Open AccessFine tuning style and precision: Adapting directive citations to Finnish statutes
Author(s) -
Aino Piehl
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
linguistica antverpiensia new series - themes in translation studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2295-5739
DOI - 10.52034/lanstts.v12i.313
Subject(s) - directive , statute , transpose , style (visual arts) , political science , law , computer science , history , archaeology , quantum mechanics , programming language , eigenvalues and eigenvectors , physics
When transposing EU directives into national laws, Finnish drafters usually alter the wording of the directive. This paper describes these modifications and offers some insights into the reasons behind them. The study is based on a corpus of Finnish versions of EU directives and of Finnish laws that transpose those directives.