Disentangling the Meaning and Verb Collocates of Terms through Unabridged Statutory Context with implications for teaching: Employer, Hirer and Temporary Work Agency in UK Employment Legislation
Disentangling the Meaning and Verb Collocates of Terms through Unabridged Statutory Context with implications for teaching: Employer, Hirer and Temporary Work Agency in UK Employment Legislation

Summary/Abstract: The paper addresses the issue of pinpointing the meaning of legal collocations of the terms: employer, hirer andtemporary work agency, and through them the meaning of the legal terms in real legislative documents. This genre-specific corpus study sheds some light on how real legal acts can be used in the course of legal language learning tofamiliarise students with verbal collocations specific to employment law. The findings suggest that verb collocatesdisclose the system-bound meaning of terms and mirror the place of terms in the terminological system. Comparinglegal definitions with information revealed through a purposeful analysis of verbal collocations in statutorycontexts proves that the latter may show additional information about the concepts represented by terms. Althoughunabridged legal texts can be an insufficient source of specialist collocations for specialist language learners, ifappropriately easified (Bhatia 1983), they may become a valuable learning material.

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