Anna Hakobyan

Yerevan State University, Faculty of European Languages and Communication, Chair of Translation Theory and Practice, Post-Doc

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Supervisors: Honorary Scientist of the Republic of Armenia, Corresponding Member of the Republic of Armenia National Academy of Sciences, President of the Armenian Association for the Study of English, Doctor of Philology, and Professor Seda Gasparyan
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Address: Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, 0025, 1 Alex Manoogian

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Monograph Abraham Lincoln: Persuasion through Language, Facts and Logic

Armav Publishing House, 2019

The given monograph is devoted to the linguostylistic analysis of Abraham Lincoln's political spe... more The given monograph is devoted to the linguostylistic analysis of Abraham Lincoln's political speeches. The deliberate and intentional choice of different linguistic conventions strengthen the objectivity and the credibility of the political argumentation and show the intellectual growth of the public speaker. The linguistic manipulation of the carefully chosen stylistic devices expressed in Abraham Lincoln’s political speeches is remarkably fascinating. Abraham Lincoln is known as one of the most influential public speakers in all over the world. His tremendous speeches still captivate his audience with poetic language and thought-provoking ideas. His eloquent style has made him one of the most admired public speakers in all over the world. The profound examination reveals that Lincoln’s theory of public opinion is reflected through the key principle of persuasion as it inspires people to change their thoughts and behaviour, thus engaging them in a positive mental battle with the speaker. The detailed analyses allow us to conclude that the deliberate choice of the linguistic units form a metalanguage realizing the emotional manipulation of persuasion through the communicative function and the function of impact. The linguistic conventions and the use of different stylistic devices are valuable in satisfying the discourse goals of political speeches and have their important contributions to the success of creating persuasive, inspirational and informative political speeches. It stands to reason that the verbal behaviour of a good public speaker is always intentional and s/he has three primary goals when delivering his message: to inform, trigger and arouse an emotional response and to persuade his audience. Thus, all the facts are in favour of the belief that persuasion has the ultimate objective of influencing people and making them embrace certain beliefs in order that they may either adopt new goals or abandon previous ones in favour of higher value goals as presented by the persuader.

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Monograph Constitutional Speech: Problems of Language and Style (with special reference to the Constitution of the United States of America)

Iravunq Publishing House, 2011

The given monograph is dedicated to the linguistic analysis of the Constitution of the United Sta... more The given monograph is dedicated to the linguistic analysis of the Constitution of the United States of America which is regarded to be the oldest Federal Constitution in all over the world today. More than two centuries, it remained the basic Law of the Federal Government of the United Sates. The Constitution of the United States has had a fundamental impact on many countries around the world, most of which became independent or modern nation states during the 19th and 20th centuries. Its original clarity and simplicity have been an inspiration to many nations who took the presidential system, the bicameral congress and the separation of powers (executive, legislative and judicial) as ideals for their countries. The Constitution of the United States is a very fruitful material for the linguistic analysis. Constitutional Law expert and Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia - the honorable Henrik Khachatryan was the first legal expert who interpreted and translated the American Constitution from English into Armenian. Literate and educated person and eventually a man who tried to root legal culture and the rule of law in Armenian society. In the given monograph an attempt has been made to make a detailed linguostylistic analysis of the American Constitution. We have outlined the most important linguostylistic devices which play a major role and secure the logical cohesion of the entire document. An analogy has been drawn between the English (original) and Armenian (translated) variants of the American Constitution to find out their semantic and structural equivalence.

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Monograph The Stylistic and Structural Characteristic Features of Legislative Texts

Armav Publishing House, 2016

The monograph is dedicated to the stylistic and structural characteristic features of the legisla... more The monograph is dedicated to the stylistic and structural characteristic features of the legislative texts with special reference to the Constitution of the United States of America and the European Convention on Human Rights. It has been conclusively shown that the linguistic analysis of the language of law is a very specific and complex linguistic activity which implies both a comparative study of different legal systems and an awareness of the problems created by the legal terms and other units of language structure. Legal terminology consists primarily of abstract terms which denote concepts deeply and firmly rooted in domestic legal culture and intellectual tradition, and which remains first and foremost a national phenomenon. However, legal language is not just composed of technical terms of a specific terminology. It is rather a formalized entity at all levels, structural in particular. Each legal culture or legal system, however, establishes its own rules how to make a contract or how to draft a law and what essential elements to include, so that the contract or the law could be considered valid - binding and enforceable. The minute linguistic analysis of the object of our consideration comes to prove that drafting legal texts means transferring legal information through language and culture considering the vital role the linguistic nuances play in the legal systems.

