| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 294 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in corpus linguistics, 1388-0373 ; volume 91 |
|
Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 91.
|
| Contents |
"Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer?" : english legal discourse past and present / Teresa Fanego & Paula Rodriguez-Puente -- English and Italian land contracts : a cross-linguistic analysis / Giuliana Diani -- Conditionals in spoken courtroom and parliamentary discourse in English, French, and Spanish : a contrastive analysis / Cristina Lastres-López -- Part-of-speech patterns in legal genres : text-internal dynamics from a corpus-based perspective / Ruth Breeze -- A comparison of lexical bundles in spoken courtroom language across time, registers, and varieties / Randi Reppen & Meishan Chen -- "It is not just a fact that the law requires this, but it is a reasonable fact" : using the noun that-pattern to explore stance construction in legal writing / Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski -- Are law reports an "agile" or an "uptight" register? : tracking patterns of historical change in the use of colloquial and complexity features / Douglas Biber & Bethany Gray -- Interpersonality in legal written discourse : a diachronic analysis of personal pronouns in law reports, 1535 to present / Paula Rodriguez-Puente -- The evolution of a legal genre : rhetorical moves in british patent specifications, 1711 to 1860 / Nicholas Groom & Jack Grieve -- The representation of citizens and monarchy in acts of parliament in 1800 to 2000 : identifying social roles through collocations / Anu Lehto -- Drinking and crime : negotiating intoxication in courtroom discourse, 1720 to 1913 / Claudia Claridge |
| Notes |
Includes papers presented at a "workshop on corpora of legal English and their research possibilities held in May 2017 at Charles University in Prague, during ICAME 38." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 08, 2019) |
| Subject |
Law -- Language -- Congresses
|
|
Law -- England -- Language -- Congresses
|
|
English language -- Discourse analysis -- Congresses
|
|
LAW -- Essays.
|
|
LAW -- General Practice.
|
|
LAW -- Jurisprudence.
|
|
LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
|
|
LAW -- Practical Guides.
|
|
LAW -- Reference.
|
|
English language -- Discourse analysis
|
|
Law -- Language
|
|
England
|
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Fanego, Teresa, editor.
|
|
Rodríguez-Puente, Paula, editor.
|
| LC no. |
2018057855 |
| ISBN |
9027262837 |
|
9789027262837 |
|
