Over the past decade, the idea of using corpus linguistics in legal interpretation has attracted interest on the part of judges, lawyers, and legal academics in the United States. This review provides an introduction to this nascent movement, which is generally referred to as Law and Corpus Linguistics (LCL). After briefly summarizing LCL's origin and development, I situate LCL within legal interpretation by discussing the legal concept of ordinary meaning, which establishes the framework within which LCL operates. Next, I situate LCL within linguistics by identifying the subfields that are most relevant to LCL. I then offer a linguistic justification for an idea that is implicit in the case law and that provides important support for using corpus analysis in legal interpretation: that data about patterns of usage provide evidence of how words and other expressions are ordinarily understood. I go on to discuss linguistic issues that arise from the use of corpus linguistics in disputes that involve lexical ambiguity and categorization. Finally, I point out some challenges that the growth of LCL will present for both legal professionals and linguists.

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语料库语言学在法律解释中的应用

在过去的十年中，在法律解释中使用语料库语言学的想法引起了美国法官、律师和法律学者的兴趣。这篇评论介绍了这一新生运动，通常被称为法律和语料库语言学 (LCL)。在简要总结了拼箱的起源和发展后，我将拼箱置于法律解释中，通过讨论普通意义的法律概念，建立了拼箱运作的框架。接下来，我通过识别与 LCL 最相关的子领域来将 LCL 置于语言学中。然后，我为判例法中隐含的想法提供语言上的理由，并为在法律解释中使用语料库分析提供重要支持：有关使用模式的数据提供了通常如何理解单词和其他表达方式的证据。我继续讨论在涉及词汇歧义和分类的争议中使用语料库语言学产生的语言问题。最后，我指出了拼箱的发展将给法律专业人士和语言学家带来的一些挑战。