Systematization of false friend collocations in English legal vocabulary
The aim of the study is to systematize collocations containing false friends, characteristic of the English language in the legal sphere, by parts of speech, depending on the word-core of the collocation. The article considers full and partial false friend units according to the volume of the transmitted meaning. The scientific novelty lies in establishing the part-of-speech affiliation of false friend collocations of English jurisprudence. The largest number of combinations belongs to the substantive group, the smallest to the verbal one. A productive model of substantive collocations is the combination of an adjective and a noun. Verb collocations are formed from a verb and a noun. As a result of the study of false friend collocations of legal discourse, taking into account the semantic meanings and grammatical affiliation of the lexical units included in their composition, it was found that the main reason for inaccuracies in translation from Russian into English is the incorrect determination of the part of speech of individual words. Based on the data obtained, it was revealed that the majority of false friend collocations in English law are two-component and contain polysemous lexemes, only one of the meanings of which is present in Russian.
Authors
- Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Pertsevaya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7289-5080)
- Amalia Levikovna Kuregyan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0822-4274)
- Aleksandra Petrovna Kuzmina (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0833-7885)
Institutions
- Samara State Technical University (RU)
- Volga State University of Water Transport (RU)
- Samara State University of Economics (RU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Philology Theory & Practice
- Published
- 2025-06-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.30853/phil20250368
- Primary Topic
- linguistics and terminology studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00