A Study on the English Court Interpreter Education based on Corpus Stylistic Methodology

Jeong Mok Seo
2016 Asia-Pacific Journal of Educational Management Research  
The legal cases and the court interpreting are different in forms because the former is in the form of text and the latter is in the form of discourse. However, their plots for legal affairs, legal terminology and stylistic features are similar, and the application of legal cases to court interpreter education can be effective. Corpus stylistic methodology consists of the qualitative and the quantitative analyses. The qualitative analysis investigates the stylistic features of corpus while the
more » ... uantitative analysis provides the data which can be used directly in the court interpreter education by analyzing the corpus with such apparatuses as frequency, concordance, collocation and n-gram. The importance of this study lies in the fact that legal cases made up of legal terminology, texts with legal styles and general texts are analyzed based on the corpus stylistic methodology, and an effective methodology of applying the analyzed data to the court interpreter education is proposed for the better court interpreter education.
doi:10.21742/ajemr.2016.1.27 fatcat:suxauokhuvhdfigg57nxwpeqxy