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Journal

Comparative Legilinguistics

2018 | 33 | 35-56

Article title

THE WEB AS CORPUS AND ONLINE CORPORA FOR LEGAL TRANSLATIONS

Authors

Patrizia GIAMPIERI

Content

Full texts:
10622-17582.pdf

Title variants

IT
IL WEB COME CORPUS E CORPORA ONLINE PER LE TRADUZIONI GIURIDICHE
PL
SIEĆ JAKO KORPUS ORAZ KORPUSY ON-LINE NA POTRZEBY TŁUMACZENIA PRAWNICZEGO

Languages of publication

EN

Abstracts

EN
Legal language is hallmarked by a pedantic and user-unfriendly jargon whose constructs are all but intuitive, not to mention the legal system specificity which makes it unique in every country. Second language (L2) learners or scholars, hence, may find it difficult to understand the language of the law; whereas translators may consider legal lexical phrases and patterns rather intricate to deal with. The literature claims that a practical way to deepen language knowledge can be found in the Web considered as corpus and in online corpora. This paper is aimed at exploring whether commercial search engines, Web concordancers and online specialised corpora can tackle the issues revolving around legal language. In particular, it will investigate whether Google advanced search and the Leeds Web concordancer  can be used to meet the requirements of legal language learners, scholars and translators. Furthermore, it will address legal language queries (and results) in an online specialised corpus: the COCA. This paper will provide instances of the soundness of the above-mentioned online resources, especially when used jointly as cross-analysis tools. The shortcomings of one can, in fact, be compensated for by the other(s).
PL
Język prawny i prawniczy cechuje się dokładnością i żargonowością a jego struktury nie są intuicyjne. Na to nakłada się określony system prawny, który sprawia, że język prawny i prawniczy jest w każdym kraju inny. Tak osoby uczące się drugiego języka (L2) jak i naukowcy mogą uznać język prawny za trudny do zrozumienia, tymczasem tłumacze mogą uważać, że jest on skomplikowany i zawiły, jak i jego przekład. Tymczasem literatura przedmiotu wskazuje, że remedium na te problemy może być sieć użytkowana jako korpus oraz korpusy on-line. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest weryfikacja tego, czy komercyjne przeglądarki internetowe, narzędzia konkordancji, korpusy specjalistyczne on-line mogą być przydatne w rozwiazywaniu problemów wynikających z natury języka prawnego i prawniczego. W szczególności badaniu poddaje się przeszukiwanie zaawansowane w przeglądarce Google i narzędzia konkordancji sieciowej Leeds i specjalistyczne korpusy on-line: COCA. W ten sposób wskazuje się sposób wykorzystania powyższych narzędzi sieciowych oraz ich działanie w sytuacji, gdy wykorzystywane są jednocześnie jako narzędzia do analizy krzyżowej.
IT
Il linguaggio giuridico è caratterizzato da un gergo pedante ed arcaico. Gli studiosi di una lingua straniera, i traduttori ed i professionisti che si approcciano al linguaggio giuridico in lingua straniera, devono tenere presente non solo le peculiarità tecnico-linguistiche, ma anche quelle legate al sistema giuridico di riferimento. Il presente articolo si pone l'obiettivo di mostrare come il Web, considerato come un corpus, può fornire risposte in ambito linguistico e giuridico. In particolare, analizzerà la sintassi di ricerca in Google, il Leeds ed il corpus online COCA. In tal modo si evidenzierà come, usati congiuntamente, questi strumenti possono fornire risposte attendibili in ambito giuridico.

Keywords

EN
IT
PL

Publisher

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

Journal

Comparative Legilinguistics

Year

2018

Volume

33

Pages

35-56

Physical description

Dates

published
2019-05-15

Contributors

author
Patrizia GIAMPIERI
  • School of Law, University of Camerino Via D'Accorso, 16, 62032 Camerino (MC)

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Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

DOI
10.14746/cl.2018.33.2

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.ojs-doi-10_14746_cl_2018_33_2
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