La corrupción en derecho europeo:un estudio cualitativo y ontológico de los delitos y su traducción del inglés al español
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Universidad de Murcia
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- María Luisa Carrió Pastor (coord.)
- Josefa Contreras Fernández (coord.)
- Françoise Olmo Cazevieille (coord.)
- Hanna Skorczynska Sznajder (coord.)
- Inmaculada Tamarit Vallés (coord.)
- Debra Westall Pixton (coord.)
Publisher: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia = Universitat Politècnica de València
ISBN: 978-84-694-6226-3
Year of publication: 2011
Pages: 229-240
Congress: Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos (10. 2011. Valencia)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
Corruption of politicians is perceived as a major issue in Europe, and particularly in Spain (Heywood, 2007; Jiménez, 2009). This anxiety is reflected in the Corruption Perceptions (CP) indexes obtained from the surveys conducted by the non-governmental organization Transparency International (TI). Furthermore, it has been materialized in the writing and the implementation of several legal documents for fighting against Europe-wide corruption. The goal of this paper is to undertake a qualitative study of the criminal terminology used in those documents —specifically in the UN Criminal Convention (2005) and the GRECO report for Spain (2009) and UK (2007)— by means of the application of the lexical databases WordNet and EuroWordnet. Our ultimate aim is to find the parallels and the asymmetries in the usage of those terms of art in English and in Spanish within the UN legal context.