Patterns of Linguistic Variation in American Legal English

Goźdź-Roszkowski, Stanisław

doi:10.3726/978-3-653-00659-9

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“…The corpus was compiled to perform research that is focused on the collocations that include terms and that appear in FTAs. Other authors have previously described some features of this type of lexical units in specialized texts and some have named the phenomenon LSP phraseology (Picht 1990;Kjaer 1990;Budin 1990;Galinski 1990;Pavel 1993;Cabré 1998;Lorente 2002aLorente , 2002bL'Homme 1998L'Homme , 2001L'Homme , 2003L'Homme , 2006L'Homme , 2009L'Homme and Bertrand 2000;Gozdz--Roszkowski 2011). However, to date, these units remain underdescribed in the literature and underrepresented in dictionaries, in part, because LSP phraseology is not the direct object of study neither of phraseology nor terminology (Kjaer 2007).…”

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“…This collocational information is a key component in any language and therefore should be included in dictionaries, not only in general dictionaries but also in specialized dictionaries as some authors have pointed out (Benson 1985;Cop 1991;L'Homme 2006;Orliac 2004;Moon 2008). Besides, each subject field exhibits a peculiar phraseology and thus, since collocations can be unpredictable, even native speakers do not know how to combine terms in a particular subject field (L'Homme 2006;Bartsch 2004;Gozdz--Roszkowski 2011). Therefore, language professionals such as translators, terminologists, lexicographers, LSP learners and instructors, and technical writers need this lexical information.…”

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FTA Corpus: a parallel corpus of English and Spanish Free Trade Agreements for the study of specialized collocations

García

2013

Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies

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This paper describes the Corpus of Free Trade Agreements (henceforth FTA), a specialized parallel corpus in English and Spanish from Europe and America and a smaller subcorpus in English--Norwegian and Spanish--Norwegian that was prepared and then aligned with Translation Corpus Aligner 2 (Hofland & Johansson, 1998). The data was taken from Free Trade Agreements. These agreements are specialized texts officially signed and ratified by several countries and blocks of countries in the last twenty years. Thus, FTAs are a rich repository for terminology and phraseology that is used in different fields of business activity throughout the world. The corpus contains around 1.37 million words in the English section and 1.48 million words in its Spanish counterpart, plus 60,000 words each in the Spanish--Norwegian and English--Norwegian subcorpus. The corpus is being used primarily to study the terms and specialized collocations that include these terms in this kind of specialized texts.

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FTA Corpus: a parallel corpus of English and Spanish Free Trade Agreements for the study of specialized collocations

García

2013

Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies

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“…38-39) In previous literature, two studies in American and Turkish contexts (i.e. Patterns of Linguistic Vaiation in Americann English by Roszkowski (2011) and A Comparative Register Perspective on Turkish Legislative Languag by Ozyildirim (2011)) focussed on linguistic variation in legal genres by applying multidimensional analysis. They identified markers of language use and language structures that vary from those found in other communication situations.…”

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A Multidimensional Analysis of Pakistani Legal English

Asghar¹,

Mahmood²,

Asghar³

2018

IJEL

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The present study aims to investigate linguistic variation among genres of Pakistani Legal English by applying multidimensional analysis. In a legal context, language performs different functions. This results in a variety of textual categories on the basis of purpose of communication and linguistic properties. In order to recognize the linguistic properties of any individual genre, a comparative study of genre categories is essential. The study has been conducted on the sample of eight Pakistani Legal genres based on around two million words. Data have been analyzed by applying Biber's (1988) model of Multidimensional analysis. Findings reveal variation in linguistic patterns. All categories have been found significantly different along each dimension. It indicates that legal language is not a homogeneous phenomenon. It has a variety of linguistic features associated with different legal genres, so it must be viewed in terms of goal, purpose, audience and context (variable which affect the language choice.).

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“…The studies approach lexical bundles from different perspectives: synchronic (Goźdź-Roszkowski 2006b), variation in legal discourse (Goźdź-Roszkowski 2011;Breeze 2013) and standardisation of early legal discourse (Kopaczyk 2013) (Goźdź-Roszkowski & Pontrandolfo 2015, 133-134).…”

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“…In the vast majority of studies on lexical bundles (e.g. Goźdź-Roszkowski 2011;Kopaczyk 2013;Güngör & Uysal 2016;Pan, Reppen & Biber 2016), the dispersion range is set at five, which means that a particular lexical bundle must be used in five or more different texts. However, other studies set the dispersion range at 10% of all texts (e.g.…”

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