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Corpus-based research on variation in English legal discourse / edited by Teresa Fanego and Paula Rodríguez-Puente.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in Corpus Linguistics ; 91
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Discourse analysis.
- English language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
- Summary:
- This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the research carried out over the past thirty years in the vast field of legal discourse.
- Contents:
- "Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer?" : english legal discourse past and present / Teresa Fanego & Paula Rodrøguez-Puente
- English and italian land contracts : a cross-linguistic analysis / Giuliana Diani
- Conditionals in spoken courtroom and parliamentary discourse in english, french, and spanish : a contrastive analysis / Cristina Lastres-López
- Part-of-speech patterns in legal genres : text-internal dynamics from a corpus-based perspective / Ruth Breeze
- A comparison of lexical bundles in spoken courtroom language across time, registers, and varieties / Randi Reppen & Meishan Chen
- "It is not just a fact that the law requires this, but it is a reasonable fact" : using the noun that-pattern to explore stance construction in legal writing / Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski
- Are law reports an "agile" or an "uptight" register? : tracking patterns of historical change in the use of colloquial and complexity features / Douglas Biber & Bethany Gray
- Interpersonality in legal written discourse : a diachronic analysis of personal pronouns in law reports, 1535 to present / Paula Rodrøguez-Puente
- The evolution of a legal genre : rhetorical moves in british patent specifications, 1711 to 1860 / Nicholas Groom & Jack Grieve
- The representation of citizens and monarchy in acts of parliament in 1800 to 2000 : identifying social roles through collocations / Anu Lehto
- Drinking and crime : negotiating intoxication in courtroom discourse, 1720 to 1913 / Claudia Claridge.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789027262837
- 9027262837
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