A dictionary of legal English collocations as an aid for mastering the legal English genre

• Authors: Katarzyna Mroczyńska

Title variants

PL

A dictionary of legal English collocations as an aid for mastering the legal English genre

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article begins with a brief overview of collocations and their features as being central to legal language and, as such, worth studying, especially in view of the fact that legal language studies tend to be mostly interested in terminology rather than phraseology. To bridge this gap, the article offers a tool for legal English learners, i.e. the dictionary of legal English collocations based on judgments of the UK Supreme Court. Our dictionary project is aimed at analysing the corpus we created, using Sketch Engine software, a cutting-edge lexicographic tool which enables the uploading and exploration of users’ own corpora. The project will focus on analysing bipartite legal English collocations appearing in the corpus. The next stage of the project will be the preparation of the final product of our research, i.e. a dictionary of legal English collocations. We believe that such a dictionary will prove a useful aid for mastering the conceptual structure of legal English.

Keywords

EN

collocation; dictionary compiling; legal English

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: Linguistics Beyond and Within
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 6
• Pages: 130-141

Dates

published

2020-12-30

Contributors

author

Katarzyna Mroczyńska

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/lingbaw.11836