PT Journal
AU Honova, Z
TI Nominal condensation in legal texts of the European Union
SO Romanica Olomucensia
PY 2014
BP 43
EP 50
VL 26
IS 1
DI 10.5507/ro.2014.004
DE nominal condensation; nominalisation; legal language; legislative discourse; specialized language; specialized text.
AB The article deals with the issue of nominal condensation, a characteristic feature of specialized discourse, and is based on legal texts of the EU institutions. It emphasises the specificity of legal texts as such and aims to compare the level of nominalisation in parallel French and Czech versions of judgements pronounced by the Court of Justice of the European Union. It tries to find the reason why the degree of nominalisation is also considerably high in Czech versions of these texts.
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