计算机辅助法律语言学:语料库分析作为法律研究的新工具

IF 1.4 2区 社会学 Q1 LAW
Friedemann Vogel, Hanjo Hamann, Isabelle Gauer
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摘要

法律只存在于语言之中并通过语言而存在。然而,对法律语言进行系统的实证分析却很少。然而,潮流正在转变:在各个法院(包括美国最高法院)的法官支持一种称为语料库语言学的分析方法之后,密歇根州最高法院于2016年6月裁定,这种方法“与法院理解法定解释的方式一致”。法院说明了语料库分析如何有利于法律案件工作,从而使之前对该问题的二十年研究变得神圣。本文综合了这一研究,并介绍了计算机辅助法律语言学(CAL2)作为一种新的法律研究方法。对精心预处理的法律文本集合进行计算机支持分析,使律师能够在不同的工作环境(司法、立法、法律学术界)中分析法律语义学、语言和社会符号学。本文介绍了跨学科的CAL2研究小组(www.cal2.eu),它的德国法律语料库,以及其他使法律更加透明的相关项目。
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Computer-Assisted Legal Linguistics: Corpus Analysis as a New Tool for Legal Studies

Computer-Assisted Legal Linguistics: Corpus Analysis as a New Tool for Legal Studies

Law exists solely in and through language. Nonetheless, systematical empirical analysis of legal language has been rare. Yet, the tides are turning: After judges at various courts (including the US Supreme Court) have championed a method of analysis called corpus linguistics, the Michigan Supreme Court held in June 2016 that this method “is consistent with how courts have understood statutory interpretation.” The court illustrated how corpus analysis can benefit legal casework, thus sanctifying twenty years of previous research into the matter. The present article synthesizes this research and introduces computer-assisted legal linguistics (CAL2) as a novel approach to legal studies. Computer-supported analysis of carefully preprocessed collections of legal texts lets lawyers analyze legal semantics, language, and sociosemiotics in different working contexts (judiciary, legislature, legal academia). The article introduces the interdisciplinary CAL2 research group (www.cal2.eu), its Corpus of German Law, and other related projects that make law more transparent.

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