslümanların gayrimüslim to…

• MEHMET HİCABİ SEÇKİNER

The purpose of this article is to examine the concept of ‘ terscüme ,’ a notion recently introduced to the Turkish literary system through the translation of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake , with a focus on the translator’s possible reasons or motives for coining the term. Seventy-seven years after the novel’s completio…

• MUHAMMED BAYDERE

Çevirisi yapılan bir belgenin doğruluğunun, gerçekliğinin ve güvenilirliğinin tasdik edilmesinin gerekli olduğu durumlarda, çeviriye resmiyet kazandırılması gerekir. Çevirilerin resmi olarak onaylanması, “yeminli/tasdikli çeviri” olarak adlandırılan çeviri alanını oluşturur. “Yeminli/tasdikli çeviri” iki temel kavramı…

• NAZAN MÜGE UYSAL

This paper aims to argue that over approximately the last 70 years, both constitutional courts in Continental European legal systems and the European Court of Human Rights have implemented an evolutive (dynamic) approach to human rights by making broad interpretation of both constitutional or Convention rights. It als…

• MURAT ERDOĞAN