Conceptualization of Contract Discourse for Service Provision
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Abstract
The article considers the conceptualization process in the modern Russian public offers and contracts for the provision of services. The definitions of service in vernacular and legal communication have been discussed, as well as its generic and distinguishing features. Based on the corpus analysis of the contractual documents, the most frequent concepts have been identified. They correspond to the relevant frame structures that determine the conceptual content of the contract discourse for the provision of different kinds of services including counseling, information, audit, accounting, real estate, medical, veterinary, educational, tourist, utilities, communication and other services.
Such procedures as selection, classification and evaluation have been grounded for the analysis of the conceptual and value aspects of the Russian contract discourse content. While combining these procedures with the definition and corpus analysis, the essential features of the “service” concept have been described. The author singles out the phrases with the meaning of action that represent this concept in the contract discourse for the provision of the specified kinds of services; the most frequently used words that collocate with a wide range of others; the free phrases and set expressions that include these words and reveal the relationship between the “service” frame and other relevant frames; there have also been discussed value concepts pertaining to legal, ethical and pragmatic types. The main types of these means include direct nominations of the values in Russian service communication; free phrases and set expressions formed on the basis of these nominations; and metaphors evoking the necessary associations for better understanding and interpretation of the contract discourse.
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