Legal Polysemy

Exploring Polysemous Legal Terminology in English and Italian
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-3-032-46959-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

This book delves into an in-depth analysis of polysemous words in both legal English and legal Italian. Using a corpus-driven approach, it bridges the gap between legal significance and semantic nuances in the English and Italian languages and legal systems. The book provides concrete examples sourced from various legal domains and sub-genres, such as contracts, judicial decisions, and parliamentary speeches, and defines and explicates acceptable degrees of equivalence while relying on corpus data. Tapping into authentic language samples, it is unique in its genre because no other academic work has analysed legal polysemy and bilingual equivalences at both word and phrase level. It will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners in fields including legal translation, legal linguistics, comparative law, and corpus linguistics. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giampieri, Patrizia

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2 Polysemy as a linguistic phenomenon.- Chapter 3: Legal Polysemy.- Chapter 4: Corpus- and translation-driven studies on legal polysemy.- Chapter 5: Taxonomies and analyses of polysemous legal terms in English.- Chapter 6: Analysis of polysemous English terms in legal corpora.- Chapter 7: Italian equivalents of the most frequent polysemous legal terms in English.- Chapter 8: Legal polysemy in Italian.- Chapter 9: Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Patrizia Giampieri is Associate Professor of English at the University of Perugia, Italy. She holds an Msc in Applied Linguistics from Aston University, UK and a PhD in Legal Translation from the University of Malta. She has authored many academic articles on legal language, corpus-based translation, machine translation, and legal translation. She is the author of  (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). She has participated in several conferences and presented papers on legal English, legal translation and corpus-based translation.