2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study onParaphrases of Civil Legal Terms Based on Lay Perception
| Project/Area Number |
24653003
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Fundamental law
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| Research Institution | Takasaki City University of Economics |
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Principal Investigator |
OKAWARA Mami 高崎経済大学, 地域政策学部, 教授 (40233051)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TANAKA Makiro 明治大学, 国際日本学部, 教授 (90217076)
POWELL Richard 日本大学, 経済学部, 教授 (30277371)
KANEMITSU Hiroyuki 高崎経済大学, 地域政策学部, 教授 (90514258)
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| Research Collaborator |
MIYAZAKI Yumi 専修大学, 非常勤講師
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 法律用語 / アンケート調査 / コーパス調査 / 現代日本語書き言葉均衡コーパス / 共起語 / 複合語 / 類義 / 語源 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research project offers more comprehensible paraphrases of some Japanese civil law terms, using corpus analysis of those terms. This study selected 234 civil law terms from introductory law books and 51 terms from a questionnaire of legal experts. The study then undertook research on actual lay usage of the 234 words, using the Modern Japanese Corpus provided by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. For statistical reason 98 words were then selected from these 234 candidates. The 98 words were divided into two groups through analysis of the actual usage of those words in the corpus: 'misunderstood' terms and 'difficult' terms.
In the result, this study offers plain language explanation of the 98 words, based on their dictionary definitions, formation, etymology and legal reasoning. The study anticipates that explanation based on actual lay usage of legal terminology will be helpful to achieve better paraphrases of incomprehensible legal terminology.
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