Textkonventionen am Bundesverfassungsgericht auf der Spur - Eine korpusgestützte Untersuchung von Teiltextsorten und Registereigenschaften - ein Buch

Beschreibung

The linguistic form of decisions of the German Federal Constitutional Court remains largely unexplored. In this dissertation, the author undertakes a systematic empirical analysis that combines close readings of individual texts with large-scale computational methods. The foundation is a corpus of around 3,400 rulings from the Official Digest and 6,900 additional decisions of the German Federal Constitutional Court. Special attention is given to text segments such as rubric, tenor, reasoning, statement of facts, admissibility, merits, and the so-called "standards section". These are annotated either automatically or manually and analysed with respect to their frequency, length, and linguistic properties. The findings show that the degree of conventionalisation varies according to type of decision, outcome, and judicial body, with official rulings being more standardised than chamber deci