Law enforcement terminology: selection of terms in an unexplored terminology on corpus

Authors

  • Maria Izabel Plath da Costa Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
  • Cleci Regina Bevilacqua Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
  • Anna Maria Becker Maciel Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9511.v28i0p249-271

Keywords:

Terminology, Law Enforcement Terminology, Electronic Glossary Law Enforcement, Civil Police of RS, Occurence Bulletin.

Abstract

This study describes the selection of the law enforcement terminology in a corpus formed of 75,000 historic Police Occurrence Bulletins, lemmatized in the electronic glossary law enforcement of the Civil Police of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The Communicative Terminology Theory (Cabré 1999) and the Socioterminology (Gaudin 1993) support the work. The terms are selected in the program AntConc, by the keyword functionality, which are three terms that describe who commits a penal offense (suspect, accused and indicted/conducted). The key words showed the co-texts of the corpus and then some variants of keywords (individual, bandit, etc.); and also some other terms (fact, mentioned below, etc.). The glossary will be used in police information systems, and it represents a small contribution to the effectiveness of law interpretation through the social function of linguistics.

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Author Biographies

  • Maria Izabel Plath da Costa, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.

    Post-doctorate student on Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

  • Cleci Regina Bevilacqua, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.

    Linguistics professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

  • Anna Maria Becker Maciel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
    Invited professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

Published

2017-01-24

How to Cite

Costa, M. I. P. da, Bevilacqua, C. R., & Maciel, A. M. B. (2017). Law enforcement terminology: selection of terms in an unexplored terminology on corpus. TradTerm, 28, 249-271. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9511.v28i0p249-271