Design and compilation of a legal English corpus based on UK law reportsthe process of making decisions

  1. María José Marín Pérez 1
  2. Camino Rea Rizzo 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Murcia
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    Universidad de Murcia

    Murcia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03p3aeb86

Book:
Las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones: presente y futuro en el análisis de corpus: Actas del III Congreso Internacional de Lingüistica de Corpus
  1. María Luisa Carrió Pastor (ed. lit.)
  2. Miguel Ángel Candel Mora (ed. lit.)

Publisher: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia = Universitat Politècnica de València

ISBN: 978-84-694-6225-6

Year of publication: 2011

Pages: 101-110

Congress: Congreso Internacional de Lingüistica de Corpus (3. 2011. Valencia)

Type: Conference paper

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Abstract

The scarceness of reliable specific teaching materials and corpora within the field of legal English has led us, as lecturers of this ESP variety, to engage into corpus design. The available corpora existing do not satisfy our needs as we intend to establish the core vocabulary of this ESP branch, so we have opted for creating our own, BLaRC: British Law Report Corpus. The selected genre are law reports (judicial decisions) as they stand at the very basis of common law systems (uncodified) where the existing jurisprudence plays a determining role. The purpose of this paper is thus to show and justify the decisions we have made in its process of compilation and design.

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