Pre-translation Analysis of International Legal Discourse: From Social Semiotics to the Concepts of Lotman and Bakhtin

The discursive model of pre-translation analysis international legal discourse relies on interrelated modules: the document conceptual space, with harmonized value opposition between concepts "legal justice" and "compensatory justice", "common good" "sovereignty"; addresser / addressee, embodied in metonymic nomination "parties document"; translator as an intermediate system, semiospheres; extra-textual internalized realities. "Unifying" modules include semiospheres universal basic branch documents, well human values a shared reality. underpin strategies consensus, solidarity, cooperation, marked by explicit implicit intertextual means additional for minimizing imposition hiding differences, implemented tactics generalization, mitigation declarativeness based passivation, nominalization, "marked theme", etc. Separating parties national legislations, "without prejudice" clauses, nominations "sovereign power", hedges scaling down directive modality idiomatic references to "public safety", etc.; recursive procursive texts that could be interpreted conflicting are involved 'non-affection' clauses constative speech acts fix supremacy one over another. space may reflect diverging interests parties, derived from documents. markers "separating" aimed at combined strategy predicting variable interpretation particular norms indication its source normative harmonization. Keywords: International Legal Discourse, Model Pre-Translation Analysis, Unifying Semiospheres, Value Opposition, Discourse-Forming Values.