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pp.101-112 ; In the wide array of translation activities, one specialised type is the muitilingual translation of the speeches by the Members of the European Parliament during its part-sessions. This kind of translation task might best be handled with a functionai approach, essentially because of its mixed nature: parliamentary speeches in fact belong neither clearly to the oral nor to the written code, but are instead a cross-over between the two. The feature of 'deoralising ' the original text, together with the strongly persuasive character of political discourse in general and the highly conventionalised and international terminology in use in the European Union may be considered as the major factors determining the translator's approach to this particular text type.

This chapter focuses on the intermodal and intralinguistic analysis of Dutch corpora made up of written and oral, translated and interpreted texts taken from the Dutch House of Representatives and the European Parliament. After providing a broad overview of the textual genre (the parliamentary questions), we went into greater detail about the methodology, which combined a quantitative approach based on corpus linguistics and insights obtained from Critical Discourse Analysis. The qualitative analysis was carried out on four levels: register, text cohesion, compound words and immigration terminology. The results showed that, on the one hand, there are a few differences between the three communicative contexts, but also between the oral and written modes. Interesting, on the other hand, are the results obtained from immigration speeches, with more politically correct language in the multilingual context of the EP, and the tendency in interpreted discourses to neutralize or reinforce some ideological aspects of the original discourses.