Patterns of Linguistic Variation in American Legal English: A Corpus-Based Study (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783631615812)

Translators, law students or legal professionals who begin to deal with legal language face a bewildering variety of legal writings. Even though legal language has been examined from a multitude of perspectives, there are virtually no studies explicitly addressing variation in legal English in terms of recurrent linguistic patterns. This book is a first step towards filling this gap. It provides a corpus-based linguistic description of variation among several selected legal genres, including vocabulary distribution and use (keywords), extended lexical expressions (lexical bundles), and lexico-syntactic co-occurrence patterns (multidimensional analysis). The findings are interpreted in functional terms in an attempt to provide an overall characterization of the most commonly encountered types of legal language.

Author: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk,Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski
ISBN-10: 3631615817
ISBN-13: 9783631615812
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Language: English
Published: 03/25/2011
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 0.80d