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Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse
Edited by Teresa Fanego and Paula Rodríguez-Puente
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 91] 2019
► pp. 291–294

Subject index

A

  • acts of parliament passim8, 10, 14–16 , 173–174 , 177, 181–184 , 188–189 , 190, 193, 235–260
  • adjective 91–92 , 103, 125, 133, 137, 141, 155–156 , 205, 272
    • attributive9, 163–166 , 250
  • adverb59, 92, 103, 125, 155–156 see also adverbial
    • attitudinal13
    • compound3, 32, 45, 89–90
    • consequential11
    • in binomials91
    • stance126
  • adverbial9, 11, 60, 126
  • anaphora 30–32 ; , 45, 89, 172, 178, 180see also pronoun
  • Anglo-Norman3
  • argumentation passim 12, 62, 69, 86–87 , 100, 123, 125, 127–128 , 132–143 151, 261
  • article
    • omission of30, 34, 82
  • assumption passim 13, 123, 128–131 , 140–144
  • authorial124, 144, 172, 185–187 , 190, 192–193
  • authority8, 44, 56, 71–72 , 123, 139, 143–144 , 151, 173, 185–186 , 193, 245, 248, 253, 256

B

  • binomial11, 25–26 ; , 30, 34, 45–46 ; , 91–93 ; , 100, 238, 243, 250see also multinomial
  • Bulgarian187

C

  • Catalan52, 55
  • clause35, 44, 144, 150, 186see also conditional
    • active 38–39 , 41
    • adverbial155, 160–162
    • complement passim 12–13 , 14, 84, 87, 89, 100, 124–146 155, 160–162 , 166
    • concessive59, 67–68
    • coordinate3, 11, 35, 45, 161
    • insubordinate59, 62, 68
    • participial36, 45
    • passive3, 9, 11–12 , 38–39 , 40, 41, 45–46 , 94, 96, 98–100 , 156, 158–159 , 240
    • relative 11–12 , 14, 30, 35–36 , 45, 87, 89, 90, 95, 98, 100, 155, 160–162 , 166, 250
    • subordinate14, 35, 36, 84, 87, 155, 160, 163, 166
  • collocation passim;16, 42, 85, 92, 235–260 see also semantic prosody
    • and social representation passim 16, 235–260
  • conclusion 13–14 , 128–133 , 137–139 , 142
  • conditional passim 3, 11, 51–78 97
    • complex connective52, 55, 60–61
    • epistemic54, 69
    • insubordinate59, 62, 68
    • marked11, 59, 66–67 , 72
    • normative vs non-normative56
    • si-conditional 58–60 , 67–68
    • speech act54, 69
    • unless-conditional56, 59–60
  • contract passim 11, 25–50
    • land contract passim 11, 25–50
    • lease agreement26, 41
    • macrostructure11, 30, 45
    • operative provisions11, 28–29
    • recitals11, 27–29 , 45
  • contraction9, 14, 149, 155, 158–159
  • corpora
    • Academic Journals Corpus (AJC) passim 129–146
    • American Law Corpus 129
    • British Law Report Corpus (BLaRC)125, 133, 139, 174
    • British Library Patent Archive Sample (BLPAS) passim 208–234
    • British National Corpus (BNC)12, 33, 81–84 , 87, 106, 222
    • Corpus of Early Modern English Statutes 1491–1707 177, 183, 195
    • Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760 (CED) passim 10, 105–122 178
    • Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535–1999 (CHELAR) passim vii, 14–15 , 149–199
    • Corpus of Judicial Opinions (CJO) passim 129–146
    • Corpus of Late Modern English Statutes passim 16, 235–260
    • Corpus de Sentencias Penales (COSPE)33
    • Hansard Corpus passim 52–78
    • Helsinki Corpus 55, 177, 183–184
    • Integrated Reference Corpora for Spoken Romance Languages (C-ORAL-ROM) passim 52–78
    • International Corpus of English (ICE-GB) passim 52–78
    • Lascaster-Oslo-Bergen Corpus of British English 6
    • London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English 6
    • Old Bailey Corpus 2.0 (OBC) passim 10, 17, 178, 261–285
  • counterfactuality53, 55–56 , 97
  • courtroom discourse passim, passim, passim 9, 11–13 , 16–17 , 51–78 87, 105–122 126, 189, 261–285
  • Czech33

D

  • data problem9
  • discourse marker9, 11, 66
  • drunk passim 17, 262–285
  • Dutch52, 55

E

  • economy passim 14, 90, 98, 149–169
  • ellipsis36, 89, 94–95 , 100
  • English for Legal Purposes144, 174
  • English for Specific Purposes7
  • evaluation passim 54, 123–146 185, 239, 256, 267, 279
  • evolutionary theory passim 15, 201–234
    • Darwinian 205–206 , 225
    • replication passim 15, 201–234
    • selection passim 16, 201–234

