Prethodno priopćenje
https://doi.org/10.32728/tab.19.2022.2
Fair wear and tear: a look into the wider context of binominal expressions
Katja Dobrić Basaneže
; Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, Hrvatska
Sažetak
This paper discusses nominal binomial expressions in legal language and investigates their wider context in order to determine if they can be classified as extended units of meaning (Sinclair 2004). The paper is based on a parallel corpus of English and Croatian legislative texts of the EU competition law designed for the purpose of the project “Training Action for Legal Practitioners: Linguistic Skills and Translation in EU Competition Law” (Ref: HT 4983). These binomial expressions have been extracted from the corpus by means of the Collocations function by using Sketchengine software. This paper begins with an analysis of the semantic relationship between the constituents of the extracted binomial expressions. It also investigates the reversibility of constituents in order to establish the degree of their formulaicity. Special focus is on the analysis of the parallel concordances of these nominal binomial expressions, which aids us in revealing their colligations, collocations, semantic preferences and semantic prosodies. The results suggest that binomial expressions can be considered as collocation bases, the wider context of which reveals their collocators. It is a common occurrence that these collocators collocate with only one of the base constituents, contributing to the foreignization (Venuti 1995) of both the original and its translation. In conclusion, a move from traditional investigations of binary collocations in the phraseology of both language for general and language for specific purposes should be taken into consideration, as well as the inclusion of adjectival and verbal binomial expressions in future research.
Ključne riječi
binomial expression; colligation; collocation; corpus analysis; extended unit of meaning; semantic preference; semantic prosody
Hrčak ID:
286710
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Datum izdavanja:
8.12.2022.
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