Terminology evolution and legal development

Ni, Shifeng; Cheng, Liying; Sin, King Kui

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“…The relationship between time and space is interdependent and inseparable, as Bakhtin (1981) contends that "they may be interwoven with, replace or oppose one another, contradict one another or find themselves in ever more complex interrelationships" (252). Some scholars (Morson and Emerson, 1990;Sandywell, 1998) hold that a series of intersecting space and time coexist in a dialogic relationship with one another rather than the idea of an absolute universal time or history. From a holistic point of view, whether in cyclical time of ancient laws or in linear time of modern laws, whether in real place space as the legal existence dimension or in virtual field space as the legal content, the power relationship between legal subjects maintains unchanged at a stage.…”

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Tempo-spatial construction in human-law-society triangle from the perspective of cognitive semiotics

Cheng,

Xu,

2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Time and space, habitually seen as the human psychological background, are increasingly being studied as the cognitive foreground for the development and evolution of matters. Via applying the corpus-based method based on the self-complied corpora of the US, the UK, the EU and Chinese data protection laws, this study examines the basic logic framework of time and space, including human psychological representation, semiotic essence, and function, seeking to present a holistic landscape of tempo-spatial construction in humanity, law and society from the perspective of cognitive semiotics. It finds that the human psychological representations in the tempo-spatial construction process contain cyclical time, linear time, place space and field space; the tempo-spatial essence is to express semiotic meanings through social dialogue and power negotiation among legal subjects in social contexts; and the tempo-spatial functions are manifested in mapping cognitive thinking mode of humanity and constructing law and society. It can be argued that legal discourse is the result of the tempo-spatial dialogue between legal subjects that depends on the interaction between society and its members and the overall evolution of its meaning interpretation; the tempo-spatial construction in human-law-society triangle is thus a typical intersemiotic operation. This study demonstrates the utility of sign of time and sign of space as a cognitive perspective in discourse construction and maps the strong interdependence between humanity, law and society.

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Tempo-spatial construction in human-law-society triangle from the perspective of cognitive semiotics

Cheng,

Xu,

2023

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Mapping terminological variation and ideology in data protection laws

Pei

Cheng

2020

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This study aims to deal with the relationship between terminological variation and ideology by examining the system of terminology and the defined individual terms in data protection legislation. With two self-compiled corpora incorporating data protection laws in the United States and the European Union respectively, we adopt a corpus-assisted approach as an effective toolkit to generate a general profile of the system of legal terminology on the one hand and identify the defined legal terms in the two corpora on the other. This study, based on Van Dijk’s (1998) multidisciplinary approach to ideology, seeks to unravel the underlying ideological configurations behind the variation of legal terminology. The findings show that one plausible – though certainly not definitive – interpretation of the variation in legal terminology in the data protection domain lies in the distinct ideological stances imposed by such discourse communities as lawmakers, judges as well as the president and the party in power. The ideological investigation of terminology is a significant aspect of the study of variation phenomena. It is argued that the ideologically variable slants and historical experiences, as the contextual constraints on the ideological beliefs, may contribute to accounting for the spatial and temporal variation of legal terminology.

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Review of Li & Hope (2021): Terminology Translation in Chinese Contexts: Theory and Practice

2021

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Terminology evolution and legal development

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Tempo-spatial construction in human-law-society triangle from the perspective of cognitive semiotics

Tempo-spatial construction in human-law-society triangle from the perspective of cognitive semiotics

Mapping terminological variation and ideology in data protection laws

Review of Li & Hope (2021): Terminology Translation in Chinese Contexts: Theory and Practice

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