Université de Montréal - Thèse sous forme numérique

237corpus, the action of adducing is typically carried out by the parties in the lawsuit and neverby the judge. Consider the following examples:[1] The respondent intends to file a second motion to adduce fresh evidence.[2] In its re-examination of Marissa Bowles, the Crown adduced evidence of herprior consistent statements.Although this verb has general language synonyms such as to present, we did notfind any synonym that is used as a term in the specialist field. In fact the general languagesynonyms such as to present cannot always replace or be replaced by to adduce because thenature of their actants is different (The defendant presented the defense of misidentificationbut * The defendant adduced the defense of misidentification). For all these reasons, wedecided to retain this verb because we considered that its use is specialized.5.1.3. DiscussionIn this sub-chapter we presented the results concerning the selection and validation of thePortuguese and English terms. We explained that some candidate terms in the twolanguages were eliminated either because they corresponded to part of speech ambiguitiesor because they did not meet the validation criteria. The selection and validation of termsturned out to be one of the most challenging tasks carried out in this research for two mainreasons.Firstly, the identification of terms is a problematic task in itself because there is noclear-cut and controversy-free definition of what is a term. In this research, we considered aterm as a kind of lexical unit whose meaning is related to a given subject field, but wefound that what does and does not relate to a subject field was not always self-evident. Infact, many if not most of the verbs that we selected correspond to seemingly general