RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Lexical chunks in English and Spanish sales contracts: A corpus-based study
A1 López Arroyo, María Belén
A1 Moreno Pérez, Leticia
K1 Lingüística de contraste
K1 Inglés (lengua) - Estudio y enseñanza
K1 5505.10 Filología
K1 5705.01 Lingüística Comparada
K1 5701.12 Traducción
AB This paper focuses on the study of word combinations “of common usage” which are “lexicalized”, have “syntactic and semantic stability, may be idiomatized and carry connotations, and have an emphatic or intensifying function.” (Gläser 1994/1995, 45). Following previous research on Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) and legal phraseology, we will define, identify and classify these units in English and Spanish according to their form and meaning, using a comparable corpus of sales contracts. To carry out our study, we will focus on a number of descriptors that are commonly used within these units on the basis of the headwords they collocate with, in order to determine how specific or general they are in their form, use and meaning since this issue poses translation problems. As genres determine matters such as or terminology and phraseology, the results will be useful for specialized translators and legal drafters.
PB John Benjamins Publishing
SN 0929-9971
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/52310
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/52310
LA eng
NO Terminology: international journal of theoretical and applied issues in specialized communication, 2019, vol. 25, n. 1, p. 32-59
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 21-may-2024