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Legal Cultures — Legal Languages

2009
Language is important. In 1944, allied intelligence in Italy intercepted a German message to an abbey, asking whether the abbot was still there. The answer was in the affirmative. The service, however, falsely took the German word Abt for abbot to be the standard abbreviation for Abteilung (division).
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Legal Language and Legal Knowledge Management Applications

2010
This work is an investigation into the peculiarities of legal language with respect to ordinary language. Based on the idea that a shallow parsing approach can help to provide enough detailed linguistic information, this work presents the results obtained by shallow parsing (i.e.
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Implicatures within Legal Language

2019
This book proposes a novel, descriptive theory that unveils the linguistic mechanisms lurking behind judicial decisions. It offers a comprehensive account of the ongoing debate, as well as a novel solution to the problem of understanding legal pragmatics. Linguistic pragmatics is based on a theory created by Paul Grice, who observed that people usually
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Idiosyncrasies of Legal Language

2023
Abstract This chapter sums up the characteristics of legal language, specific grammatical and terminological features that give the language of the law in general and the language of canon law in particular its specific sound. These features often include the use of a challenging syntax, an excessive use of the passive voice, and an ...
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The Value of the Legal Language

History of state and law
In any sphere of life in modern society, communication plays an important role. The legal sphere is no exception, which is characterized by the presence of its own language with its inherent features due to the specific nature of this phenomenon. However, the value of legal language lies not only in the possibility of exchanging legal information ...
Vladislav Yu. Turanin, Viktoria V. Nesterenko   +1 more
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DISCUSSION ON LEGAL NORMATIVITY AND LEGAL LANGUAGE

Curentul Juridic/Juridical Current
In addressing this issue, we started from aspects related to religious and moral norms and implicitly those regarding the particularities of the norms of conduct of these non-legal spheres, the depth of which gives them greater durability compared to legal ones.The entire institutionalized activity of legal norming is materialized in the normative acts
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Legal Language

2011
The chapter presents the main features of English concerning some key legal concepts. It also includes texts dealing with legislative matters, juridical issues, judgments and relevant comments, as well as the EU legislation.
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Lawformer: A pre-trained language model for Chinese legal long documents

AI Open, 2021
Cunchao Tu, Maosong Sun
exaly  

The Legal Language of India

Science, 1885
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Previous Chinese Legal Language and Communist Legal Language

Monumenta Serica, 1970
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