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Article Translation Peculiarities of Abraham Lincoln's Political Speeches

Vem Panarmenian Journal, Linguistics N 1, 2023

The research article is devoted to the linguostylistic analysis of Abraham Lincoln's political sp... more The research article is devoted to the linguostylistic analysis of Abraham Lincoln's political speeches. The analysis comes to prove that the stylistic devices and expressive means used by Abraham Lincoln in his political speeches secure the realization of the persuasive message in the triangle of ideology, politics and language. It strengthens the objectivity and the credibility of the political argumentation and shows the intellectual growth of the public speaker. Political discourse is an art of understanding and an art of explaining since the author should find himself in agreement about the ideology of the political message.

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Article On Some Problems of Understanding and Interpreting Legal Texts

Astghik N 17-18, 2007

The research paper aims to answer certain questions raised by the contrasting views on translator... more The research paper aims to answer certain questions raised by the contrasting views on translators' interpretation of legal texts. While interpretation is presented by some scholars as an inherent element of legal translation, others argue that by interpreting, the legal translator sometimes oversteps his authority. A particularly relevant point of controversy turns out to be whether the translator may interpret an indeterminate source legal text in the sense of opting for one of the few possible meanings. The analysis comes to prove that the goal of legal translation is to compensate for the incongruence between two legal systems, the result of which should be a translation that achieves uniform interpretation and application in both source and target legal systems. Hence, the legal translator is an active legal discourse participant who should be competent to interpret a legal text and to resolve linguistic problems.

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Article On Some Peculiarities of Translation of Legal Documents

Astghik N 16, 2006

Language is the veritable tool of the legal profession as lawyer's proficiency is sometimes measu... more Language is the veritable tool of the legal profession as lawyer's proficiency is sometimes measured in terms of his linguistic competence. However, over the centuries, there have evolved a distinct language of Law usually referred to as legal language. Legal language employs specialized vocabulary and complex sentence structures which contributes to its linguistic peculiarities. The research article examines the trend towards the adoption of those linguistic conventions which govern the regularities of legal English discourse.

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Article The Syntactic and Structural Characteristic Features of the Legislative Texts

Bulletin of Yerevan University: Philology N 3 (18), 2015

In the given article an attempt is made to reveal the important role of anaphora in the formation... more In the given article an attempt is made to reveal the important role of anaphora in the formation of parallel structures and paragraphs and account for the wide use of passive constructions as well as of noun + of + noun phrases in the text of the Constitution of the United States of America. The parallel structures which are formed with the help of anaphora, emphasize the expressed idea and the causative-consecutive connection between the sentences, thus providing the clarity, objectivity and single meaningness of the expressions. In the case of passive constructions, the action is viewed as more important, than the agent. It is interesting that preference is often given to the passive constructions even when the agent is indicated. The wide use of noun + of + noun phrases is largely conditioned by the tendency to emphasize the meaning of the utterance and avoid ambiguity.

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Article The Language of Constitution. Some Specific Linguistic Characteristics

Law and Reality, N 9 (131), 2006

It is beyond suspicion that legal English stands as a sublanguage of paramount international impo... more It is beyond suspicion that legal English stands as a sublanguage of paramount international importance. The extralinguistic basis of legal English has nowadays been extended as embracing conflict of overall international, social and political interests. The primary goal of the present article is to examine the nature of legislative English, in particular. The article covers a detailed analysis of some pivotal, challenging and highly significant linguistic issues that deal with the multifaceted nature of legal English based on the comprehensive historic review of legal English. The vital importance of the subject is accounted for by the substantial and decisive role legal English plays in our social life.

