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Incoming Chinese students in the Spanish university system have resulted in an increase in the number of academic certificates received by the academic administration used to decide on students' admission. These certificates usually include a 'notarized translation' done in China. This article is based on a bilingual corpus of 30 certificates issued in Chinese with their respective Spanish translations authenticated by means of notarial testimonies. Using this corpus, we have conducted an exhaustive contrastive analysis of the translations with their originals, paying attention to four dimensions –microtextual aspects, paratextual aspects, macrostructure and superstructure– and also considering the differences in the legislative context of the notarial procedure in China and in Spain. The results of the analysis have been used to discuss the relatively poor quality of the translations, both in terms of content and formal aspects, and the problems that may be caused by the errors identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this study is to consider the knowledge about behavior (behavioral insights), which has led to behavioral Law and nudges, from a legal perspective, essential in its necessary inter/transdisciplinary analysis. Based on this legal relevance of incentives, we then analyze specific issues relating to their impact on citizens from the perspective of the Rule of Law, the Social Rights and the Democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

this article aims to analyze the situation of terminology in business administration. The research problem is based on offering a theoretical and historical exploration of administrative language since its emergence as a discipline; the methodology consists of carrying out a documentary review of some of the most significant texts of administrative thinking. This work is divided into three sections. The first one carries out a conceptual exploration around terminology and specialized language; the second one examines the current status of administrative terminology; lastly, the terms organization and business administration are analyzed to demonstrate, from themselves, the ambiguity that the administrative language suffers. The main conclusion indicates that administrative terminology is imprecise and ambiguous, so it is necessary to aspire to a clear and precise specialized language for the administrative discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article addresses the information structure in the administrative and legal discourse, and posits that these texts are characterized by a marked discourse order. This proposal is based on van Kuppevelt's theory of information structure and identifies the information structure as presented by this scholar with an unmarked discourse order, which is modified in the legal discourse. The preference for a marked discourse order allows to explain the frequent use of past and present participle absolute clauses in administrative documents, since these syntactic constructions serve to topicalize the elements offered as a justification in these texts. These syntactic constructions, therefore, are useful to achieve the marked discourse order that is preferred due to argumentative reasons, but at the same time they make the interpretation of these texts more difficult. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]