Challenges in a Multidimensional Analysis of a Brazilian Portuguese Corpus of Federal Statutory Laws

Carolina Godoi de  Faria Marques; Lucia de Almeida Ferrari; Carlos Henrique Kauffmann

Autori

Carolina Godoi de Faria Marques Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) | Belo Horizonte | MG | BR https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3927-4428
Lucia de Almeida Ferrari Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) | Belo Horizonte | MG | BR https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9855-0646
Carlos Henrique Kauffmann Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) | São Paulo | SP | BR https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8792-7375

Parole chiave:

Multidimensional analysis, LEX-BR-Ius, corpus, methodology, register, legal language

Abstract

This article presents an additive Multidimensional (MD) analysis (Biber, 1998) of the LEX-BR-Ius (Ferrari; Marques, 2022), a corpus of Brazilian federal statutory laws. We first contextualize our research and, in sequence, introduce the MD approach. Subsequently, we present the corpus under study and the Brazilian Register Variation Corpus (Corpus Brasileiro de Variação de Registro – CBVR) (Berber Sardinha; Kauffmann; Acunzo, 2014), to which our corpus has been added, along with a step-by-step description of the methodology adopted. Lastly, we present and discuss the results obtained, the issues that emerged during the research, and their potential explanations.

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