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A sociosemiotic exploration of medical legislation reform in China (1990–2021) 中国医疗立法改革的社会符号学探索(1990-2021)

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International Journal of Legal Discourse Pub Date : 2021-11-24 DOI: 10.1515/ijld-2021-2054

Junfeng Zhao, Jingjing Wu, Yi Yang

引用次数: 3

Terminology as a source of difficulty in translating international legal discourses: an empirical cross-genre study 术语是国际法律语篇翻译的困难来源:一个跨体裁的实证研究

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International Journal of Legal Discourse Pub Date : 2021-11-24 DOI: 10.1515/ijld-2021-2052

F. Prieto Ramos, Giorgina Cerutti

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引用次数: 6

Exploring the U.S. institutional discourse about critical information infrastructure protection (CIIP): a corpus-based analysis 探索美国关键信息基础设施保护(CIIP)的制度话语:基于语料库的分析

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International Journal of Legal Discourse Pub Date : 2021-11-24 DOI: 10.1515/ijld-2021-2058

Le Cheng, Yuxin Liu, Yun Zhao

{"title":"Exploring the U.S. institutional discourse about critical information infrastructure protection (CIIP): a corpus-based analysis","authors":"Le Cheng, Yuxin Liu, Yun Zhao","doi":"10.1515/ijld-2021-2058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijld-2021-2058","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study uses a combinative method of quantitative and qualitative discourse analysis applying the discourse-historical approach (DHA), based on a self-built special corpus composed of the U.S. laws, policies and strategy documents that are directly related to critical information infrastructure protection (CIIP); through a Word List ranked by frequency, it is found that there seems to be a coherent securitizing system which has been formed in the U.S. CIIP legislative practices, with some specific considerations in the CIIP policy-making process including the strategy for risk management. By further investigating the internal institutional relationships and institutional mechanisms with corpus tools, four discursive features and strategies of the U.S. CIIP institutional discourse can be discovered: the leading role of private and specific institutions in public-private cooperation; the coexisting characteristics of generality and precision in the process of object definition; the center-divergent institutional settings in executing CIIP execution; and the coordinating discourse patterns for CIIP within the U.S. legislation. Those discursive practices concerning different institutional actors can be further explained in the broader context of the U.S. social reality. This study is not only helpful in better understanding the legal practices in U.S. cybersecurity, but also provides some meaningful insights on CIIP legislation to policy makers in other countries as well as at the international level.","PeriodicalId":55934,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Legal Discourse","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90589586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 7

Eduardo C. B. Bittar (2020): Semiotics, law & art: between theory of justice and theory of law 爱德华多·c·b·比塔尔(2020):符号学、法律与艺术:在正义理论与法律理论之间

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International Journal of Legal Discourse Pub Date : 2021-11-23 DOI: 10.1515/ijld-2021-2060

A. Wagner, Yiran Zheng

引用次数: 0

A sociosemiotic interpretation of cultural heritage in UNESCO legal instruments: a corpus-based study 联合国教科文组织法律文书中文化遗产的社会符号学解释:基于语料库的研究

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International Journal of Legal Discourse Pub Date : 2021-11-22 DOI: 10.1515/ijld-2021-2055

Gwen Bouvier, Zhonghua Wu

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引用次数: 3

A corpus-based study on opinions of advocates general of the court of justice of the European Union: changes in language and style 基于语料库的欧盟法院辩护律师意见书研究:语言和风格的变化

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International Journal of Legal Discourse Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/ijld-2021-2047

Virginia Mattioli, Karen Mcauliffe

{"title":"A corpus-based study on opinions of advocates general of the court of justice of the European Union: changes in language and style","authors":"Virginia Mattioli, Karen Mcauliffe","doi":"10.1515/ijld-2021-2047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijld-2021-2047","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper presents a Corpus Linguistics study of lexical features in the Opinions of Advocates General (AGs) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Using an interdisciplinary approach, combining legal studies, corpus linguistics and translation studies theories, the study aims to compare the language of some AGs’ Opinions, before and after the introduction of changes in the CJEU’s linguistic regime relating to the language(s) in which Opinions are normally drafted. The results of the corpus linguistic analysis demonstrate that certain changes in the linguistic and stylistic nature of AGs’ Opinions can be observed post-2004. On the one hand, those changes corroborate the study’s primary hypothesis that AG Opinions drafted after 2004 in non-mother tongue languages are stylistically simpler and less ‘fluent’ than those drafted (in AGs’ mother tongues) before 2004. On the other hand, the results also indicate that AG Opinions drafted after 2004 in mother tongue languages are similarly becoming stylistically simpler. These results are inherently interesting in terms of Corpus Linguistics research. However, in order to have a value outside of that field, they are best considered as a basis for more nuanced research questions, which can be investigated through interdisciplinary methods taking account of the factors of production of AG Opinions.","PeriodicalId":55934,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Legal Discourse","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86691889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Pierluigi Chiassoni (2019): interpretation without truth: a realistic enquiry Pierluigi Chiassoni(2019):没有真理的解释:一个现实的探索

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International Journal of Legal Discourse Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/ijld-2021-2050

Xiaofan Chen, Jian Li

引用次数: 1

Eduardo D. Faingold (2020): language rights and the law in the European Union Eduardo D. Faingold(2020):欧盟的语言权利与法律

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International Journal of Legal Discourse Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/ijld-2021-2051

Yuxin Liu, Fumin Fang

引用次数: 1

Towards peace in Europe: on legal linguistics, prosperity and European identity – the European Reference Language System for the European Union 走向欧洲的和平:法律语言学、繁荣和欧洲认同——欧盟的欧洲参考语言系统

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International Journal of Legal Discourse Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/ijld-2021-2044

C. Luttermann, Karin Luttermann

{"title":"Towards peace in Europe: on legal linguistics, prosperity and European identity – the European Reference Language System for the European Union","authors":"C. Luttermann, Karin Luttermann","doi":"10.1515/ijld-2021-2044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijld-2021-2044","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The European Union is a legal community of hundreds of millions of people, established in a single market through European law. This is tied to language and translation into 24 official languages, each with equally authentic status. However, this leads to considerable legal differences between Member States and underscores the dominance of English, at the Court of Justice that of French (monolingualism), both of which have no legal foundation. Rule-of-law order (Rechtsstaatlichkeit) is created by the European Reference Language System (Europäisches Referenzsprachensystem), which is presented here as a tool for the urgently required reform of the language laws in the European Union: Not having a hegemonial focus on a single language (and thus on a single legal world) or on the exclusivity of some few languages, it offers a legal-linguistic basis of communication with all treaty languages of the European Union for a clear European law and prosperity. The official languages of the Member States thus preserve the mother tongue reality of the citizens in the sense of the subsidiarity principle (multilingualism). In this way, the citizens and their Union acquire a legally valid voice and identity. This seems necessary in the face of the present restructuring of the world, in order to maintain peace for the people in Europe and to continue promoting their well-being. The basis is legal linguistics (Rechtslinguistik).","PeriodicalId":55934,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Legal Discourse","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79130372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Claus Luttermann/Karin Luttermann (2020): Sprachenrecht für die Europäische Union. Wohlstand, Referenzsprachensystem und Rechtslinguistik. 卢克·路德曼/卡琳·路德曼(2020年)欧盟语文法律。富有，参考语文系统和法律语言学

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International Journal of Legal Discourse Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/ijld-2021-2049

J. Engberg

引用次数: 1