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<p>The paper follows the tradition of research in legal linguistics and into formulaic language, specifically into lexical bundles. The aim of the paper is to describe lexical bundles in samples from the corpus of Slovak judicial decisions OD-JUSTICE by means of quantitative characteristics of the identified bundles and by their comparison with bundles found in two other specialized corpora: the corpus of Slovak legal regulations and the corpus of annual reports by Slovak public institutions. For the identification of bundles, the concept of the h-point was used. Identified bundles are described with respect to their maximal, minimal, average, median and mode values, distributions and ratios. The aim of the paper is to outline an interpretation of these bundle characteristics with regard to communicative function(s) of compared document genres.</p>
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The paper follows the tradition of research in legal linguistics and into formulaic language, specifically into lexical bundles. The aim of the paper is to describe lexical bundles in samples from the corpus of Slovak judicial decisions OD-JUSTICE by means of quantitative characteristics of the identified bundles and by their comparison with bundles found in two other specialized corpora: the corpus of Slovak legal regulations and the corpus of annual reports by Slovak public institutions. For the identification of bundles, the concept of the h-point was used. Identified bundles are described with respect to their maximal, minimal, average, median and mode values, distributions and ratios. The aim of the paper is to outline an interpretation of these bundle characteristics with regard to communicative function(s) of compared document genres.

Lexical Bundles in the Corpus of Slovak Judicial Decisions

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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The paper follows the tradition of research in legal linguistics and into formulaic language, specifically into lexical bundles. The aim of the paper is to...

Lexical Bundles in the Corpus of Slovak Judicial Decisions

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 705 - 718

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0063

Keywords
lexical bundles, formulaic language, judicial decisions, specialized discourse, legal linguistics, pattern-driven research

© 2021 Miroslav Zumrík, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Lexical Bundles in the Corpus of Slovak Judicial Decisions

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 705 - 718

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0063

Keywordslexical bundles, formulaic language, judicial decisions, specialized discourse, legal linguistics, pattern-driven research

© 2021 Miroslav Zumrík, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
lexical bundles, formulaic language, judicial decisions, specialized discourse, legal linguistics, pattern-driven research