ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of the book. The book presents some of the latest developments in the study of the phenomenon of phraseology in legal and institutional discourse. It is an attempt to continue, update and extend different avenues of research signalled in our earlier edited publication of a special issue Legal Phraseology Today. A Corpus-Based View in Fachsprache: The International Journal of Specialised Communication, in 2015. A British linguist, John Sinclair's ideas provided inspiration for a new approach to phraseology which favours bottom-up methods of identifying lexical co-occurrences. The book provides fresh and compelling evidence that corpora and corpus linguistics techniques remain the driving force behind much of the current research into legal phraseology. The languages included cover a range of European legal languages reflecting a diversity of legal systems and legal institutions.
