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The Concept of Legal Language: What Makes Legal Language ‘Legal‘?

open access: yesInternational Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 2023
AbstractMany legal theorists and linguists have addressed the notion of legal language from different perspectives. Despite that, the definitions of legal language vary. Almost all of the approaches conclude that legal language entails several types of communication. Nevertheless, not all of these categories are sufficiently researched.
Ondřej Glogar
exaly   +2 more sources

Language and culture in international legal communication [PDF]

open access: yesManaging Global Transitions, 2006
In the contemporary business world, partners belonging to different nations, and hence different cultures, conduct business operations in either the language of one of the parties involved or in a third, neutral language, serving as lingua franca. Thus, language skills, as an essential component of the communicative competence, imply a certain extent ...
Alenka Kocbek
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Entropy in Legal Language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
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Friedrich, Roland   +2 more
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Impact of Legal Status of Data on Development of Data-Intensive Products : Example of Language Technologies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The purpose of this article is to explain the extent to which the legal regime applicable to language data affects the development and use of language technology (LT). The main focus of the paper is on EU law. The article also maps possible text and data
Krister Linden   +19 more
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Terminological features of the Chinese legal language

open access: yes, 2023
In this essay, Chinese legal linguistic features, specifically, the terminological features, are discussed, in terms of the Chinese legislative language.
Cao, Deborah
core   +1 more source

Student centred legal language study [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
The article introduces parts of a self-study programme for LLB (Europe) German students, which include the use of satellite TV and CALL. The whole self-study programme was tested for two years at the Nottingham Trent University. This paper focuses on the
Leahy, C
core   +1 more source

The Role of Culture in Legal Languages, Legal Interpretation and Legal Translation [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 2020
The aim of this short essay is to highlight and concisely explore-but not address in depth-some cultural aspects related to legal languages, legal interpretation and legal translation. We would like to consider briefly the following questions: How can elements of legal language, as exemplified by proper names and euphemisms, be connected with cultural (
Anna Piszcz, Halina Sierocka
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Legal Language and The Legal Translator [PDF]

open access: yesHERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business, 2015
It is impossible to set up standards of translation performance and equivalence which will apply to any legal translation because the "languages of law" are as varied as the cases that reach the courts every day. Moreover, the translation of legal texts is often complicated by the lack of exact lexical equivalents in the TL's own legal system so that a
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Translating Legal Texts into Easy Language

open access: yes, 2021
Legal communication entails experts communicating with lay persons, some of which may have special needs or even a communication disability. In our contribution, we will discuss the results of a pilot project for accessible legal information and ...
Rink, Isabel, Maaß, Christiane
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