法国和加拿大的法律法语措辞与法律普及:语料库辅助分析

IF 0.9 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Languages Pub Date : 2024-03-19 DOI:10.3390/languages9030107
Manon Bouyé, Christopher Gledhill
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普及法律知识是平等诉诸法律和司法的关键问题。法律话语因其晦涩难懂的术语和迂回曲折的措辞而饱受诟病,这尤其引发了英语国家的 "通俗语言运动"。在加拿大,由于官方的双语政策,"平实语言 "的概念自 20 世纪 80 年代起就开始应用于法语,而在法国,这一概念直到最近才被讨论。在本文中,我们将研究在法语普及背景下,平实语言改写对法律用语的影响。我们研究的第一个目的是了解法国出版的平语文本是否比加拿大法文文本包含更多的法律用语痕迹。我们的第二个目标是确定是否可以跨体裁和跨语言识别 "平实语言短语"。为此,我们比较了两个用法语撰写的专家对专家的法律文本语料库(分别由法国出版的立法文本和加拿大最高法院出版的司法文本组成)和两个声称用普通法语为非专业读者撰写的文本语料库(指导非专业人士了解法国法律和行政程序的文本和加拿大最高法院的判决摘要)。我们使用 n-grams 提取并讨论了这些语料库中出现的模式。我们的分析特别依赖于 "词汇语法模式 "的概念,它被定义为由词汇和语法项目的重复序列组成的有意义文本的最小单位。然后,我们确定了重复出现的词汇语法模式样本及其话语功能。
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The Phraseology of Legal French and Legal Popularisation in France and Canada: A Corpus-Assisted Analysis
The popularisation of legal knowledge is a critical issue for equal access to law and justice. Legal discourse has been justly criticised for its obscure terminology and convoluted phrasing, which notably led to the Plain Language Movement in English-speaking countries. In Canada, the concept of Plain Language has been applied to French since the 1980s due to the official policy of bilingualism, while the concept has only been recently discussed in France. In this paper, we examine the impact of Plain Language rewriting on legal phraseology in French popularisation contexts. The first aim of our study is to see if plain texts published in France contain more traces of legal phraseology than French Canadian texts. Our second objective is to determine if a ‘phraseology of plain language’ can be identified across genres and languages. To do this, we compare two corpora of expert-to-expert legal texts written in French—made up, respectively, of legislative texts published in France and judicial texts published by the Supreme Court of Canada—with two corpora of texts that are claimed to have been written in Plain French Language for a non-expert readership—texts that guide laypersons through legal and administrative processes in France and summaries of decisions by the Supreme Court of Canada. Using n-grams, we extract and discuss the patterns that emerge from the corpora. In particular, our analyses rely on the concept of ‘lexico–grammatical patterns’, defined as the minimal unit of meaningful text made up of recurrent sequences of lexical and grammatical items. We then identify a sample of recurring lexico–grammatical patterns and their discursive functions.
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Languages Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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