ENGLISH INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW DISCOURSE: ITS MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

This paper is dedicated to International Economic Law Discourse. By now only one critical discourse analysis work covering this matter exists. Thus, there are no corpus-based researches concerning this type of discourse. At the same time the previous works in corpus-based discourse analysis were taken into account. All these researches study different types of discourse: diplomatic, media, academic, Biblical.This work is a corpus-based research pertaining to the discourse quantitative analysis. The author compares International Economic Law Discourse with press reviews and academic prose. In particular, multidimensional analysis tool, MAT (Nini, 2019), created according to D. Biber’s works (Biber, 1988; Biber, 1989; Biber, 2001) was used in this work to indicate main grammar and stylistic peculiarities of the International Economic Law Discourse in English as this corpus tool operates only with one target language. Furthermore, ANOVA test (Analysis of Variance) was used to interpret the MD analysis results.As a result of this research, we can distinguish such basic grammatical and syntactic peculiarities of IEL discourse: common use of Present tense; second person pronouns, pro-verb do and subordinator that deletion omission; abundance of nominalisations; lack of adverbs; overwhelming use of modal verbs, especially predictive ones (will, would, shall) with a priority for shall; prepositional phrases prevalence; insignificant number of such syntactic constructions as that relative clauses on subject position, WH relative clauses on subject position, existential there; a high level of certainty to be understandable for all Member States representatives who are not, as a rule, English native speakers.