Chinese legal texts – Quantitative Description
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https://doi.org/10.4312/ala.7.1.77-87Keywords:
Chinese language, written Chinese, legal texts, corpus linguisticsAbstract
The aim of the paper is to provide a quantitative description of legal Chinese. This study adopts the approach of corpus-based analyses and it shows basic statistical parameters of legal texts in Chinese, namely the length of a sentence, the proportion of part of speech etc. The research is conducted on the Chinese monolingual corpus Hanku. The paper also discusses the issues of statistical data processing from various corpora, e.g. the tokenisation and part of speech tagging and their relevance to study of registers variation.
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Gajdoš, Ľ. (2013). Slovensko-čínsky paralelný korpus [The Slovak-Chinese parallel corpus]. Studia orientalia Slovaca, 12(2), pp. 313-317.
Gajdoš, Ľ (2016). Quantitative description of written Chinese – a preliminary corpus-based study. Studia orientalia: Victori Krupa dedicata. Bratislava: Ústav orientalistiky, pp. 62-75.
Gajdoš, Ľ., Garabík, R., Benická, J. (2016). The New Chinese Webcorpus Hanku – Origin, Parameters, Usage. Studia Orientalia Slovaca, 15(1), pp. 53-65.
Li, N. Ch., Thompson, S. (2009). Chinese. The World’s Major Languages (Second Edition), ed. by Comrie, B. Oxon: Routledge.
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NoSketch Engine [online] [10 May 2017]. Retrieved from Sketch Engine: https://www.sketchengine.co.uk.
Petrovčič, M. (2016). Word Sketches of Separable Words Liheci in Chinese. Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 6(1), 47-57.
Straňák, I. (2015). Quantitative Analysis of Function words in Chinese Legal Texts. Studia Orientalia Slovaca, 14(2), pp. 165-182.
Sun, Ch. (2006). Chinese: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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28.06.2017
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GAJDOŠ, Ľuboš. (2017). Chinese legal texts – Quantitative Description. Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 7(1), 77–87. https://doi.org/10.4312/ala.7.1.77-87
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