Dynamic Research on Police English Corpus

Sun Zhijie

Shandong Police College, Jinan, Shandong, 250014, China

Keywords: Police English, English Corpus, Public Security Colleges.

Abstract: International police cooperation has become more frequent with gradually rampant transnational crimes.

Police English corpus is necessary for better adapting to trend of current police cooperation and exchange.

With shallow processing of language materials, police English corpus can accelerate expression of police

English. Establishment of police English corpus should start with improvement of retrieval modes and tools,

as well as Chinese-English bilingual corpus. Thus, police science and English teaching can obtain common

development.

1 INTRODUCTION

With global economic development, more and more

close international communication has brought new

opportunities of world development. Flow of

international capital and goods, as well as

communication of relevant personnel and

information have become more frequently. On one

hand, it lays important foundation for sustainable

development of economy. On the other hand, it

provides a breeding soil of new transnational

criminal activities. Relying on modern transportation

and system differences between countries, the cross-

border criminals tend to fled to another country with

a foreign passport after implementation of crimes.

Border isolation becomes barrier for punishing

criminals by law.

Frequent international police cooperation puts

forward requirement on language quality of police in

China. Training of foreign language (especially for

English) of students in current public security

colleges is not largely different from those in

ordinary higher colleges. The training with little

direction cannot meet requirements of current

international police cooperation. Therefore, it is

essential to establish and improve police English

corpus.

2 NECESSITY OF

ESTABLISHMENT OF POLICE

ENGLISH CORPUS

Policing cooperation between countries contributes

to more maturely preventing and striking

transnational crimes, and greater scope of

international security and peace. Chinese law

enforcement personnel are lack of professional

English in a certain degree. Students in the first two

stages of freshman and sophomore receive basic

English skills without professional police English

knowledge in their English course. Undoubtedly,

with spread of general English knowledge, many

police students have mastered abilities such as

certain English reading and preliminary English

expression, especially for mutual translation

between Chinese and English. But they still cannot

adapt to current practical need of police cooperation

and communication across national borders, because

specialization of police English cannot be replaced

by common English education.

Objective differences exist in law enforcement idea

and way between China and foreign countries. The

differences should be realized in current English

teaching in police colleges. Police college students

should master more specific police English to

communicate with international police. Taking

police English as an approach, students can directly

read foreign books and journals of police for

understanding of development trend of current

international police affairs. Thus, international

policing cooperation obstacle can be gradually

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DOI: 10.5220/0006021101590162

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eliminated due to different national system, police

system and concept.

In the era of reform and opening up, China has more

and more foreigners living and working here.

Therefore, cases in China related to foreigners also

gradually increase. Aiming at such problem, public

security colleges should open police English as well

as ordinary college English courses. Moreover,

police English corpus should be built for

professional support of daily police English

teaching.

3 VALUE OF DAILY USE OF

POLICE ENGLISH CORPUS

In 1975, British linguistics research scholar Baker

proposed that language itself was a kind of half fixed

or fixed language module to be remembered or

processed. Such treatment shows that language use

is a material processing, rather than an isolated

words combination. It can be found from Bakers'

research that language material is the basic

processing unit before language exchange. Only

with coherent or incoherent material combined in

language grammar rules can a complete structure of

expression be formed. Therefore, positive

significance of corpus in police English teaching and

application should be fully realized in formation

process of police English corpus. Especially, the

characteristics should be valued that corpus is

benefit for formation of language and combination

of language structure.

3.1 Expanding Police English

Translation Units and Promoting

Efficiency of Language Expression

Language material, in fact, is a kind of semi-finished

product of language. It can be ideal unit for storage

and extraction in a certain extent, because language

materials tend to have relatively stationary

grammatical structure and stable collocation. Using

of a certain fixed unit is determined by level of

language user. User with relatively low expression

ability tends to use chippy language materials. These

materials, such as single words, can aggravate

memory burden of language users. Therefore,

carrying out police English corpus is important to

research and teaching of police. With systemic

police English corpus, learners can faster understand

and feedback meaning of language materials based

on basically grasping of language material. Time is

relatively urgent in international police cooperation

and communication. There remains no plenty of

time for carving English. Only with complete police

English corpus can police adapt to urgent

international police cooperation.

3.2 Overcoming Back Transfer of

Mother Tongue and Enhancing

Translation Accuracy

Language materials can be presented in

prefabricated form since they have relatively fixed

structure. With memory and extraction, language

materials can be combined in different ways for

better whole translation results. In addition, police

English is different from ordinary English. It has

some international fixed usage, especially for fixed

English expression of professional term in law field.

