The course aims to provide study materials for and to reflect on the linguistic categories and juridical terminology that represent, in general, the basis of legal language and, in particular, the Spanish legal language. With this in mind, exercises will be scheduled during the course to understand both written and spoken Spanish legal language. This course will be aided by the analysis of legal documents, with particular attention to sentence structure, and the discussion thereof.

The course will focus on the following topics:
1. Los documentos jurídicos
2. El lenguaje jurídico y los lenguajes de especialidad
3. La fraseología
4. El corpus lingüistico
5. Ejemplo de lenguaje anti jurídico 
 

All students must pass Lingua Spagnola Idoneità for Law Students that is Spanish Language Pass/Fail held at the CLA (Centro Linguistic d'Ateneo) before they can access the Spanish Legal Language Exam.

Knowledge and understanding: at the end of the course, the student must have acquired the basic knowledge of Spanish legal language.

Applying knowledge and understanding: the student must demonstrate to be able to apply methodologies, structures and vocabulary learnt during the course and to be able to understand and to analyze a legal text in Spanish language.

Making judgements: the student must be able the knowledge and face different dynamics making their own judgements. 

Communication skills: the student must demonstrate to be able to argue what learnt during the course.

Learning skills: the student must be able to study independently; to understand a Spanish legal text; and to constantly update their knowledge and skills.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

In due course more materials will be made available

Teaching

However there is no obligation to attend , it is recommended strongly participating in the lessons. During the course, the lessons will be accompanied by practical exercises aimed at understanding legal documents in Spanish.

Attendance

Not required

Course books

1. Marta Galiñas Gallén, Gema Rodríguez Cortés, Corpus bilingüe de unidades fraseológicas del lenguaje jurídico, Aracne, Roma, 2015.

2. Mariana Cucatto, “Algunas notas sobre a mayor abundamiento en el discurso jurisdiccional”, V Jornadas de Filología y Lingüística, 21, 22 y 23 de marzo de 2012, La Plata, Argentina. Identidades dinámicas. Variación y cambio en el español de América. EN: [Actas]. La Plata : UNLP. FAHCE. Centro de Estudios de Teoría y Crítica Literaria. Cátedra de Filología Hispánica. Sitio web: http://jornadasfilologiaylinguistica.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/ ISSN 2344-9071

Assessment

All students must pass Lingua Spagnola Idoneità for Law Students that is Spanish Language Pass/Fail held at the CLA (Centro Linguistic d'Ateneo) before they can access the Spanish Legal Language Exam.

The students must pass an oral exam. 

In the oral exam the student will answer some questions related to the topics as indicated in the program.
The expected learning results will be evaluated by means of an oral exam.

The evaluation criteria and the scale of marks are as follows:
•    less than 18: competence level insufficient. The student doesn’t reach the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”;
•    18-20: competence level sufficient. The student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”;
•    21-23: competence level satisfactory. The student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding” and in “applied knowledge and understanding”;
•    24-26: competence level good. The student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding” and “making judgments”;
•    27-29: competence level very good. The student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding”, “making judgments” and “communication skills”;
•    30-30 with honours: competence level excellent. The student fully attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding”, “making judgments” and “learning skills”.
 

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

Self-study.

See materials for attending students.

They should contact the Professor by e.mail.

Attendance

Not required

Course books

1. Marta Galiñas Gallén, Gema Rodríguez Cortés, Corpus bilingüe de unidades fraseológicas del lenguaje jurídico, Aracne, Roma, 2015.

2. Mariana Cucatto, “Algunas notas sobre a mayor abundamiento en el discurso jurisdiccional”, V Jornadas de Filología y Lingüística, 21, 22 y 23 de marzo de 2012, La Plata, Argentina. Identidades dinámicas. Variación y cambio en el español de América. EN: [Actas]. La Plata : UNLP. FAHCE. Centro de Estudios de Teoría y Crítica Literaria. Cátedra de Filología Hispánica. Sitio web: http://jornadasfilologiaylinguistica.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/ ISSN 2344-9071

Assessment

All students must pass Lingua Spagnola Idoneità for Law Students that is Spanish Language Pass/Fail held at the CLA (Centro Linguistic d'Ateneo) before they can access the Spanish Legal Language Exam.

The students must pass an oral exam. 

In the oral exam the student will answer some questions related to the topics as indicated in the program.
The expected learning results will be evaluated by means of an oral exam.

The evaluation criteria and the scale of marks are as follows:
•    less than 18: competence level insufficient. The student doesn’t reach the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”;
•    18-20: competence level sufficient. The student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”;
•    21-23: competence level satisfactory. The student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding” and in “applied knowledge and understanding”;
•    24-26: competence level good. The student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding” and “making judgments”;
•    27-29: competence level very good. The student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding”, “making judgments” and “communication skills”;
•    30-30 with honours: competence level excellent. The student fully attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding”, “making judgments” and “learning skills”.
 

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.