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Item LEVEL OF EQUIVALENCE IN THE TRANSLATION OF BRITISH AND TURKISH LEGAL TEXTS(2017-01-07) KAÇAN, Aylin; AKIN, ÖzgeIn our globalized world, the international relations for various purposes between the people or the States are conducted within the framework of the legal rules. The importance of legal translation in the establishment of these relations, in their soundness, and in their continuity is undeniable, since every State has her own legal rules and the translation of these rules into different languages has become a necessity in order to establish such relations. However, the fact that the legal texts include culture-specific legal terms and concepts, and the difficulty of transferring these into the target language correctly has brought up the problem of equivalence. Therefore, knowing the sources of the differences in the legal systems, knowing the difficulties in the legal translation and using the appropriate methods and techniques in the translation process are of capital importance in establishing equivalence in the legal translations. The objective of this thesis is to determine the level of equivalence in the translation of British and Turkish legal texts and to ensure equivalence for the legal terms and concepts with no equivalents by using various translation methods. The present study concentrates on the problems arising from the differences of the legal systems in the translation of the legal texts belonging to the British and the Turkish legal systems, which are based on the Anglo-Saxon Law and the Civil Law. Since these problems arise most frequently in the translation of the legal terms and concepts, this study presents solutions through various translation methods for some legal terms and concepts determined to have no equivalence in some branches of law. In this study, opinions of translation theorists defending functionality are included. For this reason, descriptive method is a method used for this study. Moreover, since the British and Turkish legal texts and their legal terminologies are analyzed comparatively, the contrastive method is also used in this study. In consequence of this study, it is concluded that some legal terms and concepts which have no equivalence in the target language can be translated into the target language through various translation methods. Besides word-for-word translation, it is observed that the methods such as finding functional equivalence, paraphrasing, borrowing, neologism, translator’s note and using source language term with its equivalents from the other legal languages of the same legal family in the target text could be useful in solving the equivalence problem.