Observing Eurolects

Corpus analysis of linguistic variation in EU law

Editor

Laura Mori

| Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma - UNINT

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Focusing on the multi-faceted topic of Eurolects, this volume brings together knowledge and methodologies from various disciplines, including sociolinguistics, legal linguistics, corpus linguistics, and translation studies. The legislative varieties of eleven EU official and working languages (Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Maltese, Polish, Spanish) are analyzed using corpus methodologies in order to investigate the variational dynamics and translation-induced patterns of the different languages. The underlying assumption is that, within the sociolinguistic continua of the EU languages, it is possible to single out specific legislative varieties (Eurolects) that originate at a supra-national level. This research hypothesis is strongly supported by the empirical findings derived from detailed corpus analyses of each language. This work represents the first systematic and comprehensive linguistic research conducted on a wide range of EU languages using the same protocol and applying corpus methodologies to the extensive Eurolect Observatory Multilingual Corpus.

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 86] 2018. xiv, 395 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.86

Table of Contents

Preface: Corpus research at the service of multilingual lawmaking Ingemar Strandvik	viii–xi
Acknowledgements	xiii–xiv
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Eurolect Observatory Project Laura Mori	2–26
Chapter 2. The Eurolect Observatory Multilingual Corpus : Construction and query tools Marco Stefano Tomatis	28–45
Chapter 3. Observing Eurolects: The case of Netherlandic Dutch Gert De Sutter and Fee De Bock	48–62
Chapter 4. Observing Eurolects: The case of English Annalisa Sandrelli	64–92
Chapter 5. Observing Eurolects: The case of Finnish Mikhail Mikhailov and Aino Piehl	94–119
Chapter 6. Observing Eurolects: The case of French Stéphane Patin and Fabrizio Megale	122–146
Chapter 7. Observing Eurolects: The case of German Fabio Proia	148–167
Chapter 8. Observing Eurolects: The case of Greek Vilelmini Sosoni, Katia Lida Kermanidis and Sotirios Livas	170–198
Chapter 9. Observing Eurolects: The case of Italian Laura Mori	200–242
Chapter 10. Observing Eurolects: The case of Latvian Gatis Dilāns	244–265
Chapter 11. Observing Eurolects: The case of Maltese Sergio Portelli and Sandro Caruana	268–293
Chapter 12. Observing Eurolects: The case of Polish Łucja Biel	296–327
Chapter 13. Observing Eurolects: The case of Spanish Lorenzo Blini	330–367
Chapter 14. Conclusions: A cross-linguistic overview on Eurolects Laura Mori	370–391
Index
Index of languages

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