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Article The Functional Value of the Attributive Word Combinations in English Legislative Texts

Bulletin of Yerevan University: Philology N 3(24), 2017

In the given article an attempt is made to reveal the main factors which condition the wide use o... more In the given article an attempt is made to reveal the main factors which condition the wide use of noun + of + noun phrases, and the almost lack of the other two types of attributive phrases typical of English, namely, noun + noun and noun genitive + noun in legislative texts. It is argued that the above mentioned is partly accounted for by the requirements of the grammatical norms of English but mainly by the tendency to emphasize the meaning of the utterance and avoid ambiguity.

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Article The Functional Value of Noun+of+Noun Word Combinations in the Texts of the American Constitution

Foreign Languages in Armenia N 3, 2009

The paper is devoted to the study of the functional value of noun +of + noun phrases in the Const... more The paper is devoted to the study of the functional value of noun +of + noun phrases in the Constitution of the United States of America. An attempt is made to reveal the main factors which have conditioned the wide use of these phrases on the one hand, and almost lack of the other two types, namely, noun + noun/ noun genitive + noun, on the other hand. The analysis of the linguistic matertial has shown that the above mentioned is partly accounted for by the grammatical norms of the English language in the 18 th century and partly by the tendency to emphasize the meaning of the utterance and avoid ambiguity.

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Article Scientific English in the Paradigm of the Professional Communication

Foreign Languages for Special Purposes, N 3 (12), 2015

The research paper is devoted to the discussion of some specific linguostylistic characteristic f... more The research paper is devoted to the discussion of some specific linguostylistic characteristic features of Scientific English which are required for the successful professional communication. The analysis is based on informative texts pertaining to the discipline of Medicine. The findings revealed that medical English employs different levels of linguistic analysis to deliver its message. Moreover, the meanings and the messages of the medical texts rely heavily on those specific linguistic features the employment of which secures the academic accuracy of the message conveyed.

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Article On Some Syntactic Issues of the Style of Official Documents

Bulletin of Yerevan University: N 1(127), 2009

The research article is devoted to some syntactic issues of the style of official documents. An a... more The research article is devoted to some syntactic issues of the style of official documents. An attempt has been made to reveal the importance of anaphora in the formation of paragraphs in the style of official documents. It has been conclusively shown that, on the one hand, the use of anaphora outlines and concentrates the reader's attention on the most important semantic part of the message. On the other hand, it is interesting to observe that anaphora sometimes limits the use of substitutional words to avoid ambiguity. Hence, the structure of the paragraphs of the Constitution of the United States is based on two main criteria which replace each other depending on the utterance to avoid ambiguity.

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Article Comparative Analysis of English and Armenian Legislative Texts

Vem Panarmenian Journal, Linguistics, N 4 (84), 2023

Scholarly interest in legislative translation has grown substantially over the recent decades wit... more Scholarly interest in legislative translation has grown substantially over the recent decades with corpus-based approaches contributing much to our understanding of the relationship between translated legislation and source texts, on the one hand, and translated and non-translated legislative texts in the target language, on the other. Basically, legal translator needs three kinds of knowledge: translational, legal and linguistic to adjust his mental models by acquiring more multidisciplinary knowledge and paying attention to the implications that can be drawn from the scientific study of legal language. It follows that those who are mastering translation skills for professional purposes must possess cross-cultural sensitivity which is the knowledge of various legal systems and traditions, familiarity with the techniques of legal comparison, linguistic skills and abilities, intercultural experience and the ability to think outside the box derived from the broad cultural experience.

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Article Syntactic-Stylistic Devices in the Texts of Constitutions

Armenian Folia Anglistika, International Journal of English Studies, 2008

The present research article focuses on the linguostylistic characteristics of the texts of the A... more The present research article focuses on the linguostylistic characteristics of the texts of the American (in the original) and Italian (in English translation) Constitutions. A thorough analysis based on the segmentation of the text has been made in the research article based on major syntax with regard to the bond between the sentence and the supraphrasal unity.

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