Popularizing while Implementing EU Legislation on Environmental Issues

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate popularization strategies in a corpus of Summaries of EU legislation on environmental issues. In particular, the analysis will be divided into two steps. The first step will include the investigation of commitment by the EU towards these issues by means of an analysis of the contextual features of the word ‘environment’ in the corpus under scrutiny. The second step, instead, will be aimed at comparing the summaries with their source legal texts in order to focus on the strategies employed to ‘reformulate’ legal concepts for popularising purposes.