Exploring Phraseology in EU Legal Discourse
Exploring Phraseology in EU Legal Discourse

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the present article is to showcase EU legal discourse as a unique phenomenon of supranational specialized communication and on the basis of authentic data analysis identify specific lexical items with a focus on multi-word expressions while considering their structure and function in the analysed text. The present analysis consists in researching a selected monolingual EU Directive in its English language version while using a mixed method approach. The results of analysis indicate that the EU Directive analysed in the presented structural and functional study contains a large proportion of multi-word expressions distinctive for legal language while adhering to the specific distributional patterns regarding the different structural and functional categories of lexical bundles. The article also gives an overview of contemporary scholars’ research accomplished in institutional-legal discourse and translation.

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