Patterns of linguistic variation in american legal english: a corpus-based study
Auteur :
Gozdz-Roszkowski, Stanislaw
Éditeur :
Peter Lang AG
ISBN :
9783631615812
Date de publication :
25 mars 2011
Dimensions :
21,0 x 14,8 cm
Poids :
460 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Suisse
Translators, law students or legal professionals who begin to deal with legal language face a bewildering variety of legal writings. This book provides a corpus-based linguistic description of variation among selected legal genres, including vocabulary distribution and use, extended lexical expressions, and lexico-syntactic co-occurrence patterns.