LEXICAL BUNDLES IN LEGAL TEXTS CORPORA – SELECTION, CLASSIFICATION AND PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

Voice Analysis in English and Persian Persuasive Texts: Pedagogical implications in focus

The main purpose of this study is to investigate how voice is realized by Iranian EFL learners in persuasive English and Persian text types. This discourse-related notion is a required criterion for writing acceptable English. However, L2 learners from cultures other than English might face problems in realizing it, or even ignore it all through their writing. In this connection, the present st...

Voice Analysis in English and Persian Persuasive Texts: Pedagogical implications in focus

The main purpose of this study is to investigate how voice is realized by Iranian EFL learners in persuasive English and Persian text types. This discourse-related notion is a required criterion for writing acceptable English. However, L2 learners from cultures other than English might face problems in realizing it, or even ignore it all through their writing. In this connection, the present st...

Building Corpora for the Philological Study of Swiss Legal Texts

We describe the construction of two corpora in the domain of Swiss legal texts: The DS21 corpus is based on the Collection of Swiss Law Sources and contains historical legal texts from the early Middle Ages up to 1798; the Swiss Legislation Corpus (SLC) is based on the Classified Compilation of Swiss Federal Legislation and contains all current Swiss federal laws. The paper summarizes the key p...

Classification of Short Legal Lithuanian Texts

Statistical analysis of parliamentary roll call votes is an important topic in political science because it reveals ideological positions of members of parliament (MP) and factions. However, it depends on the issues debated and voted upon. Therefore, analysis of carefully selected sets of roll call votes provides a deeper knowledge about MPs. However, in order to classify roll call votes accord...

voice analysis in english and persian persuasive texts: pedagogical implications in focus