SPECIALIZED PAREMIES IN BILINGUAL LEGAL LANGUAGE
Frame Semantics; Construction Grammar; Phraseologism; Power of Attorney; Glossary.
This research is part of the area of concentration on Theory and Linguistic Analysis, with emphasis on the Lexic and Terminology research line of the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the University of Brasília, and it is developed at the Center for Lexical and Terminological Studies – Centro LexTerm. The object of study are specialized paremies (SPs) in texts of Power of Attorney written in Brazilian Portuguese and United States English. Despite the recurrence of paremies in the specialized language, researches about these linguistic structures in a specific domain are scarce. The lack of studies can lead to the generalization of definitions and classifications of this phraseologism type and, consequently, imprecisions in the use, interpretation or translation. In this context, issues arise about how the SPs acquire form and meaning in the specialized language of the Power of Attorney in Portuguese and English. Therefore, we propose a theoretical and methodological model creation based on the Frames Semantics, coupled with the Constructions Grammar, aiming to analyze the morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of the SPs in order to produce a Digital Glossary of Bilingual Legal Parêmias (GPjur) for translators, professionals and students of law. We compiled the bilingual corpora for data collection to identify the most recurrent SPs through two stages, manual and digital. In addition, we observed the possible correspondents in the studied linguistic pair. We demonstrated the feasibility of combining the cognitive models to describe the internal and external particularities responsible for the SPs' cohesive functioning in legal language. With frames, we detailed the SPs conceptual structure and with constructions, we established the symbolic pairing between form and meaning. Finally, we intend to continue the selected SPs analysis, explaining the terminologization and the grammaticalization, linguistic processes which are determinant for paremies formation and function in the specialized language investigated. Hence, the discussions will make it possible to formulate the phraseological utterances definitions for organizing the GPjur macrostructure to be published on an open access electronic platform. In addition, we expect that the theoretical and methodological contributions generated in this research will contribute to the development of phraseological, terminological and terminographic studies.