Lexical bundles in the corpus of Slovak judicial decisions
Lexical bundles in the corpus of Slovak judicial decisions
Author(s): Miroslav ZumríkSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: lexical bundles; formulaic language; judicial decisions; specialized discourse; legal linguistics; pattern-driven research;
Summary/Abstract: The paper follows the tradition of research in legal linguistics and into formulaic language, specifically into lexical bundles. The aim of the paper is to describe lexical bundles in samples from the corpus of Slovak judicial decisions OD-JUSTICE by means of quantitative characteristics of the identified bundles and by their comparison with bundles found in two other specialized corpora: the corpus of Slovak legal regulations and the corpus of annual reports by Slovak public institutions. For the identification of bundles, the concept of the h-point was used. Identified bundles are described with respect to their maximal, minimal, average, median and mode values, distributions and ratios. The aim of the paper is to outline an interpretation of these bundle characteristics with regard to communicative function(s) of compared document genres.
Journal: Jazykovedný časopis
- Issue Year: 72/2021
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 705-718
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English