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Session 2
In: Law & Corpus Linguistics Conference (2017)
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Corpus Linguistics as a Tool in Legal Interpretation
In: BYU Law Review (2017)
Abstract: In this paper, we set out to explore conditions in which the use of large linguistic corpora can be optimally employed by judges and others tasked with construing authoritative legal documents. Linguistic corpora, sometimes containing billions of words, are a source of information about the distribution of language usage. Thus, corpora and the tools for using them are most likely to assist in addressing legal issues when the law considers the distribution of language usage to be legally relevant. As Thomas R. Lee and Stephen C. Mouritsen have so ably demonstrated in earlier work, corpus analysis is especially helpful when the legal standard for construction is the ordinary meaning of the document’s terms. We argue here that four issues should be addressed before determining that corpus analysis is likely to be maximally convincing. First, the legal issue before the court must be about the distribution of linguistic facts. Second, the court must decide what makes an interpretation “ordinary.” Third, if one wishes to search a corpus to glean the ordinary meaning of a term, one must decide in advance what to search. Fourth, there are different reasons as to why a particular meaning might present a weak showing in a corpus search, and these need to be understood. Each of these issues is described and discussed.
Keyword: Applied Linguistics; Constitutional Law; Legal Profession
URL: https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3128&context=lawreview
https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/lawreview/vol2017/iss6/5
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Kaunisto (2007): Variation and Change in the Lexicon: A Corpus-based Analysis of Adjectives in English Ending in "-ic" and "-ical". New York: Rodopi [Rezension]
In: Corpora. - Edinburgh : Univ. Press 7 (2012) 2, 215-218
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Matthew S. McGlone and Mark L. Knapp (eds): The Interplay of Truth and Deception: New Agendas in Communication. New York: Routledge, 2010, XVIII + 198 pp. [Rezension]
In: Discourse & communication. - Los Angeles [u.a.] : Sage 6 (2012) 3, 349-351
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Linguistic Manifestations of Power in Suicide Notes : an Investigation of Personal Pronouns
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Identifying interpersonal stance in threatening discourse: an appraisal analysis
In: Discourse studies. - London [u.a.] : Sage 13 (2011) 1, 27-46
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BOOK NOTES
In: Language in society. - London [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press 39 (2010) 5, 704-705
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Ideologies of violence: a corpus and discourse analytic approach to stance in threatening communications
In: The international journal of speech, language and the law. - London : Equinox Publishing 17 (2010) 2, 299-302
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"Diversity" as enacted in US immigration politics and law: a corpus-based approach
In: Discourse & society. - London [u.a.] : Sage 20 (2009) 2, 223-240
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