Exploring Phraseology in EU Legal Discourse

• Authors: Hrežo Vladislav

Title variants

PL

Eksploracja frazeologii w języku prawniczym Unii Europejskiej

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the present article is to showcase EU legal discourse as a unique phenomenon of supranational specialized communication and on the basis of authentic data analysis identify specific lexical items with a focus on multi-word expressions while considering their structure and function in the analysed text. The present analysis consists in researching a selected monolingual EU Directive in its English language version while using a mixed method approach. The results of analysis indicate that the EU Directive analysed in the presented structural and functional study contains a large proportion of multi-word expressions distinctive for legal language while adhering to the specific distributional patterns regarding the different structural and functional categories of lexical bundles. The article also gives an overview of contemporary scholars’ research accomplished in institutional-legal discourse and translation.

PL

Celem niniejszego artykułu jest ukazanie dyskursu prawniczego, jaki ma miejsce w Unii Europejskiej, jako niezwykłego zjawiska międzynarodowej komunikacji specjalistycznej i, na podstawie analizy rzeczywistych danych, wyszczególnienie specyficznych jednostek leksykalnych, kładąc przy tym nacisk na wyrażenia wieloczłonowe, w trakcie badań struktury i funkcji analizowanego tekstu. Ukazana analiza obejmuje badanie wybranej anglojęzycznej Dyrektywy Unii Europejskiej, przy użyciu metody podejścia mieszanego. Wyniki przeprowadzonych badań wskazują, że analizowana pod kątem struktury i funkcji Dyrektywa unijna zawiera znaczną ilość wyrażeń wieloczłonowych charakterystycznych dla języka prawniczego, które nie zakłócają specyficznego układu syntaktycznego rozważanego z punktu widzenia występowania różnorodnych strukturalnych i funkcjonalnych kategorii leksykalnych. Ponadto, artykuł umożliwia wgląd we współczesne badania naukowe, jakie miały miejsce w sferze formalnego dyskursu prawniczego i translacji.

Keywords

EN

EU legal discourse; formulaicity; functional analysis; hybridity; legal language; legal texts; lexical bundles; multi-word expressions; phraseology; structural analysis

PL

dyskurs prawniczy Unii Europejskiej; formalność; analiza funkcjonalna; hybrydowość; język prawniczy; tekst prawniczy; jednostki leksykalne; wyrażenia wieloczłonowe; frazeologia; analiza strukturalna

• Publisher: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w Chełmie
• Journal: Language. Culture. Politics. International Journal
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 29-52

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Hrežo Vladislav

• University of Prešov

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