TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giulia Adriana Pennisi
PY  - 2024
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1424-8689
SN  - 9783034347488
TI  - A linguistic Insight into Legislative Drafting
T2  - Tradition and Change in the UK Legislation
DO  - 10.3726/b20973
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1351132
N2  - The main assumption proposed in this book is that legislative drafting represents an example of professional discourse, where the propositions of specialized information is translated into meanings, and such meanings are given as input to the rules and strategies of grammatical formulation. A relevant question for our understanding of modern legislative process is related to the effects of ‘context’ at different levels, within which legislative process takes place. By looking at those levels, the analysis conducted in the book demonstrates that it becomes possible to reach a deeper understanding of the professional groups taking part in the process, better assess the lexico-grammatical and textual features of its final product (i.e., normative texts), and suggest alternative linguistic and textual strategies aimed at making texts more accessible to potential readers and/or intended users.
KW  - Professional discourse, normative provisions, context, communication, language
LA  - English
ER  -