Development and Use of a Corpus Tailored for Legal English Learning

Autor/inn/en	Skier, Jason; Vibulphol, Jutarat
Titel	Development and Use of a Corpus Tailored for Legal English Learning
Quelle	In: PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 52 (2016), S.237-254 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0125-2488
Schlagwörter	Computational Linguistics; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English for Special Purposes; North American English; Court Litigation; Language Usage; Laws; Legal Education (Professions); Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Computer Software; Phrase Structure; Teaching Methods; Validity; Specialists; College Faculty; Thailand (Bangkok) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Amerikanisches Englisch; Rechtsstreit; Sprachgebrauch; Law; Recht; Juristischer Beruf; Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Phrasenstruktur; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Gültigkeit; Fakultät
Abstract	While corpus linguistics has been applied towards many specific academic purposes, reports are few regarding its use to facilitate learning of legal English by non-native English speakers. Specialized corpora are required because legal English often differs significantly from ordinary usage, with words such as bar, motion, and hearing having completely different meanings and use. This paper documents the process of creating and validating a sixteen million-word corpus of (American) legal English, and provides examples of analyses available for language learners. Written decisions and oral argument transcripts from the U.S. Supreme Court and other appellate courts were ultimately chosen to comprise the corpus due to their authentic and comprehensive use of legal jargon. Overall, this corpus demonstrates that appellate court decisions, available online, can comprise a corpus tailored for legal English learning. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Chulalongkorn University Language Institute. Prem Purachatra Building, Chulalongkom University, Phayathai Road, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand. Tel: +66-2-218-6092; Fax: +66-2-218-6104; e-mail: pasaa.editor@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.culi.chula.ac.th/Publicationsonline/home_p1.php
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01