On the Linguistic Argument for the Adoption of the Library Subject HeadingNoncitizen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4220717 |
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| Authors | Laura M Hartwell (0000-0002-8601-4176, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 37-42 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Legal Information (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0731-1265 • E-ISSN: 2331-4117 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/jli.2022.17 |
| OpenAlex | W4312441927 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This linguistic study contributes to the decades-long discussion on the inappropriateness of the Library of Congress Subject Headingillegal aliensby examining its absence in a corpus of US Supreme Court oral arguments and by evaluating automatic translation tool results related to keywords as well as a corpus extract. This linguistic study confirms the ideological bias of theillegal alienssubject heading compared to a plethora of other expressions that legal scholars may use to describe the situations implied under the more neutral umbrella termnoncitizen.The automatic translation results foralienandillegal alienalso support the notion that the termillegal alienis confined to a United States historical context, which hinders its international comprehension as a subject heading
Alien · Comprehension · Geography · Ideology · Library science · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Supreme court · Computer Science · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · History · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Legal Language and Interpretation · Medicine · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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