F

  • fact passim 13, 87–88 , 100, 113, 122, 123–146
  • fiction à substrat specialisé (FASP)2, 113–114
  • French passim 3, 11, 44, 51–78 90, 187, 189
  • G
  • gender181, 237–238 , 249, 265, 266
    • women 181–182 , 236, 238, 241, 246, 250, 255, 266, 269–270 , 281
  • genre2, 6–12 , 14–17 , 38, 43, 46, 57, 150, 152, 167, 186see also legal discourse; register; text type
    • blogging206
    • change passim 201–234
    • contract passim 11, 25–50
    • fiction passim 2, 7, 9–10 , 14, 149–169 238
    • IMRD rhetorical structure152, 167
    • insurance policy3, 8, 45
    • judicial opinion passim 13, 123–146
    • law report passim 8, 14–16 , 125, 129, 149–199
    • legal passim, passim, passim 8, 10, 12, 14, 45, 65, 73, 79–103 123–146 201–234
    • newspaper article passim 14, 149–169 240, 257
    • parliamentary acts passim 8, 10, 14–16 , 173–174 , 177, 181–184 , 188–189 , 190, 193, 235–260
    • patent passim 15–16 , 201–234
    • proclamations10, 14–15 , 174, 177, 182–184 , 188, 190, 193
    • research article passim, passim 7, 9, 14, 25, 79–104 125, 129, 149–169 204–205
    • speech-based10, 178
    • statutes passim 1, 9, 14–15 , 56, 173–174 , 177, 182–184 , 188–190 , 193, 235–260
    • trial proceedings passim 10, 105–122 176–178 , 189
    • wills8, 40, 45, 80, 177, 185, 193
    • witness depositions10, 176, 178, 189, 193
  • genre analysis 202–205
  • German55, 187

H

  • historical pragmatics passim;2, 9–10 ; , 16, 226, 235–260 ; see also (im)politeness
  • Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary 267

I

  • idea 130–131 , 139–140 , 143
  • impersonal3, 16, 38, 45, 143, 172–173 , 192, 240, 256
  • Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales (ICLR) 175–176 , 192–193
  • industrial revolution208, 217, 223
  • intensification passim 17, 261–285
    • amplifier280
    • downtoner280
  • interpersonality passim; 14–15 ; , 125, 171–199 ; see also metafunction: interpersonal
  • Italian passim 11, 25–50 52, 55, 127

J

  • judicial opinion passim;13, 123–146 ; see also law report; legal opinion

K

  • keyness passim 12, 79–103
  • king passim 16, 236–260

L

  • Latin3, 210
  • law report passim;8, 14–16 ; , 125, 129, 149–199 ; see also judicial opinion; legal opinion
  • legal discourse passim
    • academic passim, passim 8, 12, 25, 79–103 123–146
    • business passim 12, 46, 79–103 125
    • commercial passim 12, 25, 79–103
    • courtroom passim, passim, passim 9, 11–13 , 16–17 , 51–78 87, 105–122 126, 189, 261–285
    • descriptive8, 173, 177, 190, 193
    • expository8, 152, 173–174 , 193
    • formal8, 14, 33, 167, 171–172 , 178, 182, 189, 192–194 , 240
    • frozen8, 38, 45
    • hybrid8, 52, 57, 173–174 , 190, 193
    • juridical8
    • legalese11, 45
    • legislative8, 25, 38, 40, 65, 89, 92–94 , 97, 246
    • operative8, 11, 28–29 , 173–174 , 193
    • prescriptive8, 15, 26, 38, 40, 44–46 , 173–174 , 177, 182, 190, 193
  • legal opinion passim; 8–9 ; , 123–146 ; see also judicial opinion; law report
  • length
    • of sentence3, 12, 30, 35, 45, 84, 89, 97–98 , 100, 172
    • of word 155–156
  • lexical bundle passim 12, 13, 26, 105–122 125
    • as utterance launcher13, 113, 119
    • other-directed 111–112 , 119
    • speaker-centered 111–112
    • with specific reference13, 111, 113, 119
  • listing12, 35, 89, 100

M

  • majesty passim 16, 236–260
  • metafunction passim;11, 51–78 see also conditional
    • ideational passim 11, 51–78
    • interpersonal passim 11, 51–78 ; 125, 173, 185, 187, 192see also interpersonality
    • textual passim 11, 51–78
  • modal passim 3, 11, 13, 14, 26, 38–45 51, 55–57 , 64–66 , 71–74 , 84, 95–98 , 103, 135, 149, 155, 158–159 , 166see also modality
    • be going to 149, 158–159
    • deontic 25–26 , 38–46 , 56, 87, 95, 97–99
    • Fr. devoir 71
    • It. dovere 39, 42–43
    • Fr. falloir 71
    • got to 159
    • have to 159–160 , 166
    • It. potere 39, 42–43
    • Fr. pouvoir71
    • It. volere42
  • modality passim 25–26 , 30, 38–46 79, 87, 97
  • move analysis passim 7, 15, 201–234
    • move sequence analysis205, 213, 219–222 , 225
    • move type analysis 213–219 , 225
  • multi-dimensional analysis6, 14, 179, 190see also factor analysis
    • Involved vs. Informational Production15, 173, 178
    • Narrative vs. Non-narrative Discourse178
  • multinomial11, 30, 34, 45, 238, 243see also binomial

