Observing Eurolects: Corpus analysis of linguistic variation in EU law
Edited by Laura Mori
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 86] 2018. xiv, 395 pp.
Laura Mori
List of John Benjamins publications for which Laura Mori plays a role.
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Subjects Comparative linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Forensic & legal linguistics | Language policy | Translation Studies
Articles
2021 Rethinking Maltese English as a continuum of sociolinguistic continua through evaluations of written and oral prompts English World-Wide 42:3, pp. 245–272 | Article
Scientific literature has tackled Maltese English (MaltE) mainly in the framework of World Englishes in order to focus on its features compared to other varieties of English around the world. In this paper we shed more light on MaltE by proposing a sociolinguistic perspective, oriented towards… read more
2021 Mapping Eurolects: An aggregate perspective on similarities between legislative varieties Languages in Contrast 21:2, pp. 186–216 | Article
Based on the description of EU legislative varieties covering EU directives and their national laws of implementation in 11 languages, we are interested in the extent to which Eurolects are similar to each other, above and beyond trivial genealogical similarities. We thus utilise a… read more
2018 Chapter 1. Introduction: The Eurolect Observatory Project Observing Eurolects: Corpus analysis of linguistic variation in EU law, Mori, Laura (ed.), pp. 2–26 | Chapter
This chapter presents the research framework of the Eurolect Observatory Project. The starting hypothesis of this research project is that language contact through translation of EU legislation has resulted in the creation and dissemination of standardised lexical variants, structural features and… read more
2018 Chapter 9. Observing Eurolects: The case of Italian Observing Eurolects: Corpus analysis of linguistic variation in EU law, Mori, Laura (ed.), pp. 200–242 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on linguistic differences in Italian between two legislative corpora belonging to the Eurolect Observatory Multilingual Corpus: corpus A (EU directives) and their Italian laws of implementation (corpus B). In order to prove that two different legislative varieties do exist,… read more
2018 Chapter 14. Conclusions: A cross-linguistic overview on Eurolects Observing Eurolects: Corpus analysis of linguistic variation in EU law, Mori, Laura (ed.), pp. 370–391 | Chapter
The volume addresses the existence of an EU legislative variety across countries and languages: the so-called Eurolect (Chapter 1). Each chapter tackles this research hypothesis by focusing on one of the 11 cases covered by the first phase of the Eurolect Observatory Project: Dutch, English,… read more
2009 The shaping of Maltese throughout the centuries: Linguistic evidences from a diachronic-typological analysis Introducing Maltese Linguistics: Selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18–20 October, 2007, Comrie, Bernard, Ray Fabri, Elizabeth Hume, Manwel Mifsud, Thomas Stolz and Martine Vanhove (eds.), pp. 291–307 | Article