Les marqueurs de reformulation dans le discours judiciaire : approche contrastive français, italien, roumain

Abstract: This paper concentrates on reformulation markers in judicial argumentation and, more particularly, in a parallel corpus of French judgements issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJUE_Fr) and translated into Italian (CJUE_It) and Romanian (CJUE_Roum). These are primarily directive and argumentative texts. To the extent that reformulation markers have a strong explanatory power and can significantly contribute to achieve clarity, we will be dealing with the occurrence and uses of three major categories: (i) inclusion or membership markers, (ii) linking markers that signal equivalences between definiendum and definiens within definitions, and (iii) markers that introduce explanatory exemplification (Preite 2020: 24). Importantly, qualitative data analysis shall enable us to investigate the translation strategies adopted as a first step, and, second, to discuss and assess the impact that French procedural language might have on Italian and Romanian procedural language.