N

  • negation136, 268, 275, 276, 281
  • negative39, 42, 59–60 , 87, 93, 128, 130, 134, 136, 141, 143
  • nominalization3, 9, 25, 30, 37, 45–46 , 154–158 , 165–166 , 172
  • notion 129–131 , 139–140 , 143
  • noun
    • as pre-modifier passim 14, 155–169
    • attitude127, 130, 132
    • common82, 156–158
    • communication123, 130–132
    • deontic44
    • ending in -mento 37
    • ending in -zione 37
    • epistemic passim 13, 123–146
    • noun that-pattern passim 13–14 , 123–146
    • possessive12, 83–86 , 99, 103
    • stance passim 13, 123–146
    • status 127–128 , 130
  • noun phrase150, 155see also complexity
    • bare34
    • post-modification14, 153–155 , 163–164 , 167
    • pre-modification14, 158, 163–165

O

  • oral/literate continuum9
  • Oxford English Dictionary (OED)189, 267–268 , 273–274

P

  • part of speech (POS) passim 12, 79–103
  • participle84, 89, 91, 94, 103
  • passive
    • be passive 98–100 , 156, 158
    • get passive 158–159
    See clause: passive
  • patent passim 15–16 , 201–234
  • Patent Law Amendment Act16, 215, 223
  • Patent Office16, 208, 215, 219
  • person passim 16, 236, 238–239 , 243–256
  • Plain Language Movement3, 11, 38, 40
  • Polish26, 127
  • politeness41, 62, 69, 187, 189, 261, 266–267 , 272
    • face99, 128, 261, 266–267 , 271, 276–277 , 282
  • pragmatics 1–2 , 9–10 , 26, 41, 46, 208see also historical pragmatics
    • euphemism261, 271–272 , 274
  • preposition103, 154, 239
    • complex30, 33, 45
  • prepositional phrase14, 114, 144, 153–155 , 163–164 , 172
    • for-phrase154, 163
    • in-phrase154, 163
    • of-phrase163
    • on-phrase154, 163
  • pronoun 30–31
    • majestic plural15, 183
    • personal passim 13–15 , 31, 82, 111–112 , 117, 149, 155, 158–159 , 171–199
    • relative12, 32, 35, 84, 87, 89, 90, 94, 100, 103, 129see also clause: relative
    • sex-role bias31, 181–182
    • wh- 84, 97–98

Q

  • queen passim 16, 236–258
  • question(ing) passim 61, 62, 106, 108, 115, 118, 188, 242, 261–285
    • rhetorical97
    • wh-13, 108, 115, 116, 117
    • yes/no108, 116

R

  • reference target passim 17, 261–285
  • registersee also genre; legal discourse; text type
    • academic passim, passim, passim 7–8 , 12–14 , 25, 79–103 124–146 149–169 180, 185, 187, 204–205
    • agile passim 14, 149–169
    • movie language2, 113–114
    • sub-register passim 12–13 , 105–122
    • transversal12, 81, 99
    • TV language2, 113–114
    • uptight passim 14, 149–169
  • repetition11, 30–32 , 89, 91, 172, 180, 237, 240, 248
  • Romance languages passim 44, 51–78
  • Russian187

S

  • semantic prosody16, 236, 239–241 , 243, 254–257
  • Shakespeare 1–2
  • sober 17, 268, 270–271 , 274–277 , 280, 283
  • social class263, 265, 267–268
  • Somali7
  • sovereign passim 16, 236–258
  • Spanish passim 11, 33, 51–78 187
  • speaker role 265–266 , 278, 280–281
  • stance passim 11, 13, 54–55 , 66, 123–146 187, 264–265 , 272
  • style
    • impersonal3, 38, 45, 143, 173, 192, 240, 256
    • involved171, 173, 178, 180, 192
  • subjectivity passim 15, 123, 127, 171–199
  • suggestion 128, 130–131 , 139, 143

T

  • text type 6–7 , 56–57 , 171, 173–174 , 178, 182, 188, 190, 192–194 , 203, 240
  • trial passim, passim 10, 12–13 , 25, 62, 73, 105–122 176–178 , 187, 189, 193–194 , 262–283
    • closing argument13, 105–114 , 120, 265
    • cross-examination13, 57, 105–114 , 116–120
    • direct examination13, 105–108 , 114–118 , 120, 188, 267
    • O. J. Simpson passim 13, 105–122
    • opening statement13, 105–114 , 120, 265

V

  • varieties of English
    • American passim, passim 26, 40, 56, 105–122 127, 129–144 161, 267
    • Irish56, 267
  • verbsee also modal; verb form
    • deontic44
    • lexical 155–156
    • mental99, 112, 185
    • of communication 111–112
    • of perception 111–112
    • of reporting125
    • performative28, 43
    • phrasal14, 158–159
    • speech act125
    • verb pairs 91–92
  • verb form 36–37 , 63, 103
    • future44
    • normative indicative44
    • past64
    • present indicative12, 44, 63–64 , 84, 87–88 , 103
    • progressive 158–159
  • voiceSee clause: passive
Published online: 6 February 2019
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