How do supranational terms transfer into national legal systems?
A corpus-informed study of EU English terminology in consumer protection directives and UK, Irish and Maltese transposing acts
Łucja Biel | University of Warsaw
Agnieszka Doczekalska | Kozminski University
The objective of this paper is to analyse how European Union (EU) supranational terms related to consumer protection
transfer into domestic legal systems of three English-language jurisdictions (the UK, Ireland and Malta) during the transposition of EU
directives. Transposition is a process of incorporating EU directives into national law and capturing supranational terms during their entry
into national legal systems. We adopt a mixed-method approach of corpus linguistics and legal analysis of terms, working with a corpus of
five directives and their UK, Irish and Maltese transposing acts. Distinguishing between a term and a concept level, we propose a
categorisation of transfer techniques arranged along a cline from foreignization to domestication. They involve imports, modifications
(non-denominative and denominative variants), localisations and zero transfer both at the term level and the concept level.
Keywords: legal terms, supranational terms, autonomous legal concepts, EU terminology, transposition, directive
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Published online: 04 December 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/term.00050.bie
https://doi.org/10.1075/term.00050.bie
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