Abstract
With the development of Teaching Chinese as an International Language and the professionalization trend of Chinese learning, legal Chinese becomes more and more important. To support the legal Chinese teaching and provide Chinese learners, Chinese teachers and other legal workers with authentic data, this paper constructs a legal corpus, which contains 35 legal texts of Mainland China. This study automatically segments the texts into words and manually checks all the segmentation results. Besides, through using the quantitative and qualitative analysis methods, this paper analyzes the common vocabulary of legal Chinese, analyzes the features of legal Chinese, compares the differences between the common vocabulary of legal Chinese and that of the international Chinese teaching, and compares the differences of the common meaning between legal Chinese words and common words in international Chinese vocabulary syllabus. This study also makes reference to the classification of Chinese word level in The Syllabus of Chinese Vocabulary and Characters Levels [18] to classify the words in the legal corpus and explores the application of this corpus in international Chinese teaching. This study finds that there are many differences between legal Chinese and general Chinese, in terms of the common vocabulary and the common meaning of words. So, it can be seen that the legal vocabulary has particularity in the teaching. We cannot directly utilize the existing vocabulary teaching methods to the teaching of legal Chinese vocabulary. Therefore, this paper puts forward several solutions for solving this problem.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Quan Li: Teaching Chinese for Specific Purposes and Its Textbook Compilation (
). Applied Linguistics Journal 8(3), 111–112(2011).Yue Zhao: Design of Business Chinese Course System Based on Target and Object Differences (
). International Chinese Language Education Development and Research Journal (4), 30-37(2007).Yaofeng Yue: Course Design and Textbook Writing for Chinese learning beginner of American legal profession (
). Minzu University of China Professional master ‘s degree thesis (2013).Dan Yang: A Study of Legal Vocabulary in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (
). Heilongjiang University master ‘s degree thesis (2012).China National Leading Group for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language: The Graded Chinese Syllabics Characters and Words for The Application of Teaching Chinese to The Speakers of Other Language (National Standard, Application and Interpretation) (
). Beijing Language and Culture University Press, Beijing China (2010).Yihua Sun, Guangran Zhou: Legal linguistics (
). China University of Political Science and Law Publisher, Beijing China, 2-3(1997).Yun Liu: The Construction of Corpus in the Study of Legal Linguistics (
). Journal of Language and Literature studies 3(3), 9-11(2015).Haiyan Yang: Compilation of Forensic Corpus (
). Terminology Standardization & Information Technology Journal 3(1), 40-43(2007).Ruina Chen: A Review of Corpus-based Legal Languages Studies (
). Journal of Guandong University of Foreign Studies 7(4), 20-25 (2015).Hongren Sun, Jianding Yang: Construction of Parallel Corpus of China’ s Legal Documents: Philosophy, Processes and Functions (
). Journal of Shaoxing University 3(2), 48-51 (2010).Ting Jiang, Jin Wen: A Corpus Basic Study of Modal Verbs in Chinese Legislative Language (
). Journal of Southwest University for Nationalities 1(1), 195-199 (2012).Beiping Song: The Construction of the First “Legal Chinese Corpus” in China (
). Contemporary Rhetoric Journal 1(1), 25-29 (2008).Jinbang Du, Hongxiu Luo: Information-Based Legal corpus and Its Use in Legal Discourse Analysis (
). Journal of Yunmeng 1(1), 135-140 (2013).Jingwen Zhu: The Socialist Legal System with Chinese Characteristics : Its Structure, Features and Trends (
). Social Sciences in China Journal (3), 20-39 (2011).Ministry of Justice of the People ‘s Republic of China: National Judicial Examination Outline (
). Law Press China, Beijing China, 1-231(2016).Huiting Luo, Shan Wang: The Construction and Application of The Legal corpus of Mainland China (
). Paper presented at The 18th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW2017), Leshan Normal University, Leshan, Sichuan, China, (2017).Yan Zhang: An Analysis of the Present Situation of the Use of Judicial Language in China (
