EAN: 9783631615812

PATTERNS OF LINGUISTIC VARIATION IN AMERICAN LE...

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.

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