Legal English: Macrostructural analysis of digital corpus of Scottish court rulings

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Scotland, judgments, macrostructure, corpus analysis

Abstract

The main purpose of this article is a research of a digital corpus of 25 Scottish judgments in order to establish certain macrostructural parameters. Such aim wants to establish certain linguistic parameters that may unify the great divergence of the Scottish judgments by means of the explanation of the macrostructural sections and their contents within the Scottish judgment

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Francisco Gody Tena, Dr, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Francisco Godoy Tena, Profesor en el Grado de Traducción e Interpretación de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid durante 9 años. Doctorado Cum Laude en junio de 2017. Docencia en Traducción Jurídica-Judicial inversa (español-inglés), Traducción Científico-Técnica directa (inglés-español) y Traducción General directa e inversa (español-inglés-español), entre otras. Ha publicado diversos artículos de investigación en Traducción Jurídico-Judicial. De igual modo, ha presentado varias ponencias en Congresos realizados en Alcalá de Henares, Vigo, Madrid y Olomouc, entre otros. En la actualidad es miembro del Grupo de Investigación UAM TransPoliLex ("Léxico, Discurso y Traducción Jurídico-Policial en Contextos Multilingües").

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Published

2020-04-30

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Gody Tena, F. (2020). Legal English: Macrostructural analysis of digital corpus of Scottish court rulings. Revista De Lenguas Para Fines Específicos, 26(1), 39–50. Retrieved from https://ojsspdc.ulpgc.es/ojs/index.php/LFE/article/view/1233

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Vol. 26 No. 1 (2020): Revista de lenguas para fines específicos

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Sección Monográfica/Special Issue

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