“Acting in Accordance with the Ordinary Legislative Procedure…”: Metadiscourse in EU Regulations on Immigration

The ongoing Pan-European integration process has profoundly influenced the nature of European law and its development, demanding a review “the ways how language […] is materialized” (Gibová, 2009, p. 192). EU multilingualism thus becoming an intricate concept since “EU translation Europe” 192) encompassing supranational view world conveyed in EU-wide legislation. Very much line with this assumption, taking into account teaching experience Specialised Translation Masters’ courses training would-be professional translators, study examines corpus Parliament Regulations on immigration. In order to understand whether dissimilarities and/or congruencies occur between working language, i.e., English, Italian versions, metadiscourse framework by Hyland (2005), comprising both interactive interactional features, used as point departure for analysis parallel texts. produced institutions transmitted English “procedural language” (Wagner, Bech, & Martίnez, 2012) well have been scrutinized quantitatively qualitatively, draw precious pedagogical implications studies practice future qualified trained translators.