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In:Multiple Perspectives on Terminological Variation
Edited by Patrick Drouin, Aline Francœur, John Humbley and Aurélie Picton
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 18] 2017
► pp. 109–130

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Chapter 5
Specialized verbs and specialized uses of verbs in a comparable corpus of judgments produced in Canada, Portugal and Brazil

Published online: 24 August 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.18.05pim
The study uses a comparable corpus of judgments produced by judges working in Canada, Portugal and Brazil to investigate the differences between specialized verbs and specialized uses of verbs as well as equivalence relations. The description of the verbs is based mainly on the theory of Frame Semantics (Fillmore 1982, 1985; Fillmore & Atkins 1992) as well as on the methodology followed by FrameNet (Ruppenhofer et al. 2010). The study shows that some verbs evoke frames that are specific to legal procedures, whereas others are not. In the first case, frames group together specialized verbs and, in the second, they group together specialized uses of verbs. In both cases, some verbs raise decoding and encoding difficulties for translators.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Variation in terminology
  • 3.Approaches to specialized verbs
  • 4.A comparable corpus of judgments
  • 5.Selection and description of the verbs
  • 6.Interlinguistic comparison
  • 7.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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