This project aims at filling the existing gap between the philological studies combining legal language characterisation and the cultural and social implications of immigration, all from a multilingual ANGLE (English, Italian, French and Spanish).
To meet this social and linguistic demand, this research analyses sociolinguistic aspects and cultural implications coming from the uses of lexis and phraseology in legal and administrative texts in the field of immigration. It will focus on the discoursive typologies with the highest frequency of use as well as the rhetorical strategies which characterise them. Our starting point will be the compilation, tagging and annotation of a multilingual corpus comprising a collection of representative documents used in immigration (UE and non-UE citizens), issued by the different Public Administrations and institutions in Spain, UK, France and Italy, ranging from 2007 to 2011.
The main goals of this study are:
1. Compilation and organisation of legal-administrative binding documents for immigrants in all the countries involved.
2. Contrastive analysis of all those terminological, phraseological and discoursive aspects which can help us shape the cultural identity of administrators and immigrants.
3. Multilingual study of the legal-administrative language analysed in the research corpus textual typology.
4. Contrastive characterisation of the foreign user and cultural implications.
The project, apart from profiling the the state-of-the-art in the linguistic fields mentioned, will contribute to the definition of the immigrant in each society, encouraging the debate on solidarity from a linguistic perspective.
languages, including the analysis of research articles in disciplines as diverse as Biomedicine and Computing, on the one hand, and overlapping disciplines such as in Social Sciences, on the other, all with high relevance to English for Academic Purposes, and English for specific Purposes. The volume offers empirical evidence obtained from corpus-based analyses of language, both from diachronic as well as synchronic perspectives, on topics such as the role of mother tongue in professional writing, the analysis of conference abstracts as a genre, or the analysis of visual data transfer. This collection addresses issues such as the implementation of lexicons for specialised language learning, and the development of ontologies to research language patterns. The volume thus provides a rich repertoire of research methodologies, in-depth analyses of specialised discourses, and the identification and discussion of relevant pedagogic issues.