合同词汇表:读写英语合同的综合词汇

IF 3.2 1区 文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS
Elizabeth Hanks , Brett Hashimoto , Jesse Egbert
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摘要

商务英语作为一种语言(BELF)和法律英语作为一种语言(LELF)的用户都经常使用法律合同。然而,合同语言是出了名的复杂,部分原因在于其中包含的词汇。为了帮助减轻与学习合同词汇相关的挑战,本文介绍了一个名为合同词汇表(CWL)的美式英语合同词汇表。我们介绍了英语商业合同语料库(CEBC)的编纂过程,该语料库包含六种主要合同类型的 4,800 万个单词。我们介绍了从 CEBC 中提取流行词和专业词的过程,并对词表的可靠性和稳定性进行了验证。最终的词表包含 684 个词组,以及定义、语篇、说明性对照行和来自完整语料库和每个主要合同子类型的调整词频。我们向英语语言教学法专业人员和教师提供了使用 CWL 的建议。
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The contracts word list: Integral vocabulary for reading and writing English contracts

Both Business English as a Lingua Franca (BELF) and Legal English as a Lingua Franca (LELF) users engage with legal contracts regularly. However, contractual language is notoriously complex, due in part to the vocabulary it contains. To help mitigate the challenges related to learning the vocabulary of contracts, this paper introduces a word list of American English contracts called the Contracts Word List (CWL). We describe the compilation of the Corpus of English Business Contracts (CEBC) that represents six major contract types in 48 million words. The extraction of prevalent and specialized words from the CEBC is described, following validation procedures in terms of the word list's reliability and stability. The final word lists contains 684 lemmas along with definitions, parts of speech, illustrative concordance lines, and adjusted frequencies from the full corpus and each major contract sub-type. We provide recommendations to ELF professionals and teachers on using the CWL.

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来源期刊
CiteScore
5.70
自引率
8.00%
发文量
41
审稿时长
62 days
期刊介绍: English For Specific Purposes is an international peer-reviewed journal that welcomes submissions from across the world. Authors are encouraged to submit articles and research/discussion notes on topics relevant to the teaching and learning of discourse for specific communities: academic, occupational, or otherwise specialized. Topics such as the following may be treated from the perspective of English for specific purposes: second language acquisition in specialized contexts, needs assessment, curriculum development and evaluation, materials preparation, discourse analysis, descriptions of specialized varieties of English.
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