the legislative act, to the exact realities targeted by the legal provisions, and to the instruments used in order to achieve the actual functioning of the law. The thematization of all these central concepts, which are constantly given as reference points for the addressee, plays a major part in ensuring the clarity of this type of discourse. If, however, some other element of the clause structure is placed in theme position (i.e. especially the Adverbial Phrase), it is meant to provide either a point of orientation or some contrast. At the same time, my analysis indicates that the thematic features revealed by the Romanian translations of the EU documents are closely influenced by those of their English sources. There are also situations when the Romanian translator changes the thematic make-up of the original text, but, in most of the cases, such shifts are motivated by the translator’s desire to conform to the norms of the target-language usage and are meant to promote naturalness in the translated document. However, as illustrated earlier, my corpus also reveals instances when the translator’s change of the thematic structure does not seem to have any clear or objective motivation, and, moreover, it presents the risk of leading to difficulties of comprehension, or even of affecting the intended meaning of the original utterance. It can be concluded that, as long as the translator does not perform major changes in the thematic structure of the original text, both the English and the Romanian variants of the EU documents present the addressee with a flow of information which is quite smooth and, consequently, not very difficult to process. In other words, whether the new themes are connected to a constituent of the previous rheme or to some of the themes introduced that far, whether they refer to the topic entity or offer some perspective on it, the thematic organization characterizing the texts of the EU legislation is of great help in the identification of the topic entity and in the correct understanding of the content. References Baker, M. 1992. In Other Words. A Coursebook on Translation. London: Routledge. Bhatia, V. K. 1993. Analyzing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings. London: Longman. Brown, G. and G. Yule. 1993 (1983). Discourse Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Halliday, M. A. K. 1967. ‘Notes on transitivity and theme in English: Part 2’. In Journal of Linguistics, 3, pp. 199-244. Mathesius, V. 1942. ‘From Comparative Word Order Studies’. In Časopis pro Moderni Filoligii 28. Quirk, R., Greenbaum, S., Leech, G. and J. Svartvick. 1991 (1985). A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London and New York: Longman.
Superceanu, R. 2000. Elements of Discourse and Discourse Analysis. A Linguistic Approach. Timişoara: Orizonturi Universitare. Websites: EUR-LEX, the portal to EU law: http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/en/index.htm The site of the European Institute of Romania, translations from the EU legislation:http://www.ier.ro
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