). Edge Law Forum (
) (2), 76-80 (2007).Ming’an Jiang: Administrative Law and Administrative Litigation Law (
). Peking University Press & High Education Press, Beijing China (2015).Examination Center of The National Chinese Proficiency Test Committee: The Syllabus of Chinese Vocabulary and Characters’ Levels (
). Economic Science Press, Beijing China (2001).Hongying Liu: Legal linguistics (
). Peking University Press, Beijing China (2003).Falian Zhang: Cultural Factors in Legal Translation (
). Chinese Translators Journal (6), 48(2009).Zhenyu Li: New Theory of Legal Linguistics (
). China Procuratorate Press, Beijing China (2006).Wenxin Zhang: Jurisprudence (
). China Renmin University Press, Beijing China (2008).Taiping Zhang: Legal Chinese - Commercial Orientation (
). Peking University Press, Beijing China (2007).Ruojiang Wang: Chinese Legal Chinese Course (
). Peking University Press, Beijing China (2007).Jian Zhou, Haiyan Xie: On Chinese Word Boundary Parsing Ability of Foreign Students (
). Chinese Language Learning 4(2), 70-71(2007).Naigang Zhai: The Construction of Special Chinese System (
). Shanghai University of Engineering Science Research on Education (2), 44 (2009).Donghai Wang, Jie Wang: Construction for Research Resources of Legal Linguistics (
). Journal of CUPL (4), 115-116 (2008).Jie Wang: The Research of Legal Language in Chinese Mainland from the Legislative Era to the Era of Amendment to Law (
). Applied Linguistics 11(4),6-7 (2010).Huiting Luo, Shan Wang. The Transitional Sentences in the Language of Law – Take “dàn/dànshì” Sentences for Example (
). Paper presented at The International Linguistic Association 62nd Annual Conference, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (2017).
). Applied Linguistics Journal 8(3), 111–112(2011).
). International Chinese Language Education Development and Research Journal (4), 30-37(2007).
). Minzu University of China Professional master ‘s degree thesis (2013).
). Heilongjiang University master ‘s degree thesis (2012).
). Beijing Language and Culture University Press, Beijing China (2010).
). China University of Political Science and Law Publisher, Beijing China, 2-3(1997).
). Journal of Language and Literature studies 3(3), 9-11(2015).
). Terminology Standardization & Information Technology Journal 3(1), 40-43(2007).
). Journal of Guandong University of Foreign Studies 7(4), 20-25 (2015).
). Journal of Shaoxing University 3(2), 48-51 (2010).
). Journal of Southwest University for Nationalities 1(1), 195-199 (2012).
). Contemporary Rhetoric Journal 1(1), 25-29 (2008).
). Journal of Yunmeng 1(1), 135-140 (2013).
). Social Sciences in China Journal (3), 20-39 (2011).
). Law Press China, Beijing China, 1-231(2016).
). Paper presented at The 18th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW2017), Leshan Normal University, Leshan, Sichuan, China, (2017).
). Edge Law Forum (
) (2), 76-80 (2007).
). Peking University Press & High Education Press, Beijing China (2015).
). Economic Science Press, Beijing China (2001).
). Peking University Press, Beijing China (2003).
). Chinese Translators Journal (6), 48(2009).
). China Procuratorate Press, Beijing China (2006).
). China Renmin University Press, Beijing China (2008).
). Peking University Press, Beijing China (2007).
). Peking University Press, Beijing China (2007).
). Chinese Language Learning 4(2), 70-71(2007).
). Shanghai University of Engineering Science Research on Education (2), 44 (2009).
). Journal of CUPL (4), 115-116 (2008).
). Applied Linguistics 11(4),6-7 (2010).
). Paper presented at The International Linguistic Association 62nd Annual Conference, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (2017).Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 Springer International Publishing AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Luo, H., Wang, S. (2018). The Construction and Application of The Legal Corpus. In: Wu, Y., Hong, JF., Su, Q. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10709. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73573-3_41
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73573-3_41
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-73572-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-73573-3
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)