Resumen de Phraseological Profile of Judgments: Complex Prepositions in EU Competition Law Judgments
The chapter is aimed to raise legal practitioners’ and translators’ awareness of natural language patterns in judgments relating to Competition Law so that they are better equipped to both understand judgments with ease and to stay close to the established conventions when producing their own texts. Complex prepositions contribute largely to the phraseological profile of legal genres, thus requiring a careful examination. In particular, the chapter discusses the distribution and discourse functions of simple, marginal, compound, and, most importantly, complex prepositions in judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) relating to Competition Law. In addition, the chapter draws comparisons with the language of judgments relating to all types of subject matter under the authority of the CJEU, the language of UK judicial decisions, and general English. The results point to the marked overrepresentation of certain complex prepositions (e.g. in accordance with, according to, relating to, in order to) in the genre of EU judgments as compared to UK judicial decisions (and vice versa) and general English. Therefore, it may be claimed that the high overall distribution of complex prepositions is a distinctive feature of the genre of CJEU judgments
