However and therefore - their occurrence and use in official documents of the EU

Abstract

This thesis aims at discussing two connectives however and therefore. It focuses on their occurrence use in legal and official materials. The main reason why this topic was chosen is the frequent occurrence of these connectives in the language of law and political diplomacy and the fact that the use of these connectives does not always facilitate the reception of the texts and may be confusing at times. The materials used for the following analysis are taken from documents that the Council of the European Union has made available on its websites. These materials include treaties, agreements, legislation in force, preparatory acts, or case law. Treaties and agreement may include annexes and protocols, legislation in force may include acts of law as well as their amendments and addenda, and case law may include judgements, opinions, official speeches, statements, and so on. All these materials have to do with law, business, economy, and all represent a formal or very formal style. The aim of this thesis is to survey the occurrence and use of however and therefore in the particular register. In order to do so, the items under discussion are examined in respect of their formal characteristics and classifications, structure and syntactic description, position in the clause, punctuation, semantics; and functions....

Prace se zaby-va pouzitim vetnych modifikMorU adverbialni povahy however a therefore (dale take j en "konektory", "rp.odifikMory" nebo "adverbiale") v textech zverejnenych Evropskou komisi na webovYch strankach. ledna se zejmena 0 texty pravniho charakteru, jako jsou umluvy a dodatky k nim, protokoly, rozsudky Ci prohlaseni, tvorici pravni ramec Evropskeho spolecenstvi. Prace zkouma vyskyty uvedenych modifikatorU, zaby-va se popisem jejich syntaktickych vlastnosti, postavenim ve vete, interpunkci a vYznamovou slozkou. Krome toho si vsima, zda u.ziti modifikatorU Je opodstatnene, a poukazuje na moznost nejednotne interpretace. Prvni, pfehledova cast cerpa ze zahranicnich i domacich zdroju, ktere se touto problematikou zaby-vaji na teoreticke rovine. Z hlediska formy deH konektory do tn skupin (adverbia jednoducha, slozena a frazova) a zaby-va se popisem na syntakticke rovine. Konstatuje, ze konektory slou.zi ke usouvzta.zneni obsahu vet na rozdil od zaclenenych pnslovecnych urceni, ktere tvon soucast vety. lak uvadi CGEL (613), pnslovecna urceni mohou bYt ~aclenena (adjunkty a subjunkty), nebo nezaclenena (disjunkty a konjunkty). Podle Pro Duskove vetne modifikMory slouzi jako prostredky textove navaznosti specifikujici zpusob, jim.z to, co nasleduje, navazuje na to, co predchaze1o. CGEL dale uvadi, ze oba...