Tag: legal language
2.1 Plug
H. José Plug. (2012). Obscurities in the Formulation of Legal Argumentation. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 2(1), 126-142. Abstract: The Dutch Supreme Court hears grievances against motivations of judicial decisions that are based on the ground that formulations in a motivation of a decision are obscure. It is, however, difficult to determine if […]
2.1 Robertson
Colin Robertson. (2012). The Problem of Meaning in Multilingual EU Legal Texts. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 2(1), 1-30. Abstract: The European Union creates rules of law that bind member states and citizens. The EU, with 27 member states, is multicultural and, with 23 official languages, multilingual. Its institutions produce inter alia legislative […]
2.2 Szantova Giordano
Stella Szantova Giordano. (2012). “We Have to Get By”: Court interpreting and its impact on access to justice for non-native English speakers. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 2(2), 17-42. Abstract: Non-native English speakers find themselves on an unequal footing in American courts. While some of them possess reasonable proficiency in conversational English, almost […]
3.2 Goźdź-Roszkowski & Pontrandolfo
Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski & Gianluca Pontrandolfo. (2013). Evaluative Patterns in Judicial Discourse: A Corpus-based Phraseological Perspective on American and Italian Criminal Judgments. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 3(2), 9-69. Abstract: The present paper aims at exploring the pivotal role of evaluative phraseology in judges’ discourse, typified in the legal genre of the judgment. This […]
4.2 Hu
Pi-chan Hu. (2014). A Study of the Frame of Legal Language. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 4(2), 1-45. Abstract: Why is there always a wide gap between ordinary language and legal language? Do legal professionals and laymen think differently? In this study, we employed categorization theories such as frame semantics, checklist theory and […]
