Legal system: an additional variable in the analysis of short-term diachronic evolution of legal terminology

Peruzzo, Katia

doi:10.1515/ijld-2017-0016

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“…By drawing the students' attention to the multilingual regime of the EU, it would be possible to make them aware of the complexity of multilingual primary and secondary term creation on the one hand (Peruzzo 2012;Temmerman 2018), and of the linguistic impact of EU legislation on national legislation on the other. Indeed, this article provides evidence in support of the fact that legal terminology does not necessarily evolve at the same pace as the underlying concepts, but it should also be borne in mind that every EU official language evolves separately (Peruzzo 2017). The terminologisation process in EU legal texts thus has multiple facets that future lawyers should be aware of.…”

Section: Short-period Diachronic Evolution From a Didactic Perspectivementioning

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Diachrony in legal terminology: a case study on the rights of victims of crime in the EU

Peruzzo¹

2018

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Diachrony in legal terminology: a case study on the rights of victims of crime in the EU

Peruzzo¹

2018

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“…The diachronic perspective visualized on Figure 5 below was supposed to examine whether legal grammar is subject to variation in time, with focus on the scrutinised verbal structures and -if 'yes' -which verbal structures are affected. The hypothesis related to variation in time rests on the positive empirical evidence on the time-related variation in legal terminology (See: Peruzzo, 2017), including the short-period perspective. The time span variable applied in this study is visualised as the three temporal categories according to which the texts making up the corpus were classified.…”

Section: Diachronic Perspectivementioning

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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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“…Bhatia, 2014). Variations are further identified when relevant data are analysed against time-and culture-related axes (Peruzzo, 2017). The study indirectly draws on the assumptions found in corpus sociolinguistics (e.g.…”

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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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Legal system: an additional variable in the analysis of short-term diachronic evolution of legal terminology

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

Diachrony in legal terminology: a case study on the rights of victims of crime in the EU

Diachrony in legal terminology: a case study on the rights of victims of crime in the EU

Sociolinguistic and Grammatical Aspects of English Company Registration Discourse

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

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