Mapping terminological variation and ideology in data protection laws
Jiamin Pei | Zhejiang University
Le Cheng | Zhejiang University
This study aims to deal with the relationship between terminological variation and ideology by examining the system of
terminology and the defined individual terms in data protection legislation. With two self-compiled corpora incorporating data protection
laws in the United States and the European Union respectively, we adopt a corpus-assisted approach as an effective toolkit to generate a
general profile of the system of legal terminology on the one hand and identify the defined legal terms in the two corpora on the other.
This study, based on Van Dijk’s (1998) multidisciplinary approach to ideology, seeks to unravel
the underlying ideological configurations behind the variation of legal terminology. The findings show that one plausible – though certainly
not definitive – interpretation of the variation in legal terminology in the data protection domain lies in the distinct ideological stances
imposed by such discourse communities as lawmakers, judges as well as the president and the party in power. The ideological investigation of
terminology is a significant aspect of the study of variation phenomena. It is argued that the ideologically variable slants and historical
experiences, as the contextual constraints on the ideological beliefs, may contribute to accounting for the spatial and temporal variation
of legal terminology.
Keywords: legal terminology, variation, ideology, corpus-assisted approach, data protection legislation, discourse community
Published online: 04 December 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/term.00049.pei
https://doi.org/10.1075/term.00049.pei
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