The European Arrest Warrant: some pragmatic and translation aspects

The European Arrest Warrant (EAW) is an important legal instrument of judicial cooperation and mutual assistance in criminal matters within the European Union. Translation quality and functionality is therefore a fundamental issue in this field, as we will argue in the present article. After a brief introduction to the EAW, we will perform a genre-based analysis of Belgian Dutch and Italian EAWs, addressing terminological issues, morphosyntactic questions and discursive strategies. Subsequently we will take into consideration the pragmatic dimension, focusing especially on the participants in... Mehr ...