Université de Montréal - Thèse sous forme numérique

viTable of Contents1. Introduction .................................................................................................................... 11.1. Statement of the problem ....................................................................................... 11.2. Objectives of the research ...................................................................................... 31.3. Structure of the thesis ............................................................................................. 42. The state of the art .......................................................................................................... 72.1. Legal language ....................................................................................................... 82.1.1. Characteristics ................................................................................................ 92.1.1.1. Law and language ...................................................................................... 92.1.1.2. Law and culture ........................................................................................ 112.1.1.3. (Un)translatability .................................................................................... 122.1.2. Genres .......................................................................................................... 152.1.2.1. Definition of genre ................................................................................... 152.1.2.2. Legal genres ............................................................................................. 182.1.2.3. Judgments ................................................................................................. 212.1.2.4. Genres, corpus design and terminology interpretation ............................ 262.2. Equivalence .......................................................................................................... 282.2.1. Definitions of equivalence ........................................................................... 292.2.1.1. Langue and parole ................................................................................... 322.2.1.2. Concepts and designations ....................................................................... 352.2.1.3. Similarity and interchangeability ............................................................. 362.2.1.4. Semantic content and collocational context ............................................. 392.2.1.5. Equivalence types..................................................................................... 452.2.1.6. Creation and discovery ............................................................................. 502.2.2. Equivalence problems .................................................................................. 512.2.3. Qualitative and quantitative discrimination of equivalents .......................... 572.2.4. Methodologies for establishing equivalence ................................................ 642.3. Approaches to specialized verbs .......................................................................... 72