This book analyses and investigates the neutral legal formulae of the English common law and the Italian and French civil law traditions, together with those used in international settings such as the European Union. It explores the usage of English formulae (and of their Italian and French counterparts) that are mentioned in terms of service, national and EU legislation, and in national and European parliamentary debates. The author takes a comparative approach to analysing the various corpora, carrying out cross-analyses to allow understanding of the usage(s) in contexts of neutral legal formulae. This reveals insights into word frequencies in the three languages and legal systems, as well as in different genres, and the book goes on to compare the relative frequencies of the neutral formulae across the three languages to investigate their variety. This book will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners in fields including linguistics, law, and corpus-based legal translation.

Explores how generic or neutral legal formulae are rendered in another language Examines differences between European and national legal language and formulae Provides a unique assessment of legal formulae obtained via corpus consultation in three different languages

Autorentext

Patrizia Giampieri is a adjunct professor of English at the University of Camerino, Italy. She received her MSc in Applied Linguistics from Aston University, UK, and her PhD in legal translation from the University of Malta. She has authored many academic articles on legal language, corpus-based translation, machine translation, and legal translation.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Legal Language and Legal Translation.- Chapter 3: The Investigation.- Chapter 4: Legal Formulae in Terms Of Service.- Chapter 5: Legal Formulae in the National Legislations and in EU Directives on Consumer Contracts.- Chapter 6: Legal Formulae in National and European Parliamentary Debates.- Chapter 7: Summarising and Comparing the Findings.- Chapter 8: Conclusions.