Areas of similarity and difference in legal phraseology: collocations of key terms in UK and Polish company law

Antonio Pamies, José Manuel Pazos Bretaña and Lucía Luque Nadal (eds.) (2012) Phraseology and Discourse: Cross-Linguistic and Corpus-based Approaches. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag, pp. 225–233 The paper discusses areas of similarity and difference in the phraseology of key terms in UK and Polish company law. The analysis is based on two comparable corpora of company law legislation. Similarities are motivated by the shared COMPANY-IS-A-PERSON metaphor and related conceptual scenarios, while differences arise from their system-specific instantiations, conditions-effects scripts and linguistic restrictions