El traductor jurídico y la intertextualidad : el ordenamiento jurídico como contexto comunicativo-documental del documento de partida

This paper deals with the concept of intertextuality from the point of view both of law and textual linguistics. Studying this topic can help both legal professionals and translators to interpret the document. Our study should help the translator to fit the legal document in the legal system, in the group of all private documents and, more specifically, in those of its type and, finally, in the chain of documents it belongs to. Being aware of that helps him in turn to translate any remissions to other legal documents.