TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski
PY  - 2012
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653006599
TI  - Patterns of Linguistic Variation in American Legal English
T2  - A Corpus-Based Study
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-00659-9
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1045669
N2  - 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.
KW  - phraseology, multi-word expressions, lexico-grammar, specialised vocabulary
LA  - English
ER  -