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Lexical bundles in legal texts corpora – From professional needs analysis to pedagogical implications

TOMÁNKOVÁ, Veronika

Basic information

Original name

Lexical bundles in legal texts corpora – From professional needs analysis to pedagogical implications

Edition

7th Brno Conference on Linguistic Studies in English 2016, 2016

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

50300 5.3 Education

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Faculty of Education

Keywords in English

legal English; legal English communicative competence (LECC); lexical bundle (LB); structural classification of a LB; functional classification of a LB; frequency analysis; content; LB; non-content LB

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International impact
Změněno: 7/4/2017 15:18, PaedDr. Marta Holasová, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

This paper analyzes lexical bundles with the aim of determining specific features of the linguistic competence of the selected research population and drawing some pedagogical implications from the findings. The study focuses on lexical bundles retrieved from four legal genre-based corpora (Flowerdew 2005) compiled from texts submitted by respondents who are all legal professionals. In an effort to provide a more comprehensive view of lexical bundles, the phenomenon has been treated using both the conventional register analysis approach (Biber & Conrad 2009) and an approach adopted especially for legal texts by Breeze (2013). The study also attempts to submit proposals for the teaching of lexical bundles (O’Keeffe et al. 2007: 216) in the context of reading comprehension. Within the context of needs analysis, this study has been conducted as part of a larger study aiming to examine communicative competence of legal professionals from the four language skills perspective.

Links

MUNI/A/0961/2015, interní kód MU
Name: Výzkum učení a vyučování cizích jazyků (Acronym: AKTEV V)
Investor: Masaryk University, Category A