Patterns of Linguistic Variation in American Legal English

A Corpus-Based Study

von Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski

280 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Łódź Studies in Language
• ISBN: 9783631615812
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.03.2011
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften