A dictionary of legal English collocations as an aid for mastering the legal English genre

Mroczyńska, Katarzyna

A dictionary of legal English collocations as an aid for mastering the legal English genre

dc.contributor.author	Mroczyńska, Katarzyna
dc.date.accessioned	2024-05-17T11:09:03Z
dc.date.available	2024-05-17T11:09:03Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description.abstract	The article begins with a brief overview of collocations and their features as being central to legal language and, as such, worth studying, especially in view of the fact that legal language studies tend to be mostly interested in terminology rather than phraseology. To bridge this gap, the article offers a tool for legal English learners, i.e. the dictionary of legal English collocations based on judgments of the UK Supreme Court. Our dictionary project is aimed at analysing the corpus we created, using Sketch Engine software, a cutting-edge lexicographic tool which enables the uploading and exploration of users’ own corpora. The project will focus on analysing bipartite legal English collocations appearing in the corpus. The next stage of the project will be the preparation of the final product of our research, i.e. a dictionary of legal English collocations. We believe that such a dictionary will prove a useful aid for mastering the conceptual structure of legal English.
dc.identifier.citation	"Linguistics Beyond and Within", 2020, Vol. 6, pp. 130-141
dc.identifier.doi	10.31743/lingbaw.11836
dc.identifier.issn	2450-5188
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/7087
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo KUL
dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	collocation
dc.subject	dictionary compiling
dc.subject	legal English
dc.title	A dictionary of legal English collocations as an aid for mastering the legal English genre
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article