English and Polish judicial Eurolects: grammar patterns

The corpus has been compiled to examine the phraseological profiles of the English and Polish judicial Eurolects, using grammar patterns from a comparative, corpus- and genre-based perspective. The English and Polish judicial Eurolects are exemplified by two interconnected genres: Advocate Generals’ (AGs’) opinions and judgments issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).The focus corpus consists of a bilingual (English and Polish) genre-based corpus made up of four subcorpora, each made up of 55 texts:(1) English language versions of AGs’ opinions (807 547 tokens),(2) English language versions of Court of Justice (CJ) judgments issued following an AG’s opinion (756 829 tokens),(3) Polish language versions of AGs’ opinions (703 469 tokens),(4) Polish language versions of CJ judgments issued following an AG’s opinion (641 188 tokens).To limit the scope of the study and to increase its feasibility, the decision was made to include in the corpus only those AGs’ opinions and judgments which were given in cases concerning actions for annulment of an EU act.There are two reference corpora:(1) a sample of the British Law Report Corpus (BLaRC) (cf. Pérez and Rizzo 2012) which consists of 50 judgments handed out by the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) between 2008 and 2010 (735 338 tokens), serves as a benchmark of non-translated English judicial language against which translated EU judgments are compared, and(2) a corpus of 56 judgments issued by the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland (1 089 817 tokens).All documents in the focus corpus were issued within the time frame of 2020 and 2022 (calendar years), with the only exception of UKSC judgments which were included in a premade corpus available on Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff et al. 2014) and handed out between 2008 and 2010.