Thus, translation can be more effective and pure on

the basis of purposefully accumulation for police

English corpus. In this way, police of China can

more easily participate in international police

cooperation with quicker understanding and less

ambiguity.

In the process of using language, mother tongue has

some interference to foreign language, which is

referred as back transfer. Once corpus is established,

back transfer can be avoided. Learners can meet

with little tough problems in the form of extracting

English materials. English expression and translation

can be more fluent. Thus, international

communication anxiety and stress of users can be

decreased, establishment up the consciousness of

international police cooperation with police English

corpus.

4 THINKING OF

ESTABLISHMENT OF POLICE

ENGLISH CORPUS

Establishment of police English corpus needs to start

with concrete methods. In view of professionalism

and particularity of international police exchange,

bilingual corpus in law science should be an

important way to build police English corpus. It is

also gradually focused and valued by academic

circles. Police English corpus is an important

development direction according to concept of

corpus. Corpus is actually for storing real language

materials in daily communication process. It

provides users with language materials more

conveniently. Police English is a newly developed

subject with teaching aim of actual communication

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and application. The practical course requires the

establishment of police English corpus. With corpus,

police can extract language materials for processing

and expression more quickly. Police in China can

adapt to current dynamic and frequent international

cooperation.

4.1 Establishment of Bilingual Police

English Corpus

Establishment of bilingual corpus in law science can

be organized and broken through from police

English textbooks and teaching outline. Although

current public security colleges have opened courses

related to English, these English courses are not

obviously different from those in general colleges.

Besides, a lot of public security colleges use not

unified police English teaching materials in order to

enhance level of students' English application.

Bilingual corpus in law science can fully support

better useg of English from angle of teaching

practice. Through the establishment of police

English bilingual corpus, relevant teachers can

gradually form an effective police English teaching

system with research and exploration. Police English

learners in colleges can receive better language

material and sample. These samples can be

organized and constructed according to local police

English corpus. Specially, police English corpus is

not a pure English corpus. It requires bilingual form

fully combined with standard Chinese expression of

law science and corresponding English expression.

Police English cannot be taught separated from this

kind of combination.

4.2 Developing Learning Tool through

Police English Corpus

After being established, bilingual police corpus can

provide more learning tools for police language, thus

forming more abundant police English language

resources. These learning tools include many

aspects, such as formation of police English

bilingual vocabulary, police English specialized

dictionary and police English online translation

project. All can contribute to formation of police

English corpus. Currently foreign language learning

tools created by foreign language teachers, learners

and researchers are all built on the basis of mature

corpus. For example, BCET originating in 80s of

last century is a large dictionary corpus. Actually,

contemporary large-scale bilingual dictionaries are

all formed on the basis of corpus. In the same way, a

professional police English bilingual dictionary can

be gradually formed only by establishment a mature

police English bilingual corpus. It can be a guidance

to teachers and researchers in people's public

security colleges and English learners. Police

English corpus can be built with material from

various channels, such as current international police

publications, police English books. Such

accumulation and combination of electronic

databases can be better preparation for police

English corpus.

4.3 Further Development of Police

English Corpus around Police

Professional Vocabulary

Characteristics of police professional English

vocabulary should be valued in daily teaching of

police English. Language materials should be

reconstructed in rules of grammatical structure

principle. Police English bilingual corpus provides

abundant retrieval words and a lot of translation

cases between Chinese and English. Such cases help

relevant staff extract materials. Therefore, using

bilingual police English corpus retrieval tools and

methods can more easily form a fixed extraction

mechanism.

Commonly-used words should be firstly adopted as

index for establishment police English corpus,

because such words are closely related to daily

problems. It can be more quickly retrieved in police

English corpus with common vocabulary. Police

English users should be familiar with common

English vocabulary, as well as police English corpus

retrieval methods and tools, so that police English

corpus can function well. Police English learners can

more comprehensively grasp police English through

police English bilingual corpus. And they should

accumulate scientific knowledge of police affairs

and master more standard expression, better

protecting lawful rights and interests of collective

and individuals.

5 CONCLUSIONS

With the development of world, many contemporary

crimes are not purely domestic behavior, but an

international phenomenon. In such conditions,

criminals transcend national boundaries, converting

social problems into international problems.

Countries are impossible to strike crimes only by

their own abilities and permissions. Police

cooperation among nations makes communication

possible, especially in the aspect of prevention and

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fighting with international crimes. Research,

establishment and complement of police English

corpus play an important role in daily police English

teaching in public security colleges. Establishment

of police English corpus can drive research on police

English vocabulary book and development of

relevant search software. On this basis, police

workers can contribute to development of Chinese

police science and law science via the combination

of theory and practice. Above all, formation of

police English corpus plays a positive role in

development of Chinese English teaching and

development police.

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