TRANSLATION AND MEANING: A CULTURAL- COGNITIVE ...

sistem RBTR naţional şi au un un cont RBTR deschis la banca
centrală naţională respectivă …”
( 32001O0003)
In either of the cases mentioned above, the role of the rheme as
definition is that of preventing any ambiguity in the interpretation of the
meaning that the text in question is meant to convey.
Additionally, the EU documents offer numerous examples of rhemes
organized as enumerations that extend over several numbered paragraphs.
These rhemes are rendered by parallel syntactic structures that all convey
information about one and the same theme:
e.g. ST: “This Directive applies to:
a) minimum periods of daily rest, weekly rest and annual leave, to breaks
and maximum weekly working time; and
b) certain aspects of night work, shift work and patterns of work.”
TT: “Prezenta directivă se aplică:
a) perioadelor minime de repaus zilnic, repaus săptămânal şi concediu
anual, precum şi pauzelor şi timpului de lucru maxim săptămânal; şi
b) anumitor aspecte ale muncii de noapte, ale muncii în schimburi şi ale
ritmului de lucru.”
(32003L0088)
Even if the rhematic arrangement illustrated above is not restricted to
the texts belonging to the EU legislation, and is present in the case of other
types of legal-administrative documents (such as, for example, the
normative documents originally written in Romanian), it highlights an
important norm of the category of texts under analysis. This happens mainly
because the feature in question makes a great contribution to the clarity and
the concision of the EU documents, creating, at the same time, a marked
impression of precision and technicality on their recipients.
3. Conclusions
As the analysis underlying the present paper indicates, the Subject
noun phrase in thematic position can be considered as representing the norm
in the case of the EU documents. The themes in these texts function like a
skeleton that holds together concepts referring to the authority which issues