Open AccessA corpus-assisted SFL approach to individuation in the European Parliament: the case of Sánchez Presedo’s original and translated repertoires*
Author(s) -
María Calzada-Pérez
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
meta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1492-1421
pISSN - 0026-0452
DOI - 10.7202/1073640ar
Subject(s) - individuation , parliament , section (typography) , realisation , representation (politics) , linguistics , systemic functional linguistics , presentation (obstetrics) , sociology , corpus linguistics , computer science , epistemology , cognitive science , psychology , philosophy , political science , psychoanalysis , law , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics , politics , radiology , operating system
The present paper proposes a synergic approach between systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and corpus linguistics (CL) in order to explore (original and translated) individuation (and its associated concepts of realisation and instantiation). After a brief introduction (Section 1) and presentation of SFL-related notions (Section 2), the paper discusses the methodological path that is followed in describing the representation of one case of individuation in the European Parliament, that of Spanish Social-Democrat Sánchez Presedo (Section 3). In a largely qualitative use of CL, the paper examines the profile of the speaker’s individuation, stemming from his published/instantiated original interventions in EP proceedings (Section 4). It then identifies the similarities and differences between this published profile and its translated re-instantiation (Section 5), ultimately drawing conclusions after an analytical venture (Section 6).