Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse
Edited by Teresa Fanego and Paula Rodríguez-Puente
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 91] 2019. vii, 294 pp.
Paula Rodríguez-Puente
List of John Benjamins publications for which Paula Rodríguez-Puente plays a role.
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Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Forensic & legal linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2024 Is legal discourse really “outside the ravages of time”? A diachronic analysis of nominalizations in British judicial decisions Unlocking the History of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types, Caon, Luisella, Moragh S. Gordon and Thijs Porck (eds.), pp. 101–128 | Chapter
This study explores word-based nominalizations between 1535 and 2021 in legal decisions. Nominalizations and the passive are usually proscribed in contemporary legal drafting manuals. Recent research has shown that there has been a notable reduction in the use of the passive, probably aided by… read more
2022 New methods for analysing diachronic suffix competition across registers: How - ity gained ground on - ness in Early Modern English Corpus studies of language through time: Special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:4 (2022), McEnery, Tony, Gavin Brookes and Isobelle Clarke (eds.), pp. 506–528 | Article
This paper tracks stylistic variation in the use of two roughly synonymous suffixes, the Romance -ity and the native -ness, during the Early Modern English period. We seek to verify from a statistical viewpoint the claims of Rodríguez-Puente (2020), who reports on a decrease of -ness in favour… read more
2021 Chapter 10. Nominalizations in Early Modern English: A cross-register perspective Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation, Seoane, Elena and Douglas Biber (eds.), pp. 259–290 | Chapter
This chapter explores word-based nominalizations in Early Modern English, a crucial period in the expansion of the English vocabulary. Nine Romance and native suffixes are traced in eighteen registers, thus covering a wide variety of registers along the formal-informal and speech-written continua. read more
2019 Chapter 1. “Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer?” English legal discourse past and present Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse, Fanego, Teresa and Paula Rodríguez-Puente (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Chapter
2019 Chapter 8. Interpersonality in legal written discourse: A diachronic analysis of personal pronouns in law reports, 1535 to present Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse, Fanego, Teresa and Paula Rodríguez-Puente (eds.), pp. 171–200 | Chapter
This chapter offers a diachronic analysis of the use of personal pronouns in English law reports. Results show that law reports are narrative texts with high frequencies of third person pronouns. However, markers of subjectivity, involvement and interpersonality, such as first and second person… read more
2014 Colloquialization and “decolloquialization”: Phrasal verbs in formal contexts, 1650–1990 Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English, Pfenninger, Simone E., Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier (eds.), pp. 163–186 | Article
Given that phrasal verbs are generally related to colloquial styles in Present-day English, the increase of these structures in a particular text type can be interpreted as a sign of colloquialization. Conversely, a decrease in their use may imply the development of more formal, literate features… read more