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The "Word Factory" A study of the processes engaged in the formation of legal terms
No full textStudio sui processi di formazione delle parole nel linguaggio giuridico inglese. -A study of the processes engaged in the formation of legal English terms.
Handbook. Language training on the vocabulary of judicial cooperation in criminal matters.
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Text Commenting in Mediatised Legal Discourse: Evaluating Reader Understanding of (International) Criminal Law.
No full textText Commenting in Mediatized Legal Discourse:
Evaluating Reader Understanding of (International) Criminal Law
Michael S. Boyd, Università Roma Tre
Isabel Walbaum Robinson, Università Roma Tre
Abstract
This paper is based on the assumption that the often complex and impenetrable nature of legal discourse can lead to misunderstandings by non-experts. Such misunderstandings are further complicated when a foreign legal system is involved. The empirical data in the study are drawn from a ca. 400,000-word corpus of the comments written in response to a number of articles in The Guardian online about a criminal case that took place in Italy (2007-2011). The quantitative and qualitative corpus-assisted analysis aims to determine commenters’ legal lexical foci as well as to uncover instances of misuse and misrepresentation of legal concepts and the Italian criminal procedure. These misunderstandings are closely tied to the nature of on-line communication, on the one hand, and Gudykunst’s underlying concept (1995) of intercultural communication (ICC) such as Anxiety and Uncertainty Management along with ethnocentric assumptions Neuliep (2012) about what is considered optimal and what is considered inadequate legal procedure. We argue that the high frequency of certain legal terms in the comment corpus, such as, for example, the words evidence and guilty, is indicative of both a strong emotional reaction by commenters and, often, a disregard for commenters’ system-based meanings which can diverge quite considerably from source-system meanings.
Keywords: law English; text commenting; mediatized discourse; comparative legal procedure
Exploring Students' Engagement with the Curriculum in a Law Programme Taught in English at an Italian University
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Studying Law at Roma Tre (SLR3) is an academic initiative launched by the University of Rome Three in 2006-2007, giving Italian and foreign students the opportunity to learn legal content using English as the vehicular language in a multicultural context. One of the main objectives of SLR3 is to stimulate students’ interest in developing skills and professional know-how in areas in which English increasingly plays a key role as the lingua franca of commerce and trade, mergers and acquisitions, contractual agreements and international arbitration.
The first part of the presentation illustrates a case study being carried out on the programme from an English for Academic Legal Purposes (EALP) perspective. The study investigates students’ expectations and perceptions of experiences in their being inducted and socialized into studying core disciplinary subjects in law as well as learning the ways of thinking and practicing the discipline in English. The case focuses not only on knowledge of English, use of technical legal terminology, and the pragmatics of communication, but also on the implications of learning and teaching core law subjects in English in higher education. An ‘insider’ view of what actually happens in multicultural, multilingual classrooms shows significant differences in the ways students from different countries engage with the curriculum. Qualitative inquiry also gives insights into how students construct their social networks reflecting their cultural, educational, and language backgrounds.
The second part of the presentation describes direct teaching experience in SLR3 – the methods, materials, and feedback from participating students. The case method – including the Socratic Method, moot court presentations, and writing case briefs – has been welcomed by Italian and other European students as a refreshing change from the traditional lecture style. These methods and materials – and small class sizes – enhance students’ engagement by stimulating the typical competitive drive among law students. This innovative programme presents challenges for professors and students, forcing them to increase normal efforts to succeed. The overwhelming convergence of the requisite skills needed to master both law and language creates economies of scale in classes taught in law in a language other than one’s own. Thus, when students learn law in a foreign language, they are “getting two for the price of one.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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