LEGAL-LINGUISTIC PROFILING IN INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS: THE CASE OF EU STAFF REPRESENTATION BODIES

• Authors: Colin D. ROBERTSON

Title variants

PL

PROFILOWANIE PRAWNO-JĘZYKOWE W OSADZENIU INSTYTUCJONALNYM – NA PRZYKŁADZIE PRACOWNICZYCH ORGANÓW PRZEDSTAWICIELSKICH W UE

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper applies a structured legal-linguistic profiling approach to EU “staff representation bodies” as a way to access domains that lie behind the public face of EU institutions and their texts concerning translation, language and terminology. The study commences with a legal-linguistic analysis of EU texts for references to “staff”, “staff representation” and “employment” in order to identify specific texts and bodies of relevance to the study. This approach leads to two broad categories: staff committees and trade unions. Information is sought from EU institutions about these bodies and their translation and language arrangements, and a list is made of websites available to the general public. These sites are then examined as part of the legal-linguistic profiling approach.

PL

W niniejszym artykule zastosowano ustrukturyzowane podejście do profilowania prawno-językowego do „unijnych organów reprezentujących pracowników” jako sposobu dostępu do obszarów poza oficjalnym obliczem instytucji UE oraz ich tekstów dotyczących tłumaczeń, języka i terminologii. Badanie rozpoczyna się od analizy prawno-językowej tekstów UE pod kątem odniesień do „pracowników”, „reprezentacji pracowników” i „zatrudnienia” w celu zidentyfikowania konkretnych tekstów i organów mających znaczenie dla badania. Takie podejście prowadzi do dwóch kategorii, ujmowanych szeroko: komitetów pracowniczych i związków zawodowych. Instytucje UE poszukują informacji na temat tych organów oraz ich tłumaczeń i ustaleń językowych. Sporządzono także listę stron internetowych dostępnych dla ogółu społeczeństwa, które następnie są badane w ramach profilowania prawno-językowego.

Keywords

EN

EU language; Staff Regulations; staff representation; translation; terminology; staff committee; trade union; multilingualism

PL

język(i) Unii Europejskiej; przepisy pracownicze; przedstawiciele pracowników; przekład; terminologia; komitet pracowniczy; związek zawodowy; wielojęzyczność; język(i) Unii Europejskiej; przepisy pracownicze; przedstawiciele pracowników; przekład; terminologia; komitet pracowniczy; związek zawodowy; wielojęzyczność

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Comparative Legilinguistics
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 41
• Pages: 9-38

Dates

published

2019-08-22

Contributors

author

Colin D. ROBERTSON

• Member of the Law Society of Scotland. Retired - Formerly with Legal Service, Council of the European Union. Expert with UN Harmony with Nature Programme

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/cl.2020.41.2