Patterns of Linguistic Variation in American Legal English

Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski

ISBN 10: 3631615817 / ISBN 13: 9783631615812

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Mär 2011, 2011

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Neuware -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. 280 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Patterns of Linguistic Variation in American Legal English
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Mär 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631615817
• ISBN 13: 9783631615812
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 153H x 19D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 478 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski received his MA in English Studies and his PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Łódź (Poland), where he now lectures on English Language and Linguistics. His research interests include legal linguistics, corpus linguistics, register variation and genre analysis, specialist translation and terminology.