PHRASEOLOGY IN CRIMINAL JUDGMENTS: A CORPUS STUDY OF ORIGINAL VS. TRANSLATED ITALIAN

Abstract

This paper presents the methodology and the preliminary results of a monolingual pilot study conducted within the framework of an ongoing interdisciplinary doctoral thesis focused on a subgenre of judicial texts, namely criminal judgments, in English, Spanish and Italian. The study compares the use of phraseologisms in a monolingual comparable  corpus  of  Italian judgments  delivered  by  the  national  Supreme  Court (“Corte di Cassazione”), and judgments delivered at a supranational level (the “Court of  Justice  of  the  European  Union”  and  the  “European  Court  of  Human  Rights”) translated into Italian.