Field-specific Conventions in the Translation of Commercial Law Documentation for Court Proceedings

Więcławska, Edyta

doi:10.2478/slgr-2019-0025

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“…The search is claimed to be exhaustive on the grounds of applying systemic search criterion and digitalizing all the texts on file for the year 2017 which meet the criterion of a case with a foreign element. For related analyses based on CorpCourt see, for example, (Więcławska 2019a(Więcławska , 2019b(Więcławska , 2020.…”

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Quantitative Distribution of Verbal Structures with Reference to the Authorship Factor in Legal Stylistics

Więcławska

2021

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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The paper aims at describing the findings and conclusions formulated in the analysis of the authorship factor in legal discourse. It is hypothesised that verbal structures show systemically varied distribution across legal discourse and the relevant distinctions run through the authorship categories. When it comes to the aim of the research it draws on the tradition of sociolinguistic methodology targeting issues related to language variation which follows the basic assumptions of functional grammar. From the point of view of the material covered by the analysis it contributes to the research on legal discourse and specifically on its specialised domain referred to as corporate, company or business discourse. It provides additional empirical data pointing to the non-homogeneity of the legal style and formal distinctions originating from rich contextual background. The study is conducted on the material of a custom-designed corpus of English legal texts, classified as secondary genres. Methodologically, the study makes use of the tenets of supervised search of digitalised corpora and automatic data extraction based on discrete units, subsequent identification of recurring longer contiguous and/or non-contiguous sequences, if any, built around the axis of specific verbal structures and finally qualitative comparative analysis (characterisation) of the material. The discussion presents sample data and focuses on the most salient categories, both quantitatively and qualitatively. The inductive approach confirms the formal divergencies in the communicative situation covered by the analysis. The findings encapsulate patterns and tendencies in the quantitative distribution of verbal structures depending on the authorship category. It may be concluded that authorship is a factor delineating distinctions as regards (i) the repertoire of grammatical instruments exploited (verbal structures), which contributes to the specific stylistic profile of given authors. This shows that the thesis posed is verified positively and the study shows further, more detailed distinctions running through groups of subcategories distinguished within the authorship categories specified upon the start of the research.

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“…3 For more extensive description of the context categories coded for the texts making up the corpus see (Więcławska, 2020). 4 The concepts of professional title and institutional name cover more authorship categories compared to previous studies which were based on samples of the corpus used for this analysis (Więcławska, 2019a).…”

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Quantitative Distribution of Verbal Structures with Reference to the Authorship Factor in Legal Stylistics

Więcławska

2021

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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“…The author uses the term parallel corpus as stipulated, for example by(Ebeling, 1998;Więcławska, 2018;Więcławska, 2019).…”

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Sociolinguistic and Grammatical Aspects of English Company Registration Discourse

Więcławska¹

2019

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The paper examines the complexity of legal communication in English in the context of its stylistic variantivity. The research examines whether the variable of genre and selected sociolinguistic factors affect the grammar of legal texts, and, specifically the quantitative distribution of verbal structures. The analysis fits in the paradigmatic approach to generic and sociolinguistic studies, where the distribution of discrete units is presented in quantitative terms. The operationalisation of the research involved the identification of the relevant linguistic material in the corpus, its statistical processing, and conducting relevant R analysis to determine potential correlations. The findings showed that the legal texts making up the corpus were not stylistically homogenous; the varied provenance of the source texts (from a diatopic and diachronic perspective, and in terms of genre profile) affected the stylistic structure/grammar of the texts; the frequency distribution of same grammatical categories tended to be discriminative for various categories of texts. The research makes a contribution through addressing legal communication within the realm of secondary genres that are underrepresented in legilinguistic studies, constituting a significant yet problematic domain from an intra-and inter-linguistic perspective. The findings obtained in the analysis and patterns are of practical use in multinational , institutional environments, where English is used as a lingua franca in corporate communication. Moreover, the conclusions drawn provide a foundation for studies on legal translation in professional settings, including the didactic perspective.

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Discrete units as markers of English/Polish contrasts in company registration discourse

Więcławska¹

2020

Linguodidactica

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The paper addresses the issue of the complexity of legal communication in an interlingual perspective. The analysis fits in the paradigmatic approach to contrastive studies, where the distribution of discrete units is presented in quantitative terms. The cross-linguistic, computational account of the distribution of selected discrete units across company registration documentation shows systemic distinctions. It discloses recurrent, symmetrical and asymmetrical patterns which result from language system-inherent distinctions and/or the operation of translation universals. The strong point of the research lies in addressing legal communication within the realm of secondary genres, which – for practical reasons – are underrepresented in jurilinguistic studies. The study is based on a custom -designed, parallel corpus comprised of authentic materials.

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Field-specific Conventions in the Translation of Commercial Law Documentation for Court Proceedings

Cited by 3 publications

References 22 publications

Quantitative Distribution of Verbal Structures with Reference to the Authorship Factor in Legal Stylistics

Quantitative Distribution of Verbal Structures with Reference to the Authorship Factor in Legal Stylistics

Sociolinguistic and Grammatical Aspects of English Company Registration Discourse

Discrete units as markers of English/Polish contrasts in company registration discourse

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