Tradition And Change In Legal English
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Author | : Christopher Williams |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9783039114443 |
In this volume the author examines verbal constructions in prescriptive legal texts written in English. Modal auxiliaries such as shall, may and must are analysed, as well as indicative tenses such as the present simple, and also non-finite constructions such as the -ing form and -ed participles. Results are based on specially compiled corpora of prescriptive texts coming from a wide range of English-speaking countries and also international organizations such as the European Union and the UN. The author also analyses the nature, extent and impact of the calls for change in legal language coming from the Plain Language Movement. Although legal language tends to be depicted as being highly conservative and unchanging, the author shows that in certain parts of the English-speaking world a minor revolution would appear to be taking place, while in other parts there is greater resistance to change.
Author | : Cornelia Şuş |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 908 |
Release | : 2016 |
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Author | : Marina Künnecke |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2007-08-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 3540486895 |
Administrative legal systems are based on national constitutional legal traditions and cultural values. This book offers a historical and comparative analysis of English and German Administrative law. There is a growing need for comparative material and analysis in Administrative law - this book provides a valuable contribution to this field.
Author | : Helge Dedek |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2021-12-16 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108841724 |
Inspired by comparative law scholar Patrick Glenn's work, an international group of legal scholars explores the state of the discipline.
Author | : Henri Lévy-Ullmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bas Aarts |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 475 |
Release | : 2013-02-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1139619659 |
The chapters in this volume feature new and groundbreaking research carried out by leading scholars and promising young researchers from around the world on recent changes in the English verb phrase. Drawing on authentic corpus data, the papers consider both spoken and written English in several genres. Each contribution pays particular attention to the methodologies used for investigating short-term patterns of change in English, with detailed discussions of controversies in this area. This cutting-edge collection is essential reading for historians of the English language, syntacticians and corpus linguists.
Author | : Christopher Williams |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2022-08-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1000620484 |
This volume offers insights into the ways in which plain language has influenced the language of the law in the United Kingdom, critically reflecting on its historical development and future directions. The book opens with an overview of the theoretical frameworks underpinning plain language and a brief history of plain language initiatives as a foundation from which to outline ongoing debates on the opportunities and challenges of using plain language in the legal domain. The volume details strands where plain language has had considerable impact thus far on legal English in the UK, notably in legislative drafting, but it also explores areas in which plain language has made fewer inroads, such as the language of court judgments and that of online terms and conditions. The book looks ahead to unpack highly topical areas within the plain language debate, including the question of design and visualisation and the ramifications of digitalisation, contributing to ongoing conversations on the importance of plain language both in the UK and beyond. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars interested in the intersection of language and the law as well as related disciplinary areas such as applied linguistics and English for Specific Purposes.
Author | : Teresa Fanego |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-02-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027262837 |
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the research carried out over the past thirty years in the vast field of legal discourse. The focus is on how such research has been influenced and shaped by developments in corpus linguistics and register analysis, and by the emergence from the mid 1990s of historical pragmatics as a branch of pragmatics concerned with the scrutiny of historical texts in their context of writing. The five chapters in Part I (together with the introductory chapter) offer a wide spectrum of the latest approaches to the synchronic analysis of cross-genre and cross-linguistic variation in legal discourse. Part II addresses diachronic variation, illustrating how a diversity of methods, such as multi-dimensional analysis, move analysis, collocation analysis, and Darwinian models of language evolution can uncover new understandings of diachronic linguistic phenomena.
Author | : H. Patrick Glenn |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Previous edition, 1st, published in 2000.
Author | : Jessica Giles |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2018-09-27 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 3319967495 |
This book explores different theories of law, religion, and tradition, from both a secular and a religious perspective. It reflects on how tradition and change can affect religious and secular legal reasoning, identifying the patterns of legal evolution within religious and secular traditions. It is often taken for granted that, even in law, change corresponds and correlates to progress – that things ought to be changed and they will necessarily get better. There is no doubt that legal changes over the centuries have made it possible to enhance the protection of individual rights and to somewhat contain the possibility of tyranny and despotism. But progress is not everything in law: stability and certainty lie at the core of the rule of law. Similarly, religions and religious laws could not survive without traditions; and yet, they still evolve, and their evolution is often intermingled with secular law. The book asks (and in some ways answers) the questions: What is the role of tradition within religions and religious laws? What is the impact of religious traditions on secular laws, and vice-versa? How are the elements of tradition to be identified? Are they the same within the secular and the religious realm? Do secular law and religious law follow comparable patterns of change? Do their levels of resilience differ significantly? How does the history of religion and law affect changes within religious traditions and legal systems? The overall focus of the book addresses the extent to which tradition plays a role in shaping and re-shaping secular and religious laws, as well as their mutual boundaries.