Contrastive Semantics and Comparative Legal Terminology

Legal Analysis and Terminology

Comparative Semantics of Sin in Quran and Sociology

The specialists’ concerns in the field of culture regarding the imported sciences and negligence or perhaps moral nihilism exposure of a considerable portion of the Islamic society to sins shows the importance of exploring the meaning and concept of sin in the religious literature (Quran) in comparison with the equivalent idiomatic concept of sin in sociology and obtaining the similarities and ...

A New Approach to Contrastive Topic: Partition Semantics and Pragmatics

The purpose of the current work is to propose a more comprehensive approach to Contrastive Topic (henceforth, CT) than the existing ones. In the literature, there have been two approaches to CT proposed: one is to take CT as an information-structural discourse-regulating notion on a par with focus and the other is to analyze CT as an focus-sensitive operator with its inherent semantic and pragm...

Alignment And Extraction Of Bilingual Legal Terminology From Context Profiles

The Per-Fide Corpus : A new Resource for Corpus-Based Terminology, Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies

The Per-Fide project is a joint collaboration between researchers at the Department of Informatics and the Institute of Arts and Humanities at the University of Minho, Portugal. The acronym Per-Fide stands for Portuguese (P) in parallel with 6 languages: English (E), Russian (R), French (F), Italian (I), German/Deutsch (D) and Spanish/ Español (E). First, we expound on the role of the Per-Fide ...